My Thoughts on Heterosexual Privilege (I have to pee...
...but someone is in the bathroom. I could go down the stairs to the other side of the house, but that would be way too much effort. Instead, I will pass the time explaining how much I hate people.)
A link entitled "Defend my right to treatment for unwanted attractions" caught my attention today as I was perusing the National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexualiy. NARTH purports that conversion therapy can change one's sexual orientation.
*good the bathroom's open*
/having to pee
Anyway, they have stories up about petitioning the American Psyciatric Association to allow therapy for those who want to change their sexual orientation. They argue that homosexuals should have freedom from unwanted attractions. It's the old freedom from/freedom to argument. I want the freedom to be treated as full fledged citizen and human being. For me, I lose rights if it is "scientifically" proven that homosexuals can change their orientation. That's my bias. What I'm saying, though, is that people wouldn't want to change their orientation if society didn't treat homosexuals as second class citizens.
And, furthermore, why is there no one who wants to become homosexual? Is it because the natural order of things is that everyone is heterosexual...or rather because no one wants to be beaten to death against a barbed wire fence?
Why would someone want to change their orientation so that they can lose rights? Were anyone to want to do this, the whole foundation of heterosexual superiority would crumble.
Let's not kid ourselves, many attempt to fight a transexual's right to change their sex, especially if the person in question is a male who feels he is female. Because that destroys the power structure where men are viewed as the natural superiors. If a man wants to become a woman (a second-class citizen)...well, in many minds that cannot be possible. There must be something psychologically wrong with that man because he is giving up his male privilege.
Here's where I'm going with this. It makes sense that Michael Jackson would want to change his skin color to something lighter (whether or not he did...it's a good example). It makes sense that a woman would want to become a male. And it makes sense that a homosexual would want to become heterosexual.
Society cannot handle that someone would want to go from a superior group to an inferior (in social status, not intrinsic value) group. This convoluted arguement comes down to just this for me:
I am a happy homosexual that wants his right to marry, the ability to dress and speak freely without fear of persecution, and the right to LOVE WHOMEVER I HAPPEN TO LOVE. Is it really of national importance that I'm kept from being a real boy?
(The 2004 Congressional Budget Office has found that the federal government could save over $1 billion just by allowing homosexuals to marry.)
A link entitled "Defend my right to treatment for unwanted attractions" caught my attention today as I was perusing the National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexualiy. NARTH purports that conversion therapy can change one's sexual orientation.
*good the bathroom's open*
/having to pee
Anyway, they have stories up about petitioning the American Psyciatric Association to allow therapy for those who want to change their sexual orientation. They argue that homosexuals should have freedom from unwanted attractions. It's the old freedom from/freedom to argument. I want the freedom to be treated as full fledged citizen and human being. For me, I lose rights if it is "scientifically" proven that homosexuals can change their orientation. That's my bias. What I'm saying, though, is that people wouldn't want to change their orientation if society didn't treat homosexuals as second class citizens.
And, furthermore, why is there no one who wants to become homosexual? Is it because the natural order of things is that everyone is heterosexual...or rather because no one wants to be beaten to death against a barbed wire fence?
Why would someone want to change their orientation so that they can lose rights? Were anyone to want to do this, the whole foundation of heterosexual superiority would crumble.
Let's not kid ourselves, many attempt to fight a transexual's right to change their sex, especially if the person in question is a male who feels he is female. Because that destroys the power structure where men are viewed as the natural superiors. If a man wants to become a woman (a second-class citizen)...well, in many minds that cannot be possible. There must be something psychologically wrong with that man because he is giving up his male privilege.
Here's where I'm going with this. It makes sense that Michael Jackson would want to change his skin color to something lighter (whether or not he did...it's a good example). It makes sense that a woman would want to become a male. And it makes sense that a homosexual would want to become heterosexual.
Society cannot handle that someone would want to go from a superior group to an inferior (in social status, not intrinsic value) group. This convoluted arguement comes down to just this for me:
I am a happy homosexual that wants his right to marry, the ability to dress and speak freely without fear of persecution, and the right to LOVE WHOMEVER I HAPPEN TO LOVE. Is it really of national importance that I'm kept from being a real boy?
(The 2004 Congressional Budget Office has found that the federal government could save over $1 billion just by allowing homosexuals to marry.)