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So now that National Coming Out Day is over - it was yesterday or the day before or sometime I wasn't paying attention - are we all supposed to go back into the closet? Is this only one day a year you can come out thing going to get as out of control as Christmas? Will there be invitations, ornaments, symbols, colours? Will it be tastefully planned and colour coordenated by gay men?
Isn't that the only point to that sort of thing? Either you're out or you're not, or you have nothing to be out about. It reminds me of how gas stations REALLY REALLY like it when people boycott them because they know that sales will go through the roof the day before and the day after the boycott. Conservatives will like this sort of thing so they know they're not going to get blindsided by random coming-out on the street. Gay activists will like this sort of thing because they're just as effective as any other mass protest/action at drawing attention to everyone.
I think we should have a National Going-In Day. Or a National My-Sexual-Orientation-Is-None-Of-Your-Business-Unless-You're-Not-Busy-Tonight-Wink-Wink-Nudge-Nudge Day.
But that's just me.
Although if anyone can tell me why, precisely, gays and bis have to wear their sexual orientation on their foreheads because we assume that default sexuality is straight even though history is rife with examples of societies where male homosexuality at the least was normal I'd be pleased to know. And I tend to assume that no male in charge of a harem ever minded lesbianism, but that's perhaps also just me.
On a totally OT note, I got all set to write a post about how I've never been poor, and suddenly I feel very poor indeed. Fucking health care. Anyone in a sane country want to adopt me?
Isn't that the only point to that sort of thing? Either you're out or you're not, or you have nothing to be out about. It reminds me of how gas stations REALLY REALLY like it when people boycott them because they know that sales will go through the roof the day before and the day after the boycott. Conservatives will like this sort of thing so they know they're not going to get blindsided by random coming-out on the street. Gay activists will like this sort of thing because they're just as effective as any other mass protest/action at drawing attention to everyone.
I think we should have a National Going-In Day. Or a National My-Sexual-Orientation-Is-None-Of-Your-Business-Unless-You're-Not-Busy-Tonight-Wink-Wink-Nudge-Nudge Day.
But that's just me.
Although if anyone can tell me why, precisely, gays and bis have to wear their sexual orientation on their foreheads because we assume that default sexuality is straight even though history is rife with examples of societies where male homosexuality at the least was normal I'd be pleased to know. And I tend to assume that no male in charge of a harem ever minded lesbianism, but that's perhaps also just me.
On a totally OT note, I got all set to write a post about how I've never been poor, and suddenly I feel very poor indeed. Fucking health care. Anyone in a sane country want to adopt me?
