Genderbender for thought and discussion:
Hey everyone,
I just though I'd give my opinion on heterosexuality here and feel free to let me know if I fit the definition of 'heterophobic'.
I'm not agnostic in any way, in fact I'm Christian. So I wouldn't dare use some lack of belief to try to judge heterosexual acts morally. Heterosexuality, in most cases, is a consensual relationship that in no way violates the non-aggression principle. In a relationship between two or more people, this is key. Where it is not consensual, it is rape and therefore illegal.
In fact the more I rationalise it, the more I fail to see a problem with heterosexual relationships. So why then do I feel sick when I think of a guy and a girl performing hetero acts? I have rationalised it, jusified it morally and accepted it, but seriously the thought of a guy and a girl going at it really does make me nauseous.
Being presented with heterosexual imagary basically gives me the same feeling as being presented with images of beastiality.
Two of the opposite sex than me? It's strange but not vomit inducing. But not great either.
I'm also not into vaginal sex at all so that's probably got something to do with it (it makes my vagina sore - kidding).
I don't think this is something that I've been taught to find disgusting since it is all around me and my parents are hetero, I think it's built into me (born this way).
It does bother me a little that all of society's structure tells me that what I feel inside is not normal and that I may not be wanted in it. I try to ignore it, but nothing is completely untouched by the normalcy of heterosexual acts and traditions: video games, movie plots/subplots, others talking about their sexual desires, ads for every product you can think of, laws, and even the disgust and hate of others toward feelings and love like mine. Even the traditions that I was raised in, believe in and have grown to love seem to not be mine according to most of society's declarations. They would prefer to ignore I even exist. I am not allowed any ties or heritage. I am a lost soul, not lost in Christ, but lost in the world. It can be hard to make friends due to this too or for others to understand odd feelings like really caring for my best friends of the same sex in ways that I might for friends of the opposite sex. Not sexually, but unconditionally. I mean, what is so wrong with me loving someone? That just because I, me personally, love, that makes the love wrong. Even a similar love to your friends or family, or to your country or favorite game company. Love is important to people, to our life, to our society, to our world. So why is this feeling of care and enjoyment to be around someone, if mutual, and sharing life with that person, in whatever degree, wrong? Why am I, in who I am, wrong and their feeling, however similar, though classified hetero, is right? They would like for me to stop feeling. To stop my natural happiness and joy. To be a stoic robotic tool in society without a personality, aside from a fear of being different to keep it all in check. Anything else, and they make me feel unwanted, undesired, unloved.
I would call a lot of hetero people I've met friends. Some showed blatant signs of their sexuality later than others but nothing changed our friendship when they did. Some are incredibly nice people, though not always understanding, others do try really hard. They have so much confirmation of who they are all around them in society so I understand the struggle it may be to be open to me. Aside from achieving their life dreams of having a family with children, a group of friends to do everything they love, and a job that helps them reach the height of what they can be, these are some of their toughest decisions: accepting others and knowing how to react if they encounter someone different. My toughest decision is deciding if it is safe to go into public and learning to accept myself so that I might have the confidence to be anything at all before I die, which very well might be alone.
So am I heterophobic?