A new annoyance

[lydy]

There's an argument that idiots use when arguing about whether or not homosexuality is a bad thing, unnatural, etc., that totally drives me spare. It's the argument that homosexuals do not have children. This argument is usually in conjunction with the argument that homosexuality is not genetic, but rather a choice, since it could not possibly be passed on in the genes.

To which I want to say, "Hello! Sitting right here! Eldest of four, and my father was a homosexual. What the fuck are you talking about?"

The idea that homosexuals don't have children is weirdly, massively wrong. Quite aside from the various technological possibilities now available, I suspect that homosexuals have been busy having kids since as long as there were, you know, people. There is the incredible social pressure to marry and have kids. Many people have married and procreated with people they didn't particularly care for. Some of them were homosexual. And the drive to have children isn't tied to sexual orientation. Lots of people have had sex with partners they didn't particularly care for in order to procreate. This is one more way to try to ignore the real, lived complexity of people's lives. And it attempts to erase me. Which really, really pisses me off.

Comments

[lydy.livejournal.com]

Well, but everybody knows that gayness was invented in the '70s. I remember it well...

I had forgotten that nobody ever committed suicide (except for Sylvia Plath) but that, too, was a part of my childhood. Mine was particularly weird on the mental health front because the fundies believed that mental illness was really just sin, and that any attempt to get treated for mental illness was an attempt to avoid dealing with your sinful nature.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Gayness, suicide, drugs--everyone knows drugs were invented in 1968, which leaves a lot of unanswered questions about the 1920s, but still, everyone knows it, so there we are.

It was a busy time then.

[bibliofile.livejournal.com]

So very busy! I'm surprised that anyone at all had children, frankly.

(oy.)

[apostle-of-eris.livejournal.com]

dayum! If the fool had patented it, he'd be as rich as facebook!