Indoctrination / Doublethinkwoke or no?

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[–]PenseePansyBio-Sex or Bust 15 insightful - 1 fun15 insightful - 0 fun16 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Compulsory heterosexuality is rooted in white colonial masculinity, where systems of white supremacy and patriarchy support the idea that heterosexuality and the gender binary are the norm.

Uh, well, it's not just an idea that heterosexuality is the norm-- it IS the norm! And by a wide margin, at that; the vast majority of people are straight. And I say this as a non-heterosexual myself! Now, we shouldn't mistake its being the norm for being normal (which would make homosexuality and bisexuality abnormal), certainly, but there's no doubt that heterosexuality is the most common sexual orientation. That'd be true even if all straight-passing gay and bi people quit the closet for good.

As for the "gender binary": 1.] gender is determined by biological sex, which is binary in humans, so, yes, this is indeed the norm across cultures and throughout history; and 2.] gender is not only make-believe nonsense, but the basis for the oppression of women and same-sex-attracted people, so who gives a shit about it anyway?

[–]soundsituationI myself was once a gay 10 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 0 fun11 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

We shouldn't mistake its being the norm for being normal (which would make homosexuality and bisexuality abnormal), certainly, but there's no doubt that heterosexuality is the most common sexual orientation.

Hey, I said pretty much the same thing in my comment. I wonder: do they not understand the difference or are they leveraging the ambiguity for political aims?

[–]Dromedary 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Oh, it's totally political bullshit. Clickbaity trendy shit for Yahoo. To look woke and "enlightened" but it's part of the denial of reality that suffuses the whole anti-intellectual "Queer" movement. As PenseePansy says, heterosexuality IS the norm; we gays are the exception, and very rock n' roll that way, lol. The new ideology just deperatelt tries to push that everyone is bisexual and genderfluid and that's simply not true for 99% of humanity, but.. we're in a very strange time.

[–]xanditAGAB (Assigned Gay at Birth)[S] 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

See I agree that heterosexuality is the norm, by a large percentage, but is there any merit in the idea that things like couples are discussed in terms of heterosexuals only? This article is wrapped in woke, but a lot of people believe in the underlying premise. I can see that for a lot of countries in the world where it’s pushed on everyone, lgb included.

[–]PenseePansyBio-Sex or Bust 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yeah, I think this is, unfortunately, quite pervasive: "the norm" here tends to be misunderstood as "normal", and "most people are heterosexual" as "assume everyone IS heterosexual (or, given that it's normal, at least ought to be)". Which, even when it isn't downright pushed on gay and bi people (as it often is), still feels pretty oppressive. Always being an afterthought. At best.

There's a bi-specific form of this, actually: when we have an opposite-sex partner, we're both automatically assumed to be straight. Even if NEITHER of us is. And even if people are aware that bisexuality is a thing. I mean, you'd think that the possibility would at least occur to them, right? But no! It pretty much never does. 1 man + 1 woman = 2 heteros. That's Straight Assumption Math for ya.

Sure, I know that, statistically, odds are this is a straight couple. But can't everyone balance this with the knowledge that... individuals aren't statistics? Mere probabilities? So they wouldn't keep expecting every person to be hetero?

Is that really so much to ask?