What LGBT should/shouldn't do
July 5, 2015 at 5:52 pm
(This post was last modified: July 5, 2015 at 6:54 pm by Metis.)
I've been having this discussion elsewhere with other people I know for a while, and seeing how frequently LGBT issues tend to appear here lately I thought I'd ask what you guys thought about it.
I work in a university within a theology/religious studies department and we have a little project going with an e-mail address where students can ask any question anonymously and we'll try to answer it from a number of perspectives. So "what is communion" would get answers from several different denominations.
One Catholic girl asked because of the rise of same sex marriage was it a sin to be alone with another woman now (Catholics have a mostly unfollowed rule that men and women who are unrelated by blood or marriage cannot be in a room alone together, because people might think they're having sex). Now after the laughter died down it actually raised a few interesting points.
Take gym changing rooms for instance. The very idea of having separate rooms for men and women is so they don't start gawping each other right? Is it right for a gay man to use a mens changing room? Certainly there's nothing stopping him and most men won't care, especially if they don't know he is but should he still be using it because it really goes against the idea of having separate changing rooms? Have to say I actually did stop going to the gym when I realized I was into guys and I bought stuff to train with at home for this reason, nobody ever spoke to me about it, just something I decided myself.
Comes up again with pre-op transexuals in the bathroom, just because you may have decided you are of the other sex mentally is that enough to make it right to use the other facilities? I don't doubt that transexuality is an actual thing like the religious, I think the people who decide to transition are actually rather brave but sometimes I do wonder if they (as several other minorities do) ask a bit much from the rest of mainstream society.
I know this seems a bit longwinded but...Not from any religious perspective, or even from any legal requirement since there aren't any but are there some things LGBT should not do, not because they're going to pounce on someone in the bathroom but because it may cause other people discomfort? There's nothing banning Hindus from burning shit for their rituals but most don't do it in public because they realize not everyone wants to watch. It's actually for this reason I dislike pride parades, not only does it seem to reinforce the stereotype that all gays are butch lesbians or limp wrists but it pushes our rather vocal community on people who may not be homophobic, but just don't wanna see men in neon hot pants. Hell, I don't even like seeing that so I'm not surprised concerned christian types don't want their children to.
What do you think, should they hold back a little in certain areas, have you ever done so?
I work in a university within a theology/religious studies department and we have a little project going with an e-mail address where students can ask any question anonymously and we'll try to answer it from a number of perspectives. So "what is communion" would get answers from several different denominations.
One Catholic girl asked because of the rise of same sex marriage was it a sin to be alone with another woman now (Catholics have a mostly unfollowed rule that men and women who are unrelated by blood or marriage cannot be in a room alone together, because people might think they're having sex). Now after the laughter died down it actually raised a few interesting points.
Take gym changing rooms for instance. The very idea of having separate rooms for men and women is so they don't start gawping each other right? Is it right for a gay man to use a mens changing room? Certainly there's nothing stopping him and most men won't care, especially if they don't know he is but should he still be using it because it really goes against the idea of having separate changing rooms? Have to say I actually did stop going to the gym when I realized I was into guys and I bought stuff to train with at home for this reason, nobody ever spoke to me about it, just something I decided myself.
Comes up again with pre-op transexuals in the bathroom, just because you may have decided you are of the other sex mentally is that enough to make it right to use the other facilities? I don't doubt that transexuality is an actual thing like the religious, I think the people who decide to transition are actually rather brave but sometimes I do wonder if they (as several other minorities do) ask a bit much from the rest of mainstream society.
I know this seems a bit longwinded but...Not from any religious perspective, or even from any legal requirement since there aren't any but are there some things LGBT should not do, not because they're going to pounce on someone in the bathroom but because it may cause other people discomfort? There's nothing banning Hindus from burning shit for their rituals but most don't do it in public because they realize not everyone wants to watch. It's actually for this reason I dislike pride parades, not only does it seem to reinforce the stereotype that all gays are butch lesbians or limp wrists but it pushes our rather vocal community on people who may not be homophobic, but just don't wanna see men in neon hot pants. Hell, I don't even like seeing that so I'm not surprised concerned christian types don't want their children to.
What do you think, should they hold back a little in certain areas, have you ever done so?
