[ SECRET POST #340 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #340 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

Posting for Shahni! And early because I've got pseuicide class.

Secrets Left to Post: 06 pages, 150 secrets from Secret Submission Post #049.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 1 2 3 4 ] broken links, [ 1 2] not!secrets, 0 not!fandom.
Next Secret Post: Tomorrow, Wednesday, December 12th, 2007.
Current Secret Submission Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

Re: 27: A theory on all the recent yaoi posts

[drworm.livejournal.com]

I certainly care about as much about someone's orientation as I do about their favorite anime.

Oh you do not. I wish people would stop treating sexuality like it's incidental in society. It isn't. It's huge. And we make impressions based upon it: we look at how feminine or masculine a person's appearance and behavior are, we speculate about sexual partners, we discuss crushes and dating and marriage, we make jokes about sex, and we used marginalized orientations as insults.

I'm incredibly queer and I'm homophobic because I was raised, as we pretty much all were, in a society where heterosexual norms are praised and homosexual norms as laughed at, ignored, or rallied against. But I'm willing to acknowledge those biases, examine where they came from, and try to overcome them. But anyone who says they have no biases is simply not aware of them. Moreover, it's a little insulting that something affecting my day-to-day life doesn't rate much higher than my taste in fictional characters (which affects pretty much not a damn thing). I hear it being compared to physical traits, like hair and eye color too, but that's also disingenuous; people comment on my hair and eye color all the time, positively and negatively. People notice this shit and it affects their opinions.

The point is that, no, we are not a point where it's all just innocent preference, and I am deeply suspicious of anyone who has to whine on and on about how they can't find anything that hasn't been touched by the gay, since obviously something touched a nerve there.

Re: 27: A theory on all the recent yaoi posts

[farasha.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, I certainly do. It is frankly none of my business unless I am actually trying to date the person in question, and even then it's only my business for as long as I pursue them (or not). My sexuality is therefore nobody else's business. Yes, I personally care as equally about "I write Death Note yaoi" as I do about "I am a lesbian." Yes, I certainly know my friends' sexualities, but we didn't introduce each other by saying "Hi, I'm X, I'm gay. You?" I found it out gradually just like I found out everything else about them.

How would you like people to start treating sexuality, if you don't want them to treat it like it's incidental? I think that's the best way you could possibly treat sexuality. You have brown eyes, you have freckles on your nose, you're gay (or not). Nobody has to know about your sexuality unless you actually tell people about it, and so while I know firsthand, absolutely, what it is like to experience discrimination, I have a lot fewer problems than I used to when I would scream my opinions from the rooftops.

Maybe I'm an anomaly. But I can certainly hope - fervently hope - that if I maintain this long enough, other people will see that I'm actually happier this way, and everyone else might possibly get a clue. Live and let live works both ways. Gay people don't want straight people discriminating against them? Yeah, and straight people don't want rainbow flags and pink triangles shoved at them wherever they go.

EDIT: Replying with my real journal, because replying with an RP journal while discussing a serious topic is extremely not classy.