I think I’m at the point where I can finally understand why they view us as such a threat, but I’ll never be able to respect it. It’s just so fucking dumb, small, myopic, and petty.
Generally, I think it’s a discomfort with what is less commonly experienced and accepted, and an inability to integrate other valid experiences and ways of living into more rigid modes of thought. A lack of self-reflection tends to reduce empathy and acceptance.
Economically, reproduction is the traditional way that communities grow and produce labor. Sexuality becomes a means to this end, with love and pleasure being secondary to child-producing couples. Value is determined by how many people you can add to the community, and individual rights are devalued in this sense.
Socially, the LGBT space occupies its own paradigm of culture. Humans organize around shared interest and bond through shared experience, and the LGBT experience is seen as different enough to produce a foreign competitor.
Spiritually, the fear of offending a cosmic being is compelling enough to simply write off the consideration of integrating other views, especially those surrounding sexuality, gender, and relationships, into an ingrained belief structure. It’s simply too much of a cost in mental work or spiritual reflection to risk even when faced with the cognitive dissonance of supporting togetherness while rejecting the other.
Sexually, there is an intense level of projection surrounding attraction. See: the ongoing and vicious debate surrounding pineapple on pizza. People in general get weird about something that is so deeply ingrained as sexuality, and conservative religions tend to push for what grows the religion and enforces compliance. Sex is a primary control mechanism, and LGBT sexuality falls outside that regime of power.
Why is it stupid and petty and myopic? Because humans are diverse, adaptable, social, and capable. The human rights of everyone should be elevated above having babies, sexual control, and base emotional projection when determining how societies should be organized and laws are written. There is no God judging how we have sex, it’s just other people ascribing astrological power to their feelings so that they can seem more important than they really are. If one does ascribe to a religion, sexuality, or whatever mode of being, they should be free to practice it for themselves, but not to legislate it.
In the end, ordering the removal of a flag at a small monument for LGBT history is about as petty as it gets in my mind. All things considered, I suppose we should be glad that is the level of effectiveness they’ve been reduced to.
I think I’m at the point where I can finally understand why they view us as such a threat, but I’ll never be able to respect it. It’s just so fucking dumb, small, myopic, and petty.
Care to share with the class?
Hooo boy, that’s a long story.
Generally, I think it’s a discomfort with what is less commonly experienced and accepted, and an inability to integrate other valid experiences and ways of living into more rigid modes of thought. A lack of self-reflection tends to reduce empathy and acceptance.
Economically, reproduction is the traditional way that communities grow and produce labor. Sexuality becomes a means to this end, with love and pleasure being secondary to child-producing couples. Value is determined by how many people you can add to the community, and individual rights are devalued in this sense.
Socially, the LGBT space occupies its own paradigm of culture. Humans organize around shared interest and bond through shared experience, and the LGBT experience is seen as different enough to produce a foreign competitor.
Spiritually, the fear of offending a cosmic being is compelling enough to simply write off the consideration of integrating other views, especially those surrounding sexuality, gender, and relationships, into an ingrained belief structure. It’s simply too much of a cost in mental work or spiritual reflection to risk even when faced with the cognitive dissonance of supporting togetherness while rejecting the other.
Sexually, there is an intense level of projection surrounding attraction. See: the ongoing and vicious debate surrounding pineapple on pizza. People in general get weird about something that is so deeply ingrained as sexuality, and conservative religions tend to push for what grows the religion and enforces compliance. Sex is a primary control mechanism, and LGBT sexuality falls outside that regime of power.
Why is it stupid and petty and myopic? Because humans are diverse, adaptable, social, and capable. The human rights of everyone should be elevated above having babies, sexual control, and base emotional projection when determining how societies should be organized and laws are written. There is no God judging how we have sex, it’s just other people ascribing astrological power to their feelings so that they can seem more important than they really are. If one does ascribe to a religion, sexuality, or whatever mode of being, they should be free to practice it for themselves, but not to legislate it.
In the end, ordering the removal of a flag at a small monument for LGBT history is about as petty as it gets in my mind. All things considered, I suppose we should be glad that is the level of effectiveness they’ve been reduced to.