Hi Paul,

Many people refer to the heterosexual experience as
the only "normal" way to live. They don't want to
know anything else. Unfortunately when that happens
it renders any experience that does not fit as
the "other." This "othering" can take the form of social
and economic exclusion. It can lead to violence, bullying,
and often state sanctioned imprisonment and even death.

It enforces gender stereotypes and it hurts not only those
who aren't heterosexual. It also harms those who are by
limiting the options available to them.

For instance, heterosexual men are expected to perform
their gender in a particular way, being strong, emotions
in check and unlikely to explore a greater range of emotions
that may be deemed too feminine lest they thought of as
"not a real man."

These attitudes become problems when they are presented as
the only way of existing. When that happens exclusion
follows. Those who don't fit into the norm are shut out of
social spaces and their issues do not receive the same
amount of attention when it comes to advocacy or lobbying.

Their rights or needs are ignored or deemed not significant
enough. This can be dangerous as well. It privileges certain
lives over others and makes it possible for society to
overlook hate crimes against gay people.

You want crazy? The UK's BBC can give you crazy. Among idiotic mandates for staff - race, colour etc., there is a call for 50% of their "gay" employees to be 'out'. No reason given why only half the the BBCs queers have to out themselves.

The satirical point I was making above is that coming out is no longer a big deal. Same-sex attraction is now normalised. Gay marriage is utterly accepted within the society. Same-sex parents. Same-sex couples are almost obligatory on any movie or TV series which has even a few couples. Kids books go out of their way to highlight two-Dad/two-Mum families.

So someone coming out is now a big yawn. So what? Its no longer abnormal. Its no longer unusual. You're gay? Fine. Get on with your life and we'll get on with our lives.

But that's not how its treated by the anxiously woke. Its not good enough to yawn and move on. We are required to gush and swoon at the imagined bravery of the bloke now out of the closet. We can't just ignore the 5014th announcement. We have to swoon and if we don't we are treated as homophobes.

If they want to come out, fine. I don't care. But there's nothing special about it. Why can't I just ignore it in the same way as I'd ignore some women announcing her first sexual experience.

But its all performance art with these people. Oh look at me...aren't I soooooo brave. Applaud me and if you don't then you're a transphobe.

And then we get the woke like Paul etc who fall for this gumph, furious that others haven't.

It's the opposite of gay

Foxy,
The heterosexual way is the only normal way, any other in not of the norm.

Wow how long has he been in that he has just decided to cum out? Maybe he has some sort of record that is being announced in the media?

"Its no longer abnormal".

Oh yes it is. Changing the marriage act didn't change the absurdity and unnaturalness of sexual activity between members of the same sex. Homosexuality will always be abnormal. We just have to accept that that homosexual marriage is now legal for those who want it. Nothing else has changed.