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- From: scott@bbx.basis.com (Scott Amspoker)
- Newsgroups: soc.motss
- Subject: Re: Congratulating (het) parents on their new baby
- Message-ID: <2@bbx.basis.com>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 19:30:15 GMT
- References: <Bzo2DH.DFx@cs.columbia.edu>
- Organization: BASIS International, Ltd., Albuquerque NM USA
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- In article <Bzo2DH.DFx@cs.columbia.edu> ji@cs.columbia.edu (John Ioannidis) writes:
- >[het couple wants a medal for making a baby]
-
- You touched on one of my occasional ponderables. Do you want this to
- be a serious thread or can we have some fun and blow off steam?
-
- >So here are my questions:
- >[...]
- >2. Is there something intrinsic to be proud of on the part of the
- >father? The only thing he has proven so far is that he has a working
- >reproductive system.
- >
- >3. WRT #2 above, is the father being congratulated on his bedroom
- >prowess, and the mother on being fertile? (Of course, it could be
- >congratulating the father for putting up with his wife, and the mother
- >for actually going through the trouble of having a baby, but I somehow
- >doubt that this is the case).
-
- Male heterosexual pride is an enigma. Since heterosexuality is supposed
- to be a natural, inevitible thing (like breathing), why would a heterosexual
- feel like he/she accomplished something by copulating and making a baby?
- Certainly, the female endured tremendous physical stress throughout the
- latter part of the pregnancy. But what about the male? Well, we occasionally
- get little revealing tid bits from the heterosexual community (with the
- homophobes being their primary mouthpiece). First is the common claim that
- sexual orientation is a chosen thing. (Actually they claim that
- homosexuality is chosen. However, if you can choose to be gay then you
- can choose *not* to be gay which means that sexual orientation is chosen.
- Keep in mind that "choice" implies different things in different contexts.)
- On the other hand, homosexuals (with rare exceptions) believe that sexual
- orientation is innate. Why can't homos and hets see eye to eye in this
- issue? The answer is simple, each side is speaking from its own unique
- perspective. Homosexuals know that *their* orientation is innate while
- hets know that *their* heterosexual orientation is not.
-
- Next data point: Being raised in a society where heterosexuality is
- crammed down our throats from cradle to grave and homosexuality is
- practically kept invisible, homosexuals still grow up as homosexuals -
- without any encouragement to be homosexual. Yet when someone proposes
- bringing homosexuality into the open and educating people about it
- we hear the 'phobes rant about how this will promote homosexuality.
-
- Final data point: Het men act as though mating was an achievement of
- some sort. This would imply that they had to work at it in some way.
- Attracting a female is rather simple actually and even homosexual men
- find women coming on to them without even trying. So what did they
- have to work at? Why would they rather "be with the boys" than be
- with the little wife? What exactly is "male bonding"? (It sounds like a
- pack of dogs running around sniffing each others' buttholes.)
-
- Let's summerize:
-
- 1. Heterosexual orientation is the result of deliberate, conscious
- endeavor (i.e. one definition of "choice").
-
- 2. Heterosexuality requires full institutionalized support with
- complete suppression of homosexual ideas.
-
- 3. Het men want to be congratulated for achieving heterosexuality.
-
- I think what we have here is a concept of a natural, default homosexual
- orientation and the question of "choice" to accept the orientation or
- work at suppressing it in favor of acceptance in society. When one meets
- with a level of success at this all-consuming process it is understandable
- that he will want his dues, an announcement in the newspaper, his special
- rights and priviledges, or at least a congratulatory greeting card.
-
- P.S. - I said let's have some fun. Of course I believe in *true* Kinsey 0's
- and 1's and wish them great, hot sex with their opposite gendered partners;
- free of anything to prove or wear like a badge. As they know, sex is its
- own reward.
-
- --
- Scott Amspoker |
- Basis International, Albuquerque, NM | Too bad ignorance isn't really
- | bliss. Then it could be outlawed.
- scott@bbx.basis.com |
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