Rob Tisinai explores the lame homophobic claim, "If everybody was gay the human species would die out." The only way he can see that argument making sense is if the one pushing it were stoned on weed.
What prompted me to tell you about it is the comments others left on the post (which is on two separate blogs). The first one wrote that even if the entire planet was gay, if there is alcohol around there will be babies. Even without alcohol enough gays and lesbians will want to be moms and dads that arrangements would be worked out.
The second one, Dave, wrote:
What I love most about the “if everyone were gay” line is the unspoken fear that it might actually happen. It’s flattering that homophobes think homosexuality is so gosh-darned unbearably awesome that, the minute we let gays and lesbians marry / raise children / not be arbitrarily fired from their jobs, the whole world will be unable to resist the temptation to go gay … It’s also fun to imagine that the only thing preventing any two straight guys from doing each other is that they can’t get married and adopt kids afterwards.
Ben wrote that in a planet where everyone is gay we would have these benefits: fewer abortions, no unwanted children, less need for adoption services, no homophobia as social control and scapegoating.
A couple weeks ago I spent some time on Mackinac Island. There are a lot of shops selling t-shirts, many of them rather rude. That included the shirt with the slogan, "I love boobies." I doubt the majority of their sales were to lesbians. The whole world gay? We'll deal with it when it happens.
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