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Posted by: theHurtfulTurkey
A real test of a man is if he is willing to scrape a sharpened razor up and down his junk just to please a woman.
Posted by: NewRadical12
Posted by: Fleshjack
Posted by: NewRadical12
I never said they were but that doesn't mean that certain set of lifestyles choices aren't more annoying than others.They're only "annoying" to you because you have been raised in a culture that values opposite-sex attraction and gender conformity and dismisses other forms of expression. If you had grown up in a more enlightened culture that validates a wide variety of expressions of gender and orientation, you would hardly bat an eyelid. Instead of working towards such a culture by challenging your own perceptions of what is and is not "annoying," though, you have chosen the unethical path of legitimating our oppressive societal norms in a blatant attempt to make you feel better about your own lifestyle choices.
Let me ask you, FJ: how does it feel being completely positive that, unlike LGBT individuals, your gender-conforming hetero-blam!- lifestyle will never be attacked or criticized in our society? Feels good, right? That's called privilege. At some point you probably realized that you held this elevated status in society, and realized that there were two possible ways to deal with it.
The first is to make up reasons why your privilege (and the un-privileged-ness of others) was completely justified. This is the path that racists, sexists, and every other stripe of bigot have taken for millennia, and it is nothing new or interesting. This is the path of people who tried to say that Africans naturally had smaller brains, or that they were less evolved, or a different species in an attempt to justify why white individuals should hold privilege over them. It is the path of the people who kept women from independence and power on the grounds that they were naturally submissive or that their brains simply "worked differently." And it is the path, FJ, of people who think that there is something inherently "annoying" or "unnatural" about having sex in certain ways, or having sex with certain types of people, or dressing in a certain way. This path will, no doubt, make you feel better. It will let you have your privileged cake and eat it too, under the delusion that such privilege has been justly earned and that no injustice has occurred in its acquisition.
The second path is that of the thinking person - the one who realizes that societal privilege is, more often than not, not the result of outstanding merit, but is rather the outcome of millennia of oppression and prejudice. The privileged individual who realizes this will, no doubt, feel a slight degree of guilt over being the beneficiary of such oppression, but they will also realize that it is possible to redeem oneself of this guilt by working to eliminate the injustice-borne privilege they have in society. This path is not the easy one, but it is the intellectually honest one and, more importantly, the most ethical.
You have, until now, chosen the first path. You have insisted that the norms of behavior derived from brutish ideas that value gender conformity and hetero-blam!-ity are strong enough to make your own, personal annoyances resultant of their violations strong enough to pass value judgements on those who dare live in a way that acknowledges that there is no "right" way to dress. In doing so, you have reinforced the idea that there are ways of dressing that deserve to be valued over others - a belief that continues to cause distress and discrimination for many. This is completely unjustified.
Please, FJ, actually think critically about something for once in your life.
...Racism is the blue pill?