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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Edwarda who wrote (31072)	2/17/1999 7:34:00 PM
From: Rambi	Respond to of 108807

Well done, Edwarda! (eom)

To: Edwarda who wrote (31072)	2/17/1999 9:41:00 PM
From: Rick Julian	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

I took pains not to make a moral judgement on homosexuality--I am in no position to judge as I have my own dysfunctions. Instead, I tried to make a "pseudo-clinical" assessment of the behavior, and in my opinion it is an unhealthy neurosis, with unfortunate consequences socially and personally. (I am obviously biased by my heterosexual orientation, and my sense that the world is a yin and yang affair.) I am very aware of my own dysfunctions, and witness the debility they effect in my own life, but I can't imagine taking to the streets in an effort to legitimize them. Instead, I work on correcting them with the hope that I can become more fully functional--at least as I define it in the context of social mores and my own personal values. Have I effected serious change? Baby steps. Will I achieve my goal of full functioning? Doubtful. I know one thing though: I am unwilling to celebrate my dysfunctions even if I miserably fail in my attempt to "correct" them. In the arts I work with gay people on an almost daily basis, and count among my friends at least two gay couples. I accept them on a human level just as I would anyone else. I enjoy their company as much as my hetero friends and sometimes even more, because I appreciate their particular sensitivity, and creativity. I am empathetic toward their struggle, but don't believe their struggle is a simple reflection of societal condemnation. On an anthrobiological level, I think there is a preconscious genetic yearning to be "normal". We all have similar preconscious feelings relating to our "issues." There are some things that simply resonate as being "right", and others "not right".(Yeah subjectivity . . .) On a certain level , I thinks gays sense something is not "right" within. I don't want gay people to change--I think they, like all of us (to some extent), are beautifully flawed. What I am offering is the notion that we should examine the impact of legitimizing homosexuality as "normal", and going so far as to include this notion in school curriculums, and the impact this will have on children. My obeservation of the gay pride movement of the last 15 years is that gayness and bisexuality have become almost fashionable, with many impressionable, and immature young people who would otherwise have not considered it, "taking it out for a ride" because it has an outre hipness. I am concerned such experimentation can produce lifelong sexual identity confusion that can be dangerous, and can further contribute to the instability of the family--at least until the day that bisexuality is an aknowledged norm. I won't stand being cast into the Bigot Bin (not that you have) because of this kind of thinking. I think it is a legitimate argument that is terribly unPC. (Pardon this disjointed ramble--cogent writing takes so much damn time!)