Ouch, poor guy. Day 2 of intense 'same-sex relations in ancient Rome' research and I'm not sick of this topic yet! Fascination + amusement = endless fun. Apparently back in the good old days, it was more shameful to be a fellator (ahem, give head) than to be a passive homosexual (be a penetrated male. If you still don't understand, come on, I'm not doing any more explaining). So um, how many people in our society do you think would have been shunned back then?
I have to say, reading these scholar's articles on the topic is slowly doing my head in. Only because I can't tell whether they themselves are pro-LGBT rights or con-. But I'm presuming (which I really shouldn't be doing, going on zero concrete evidence and massive stereotyping) that they are con-, because they lived in the old times, and most scholars are conformists. Okay major stereotyping going on here. I mean, some of them say, who are we to judge, how do we know that we're not wrong by repressing homosexuality in our society, and all that. But, although in our society there is a bit of a taboo surrounding LGBT issues, I sense that some people have to repress their anti-LGBT rights views for fear of being..well massacred.
Our world is full of waves of movements such as the LGBT rights campaigns, and the women's rights campaigns that slowly there is this obsession with doing the right, moral thing. And if you go against these ideas, you're immoral, you're a pig, you're anti-liberal. Etcetera, etcetera. How do we know if you actually want the transgender community to be treated well, or if you're just going along with it to maintain an image of your moral compass?
I can't say much, there are a lot of things that I think I believe in, but in situations of crisis, I've had to re-evaluate my views and find that I actually believe in the 'anti-moral' view. For example (and please, Henrietta Barnett and Frances Mary Buss, wherever your spirits may be, rest in peace..i.e. DON'T KILL ME FOR THIS) I am no feminist. I know, being a woman, I should be out there fighting for my own rights. And I do want my own rights, I'm not saying we shouldn't have them. I'm just of the view that women might have to accept that men are, by nature, better at some things than we are. That doesn't stop us from trying, and doesn't mean there won't be some women who are better at men at those things, but in perspective, you have to be realistic. Men and women are different. That's why (heterosexual) relationships can be hard – we just don't get each other, sometimes. Like, leaving the toilet seat up, having an obsession with making the beds, not expressing your deeper emotions, crying your eyes out into his shoulder... All this mumbo-jumbo hurts both our heads.
Now, into the dank cave that is my life.. went shopping yesterday and bought some halloween gear. I bought my first lipstick! (yeah, late, I know) And then last night I smushed it mistake, by putting the lid down when the lipsticky bit was still up.
BarryM, shade 141.
Quote of the day (from yesterday) comes from mine and EC's conversation. She stuck her middle finger up at me, so I shouted 'Don't finger me!'. And then I realised.
Haha.
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