Re: Nobody WANTS a Gay kid
by
maxo
06/19/2008, 11:56 AM
EveHallowsAll
Okay.. let's look at the two sides.
1) You are part of a subculture that experiences a high degree of prejudice from the main population. You are occasionally unhappy because you are gay and have to either hide who you are or be excluded from various social activities, church, possibly the military. While you are growing up in school if you show who you are, your life will probably be hell. So you stay silent and here very nasty jokes about who you are and various anti gay slurs that you pretend to go along with.
You find out your parents had a series of shots that made you gay.
2) You are part of mainstream society. You can do just about anything you want except take part in gay activities (and actually you can experiment and do that if you want to try it out). You are occasionally unhappy for random reasons but never "because" you are straight. You never suffer "anti -straight" prejudice or slurs.
(The closest parallel would be if you are a swinger type or a kinky type who has to closet your true sexual needs and has a tougher time finding a mate. OTH, so much kinky stuff has become "normal" now that it is not the issue it used to be. You really only have the fundamental challenge between the deep love/intense sex you can get committing to one person vs the tremendous wild hot sexual pleasure/variety of having multiple partners.)
So anyway, you find out your parents had a series of shots that made you straight.
In which case do you think it is more likely that the person is going to be pissed off at their parents? If it were me, in case #1, I'd say WHAT THE HELL WERE YOU THINKING? I would feel betrayed and hold my parents responsible for all the hell i went through in high school if I found out that they chose for me to be an outsider who is in a tiny group of 1-3% of the population.
There is a difference between working with what you are dealt (Ah well, I'm randomly gay and I'm proud of it.)