Well, here it is. The last day of pride month. Another year passed, and despite all of their best efforts, the vast majority of the world is still straight. For those of you with a dog in this hunt, don't worry. They'll keep trying. There was pride day, then pride week. Then it was a month. I believe their ultimate goal is a Buttigieg regime, officially declaring Year of the Queer. Okay, that's not serious... just low hanging fruit, but know this: there are some who actually entertain these fantasies.
Full disclosure now. I really don't care enough about this to devote a great deal of time to the topic. I'll say what I have to say about it and be done. I have little doubt that there will be some who may be offended, as is their right. As it is my right to say "too bad. sucks to be you." YOU are offended? Huh...that sounds like... a YOU problem. Why are you telling me?
Regarding just the pride month, not the broader LGBT alphabet in all of it's permutations, there is a glaring implication inherent in the whole concept. This implication is really the crux of the whole matter. The implication is this: if you have all of this "pride" for a whole month, what are you doing the other eleven months of the year? Are you able to see that others might conclude that the rest of the year is spent in abject shame? I am not suggesting that this is the case, nor that it should be. It's just that much of the behavior that is passed as a celebration of this pride, is so over the top that it seems to be an overcompensation. Like an atonement, or a penance. Pride could only be an atonement for? Shame?
Worth noting... as it is dealt with in the classical realm, pride is NOT celebrated as a virtue; rather, it is eschewed as a vice. Is pride a quality inherent in the human condition, or is it instilled in our upbringing? Like...shame. How can we know shame inherently? Our factory default setting at birth is Ignorance 1.0. Where can one derive shame from ignorance? It must be taught.
Shame surrounding our sexuality comes from established social norms. These are perpetuated and reinforced by such institutions as family and church. Yet even absent these institutions, these lessons of shame due to the reaction of others will come, nonetheless. In any population where well over 90% are heterosexual, the exhibition of homosexual behavior can NOT be redefined and accepted as the norm. Because it just isn't. No moral judgement, no hand wringing. It is just a statement of truth, no matter how inconvenient it may be.
I understand that the impetus for the whole pride movement is to escape the stigma of shame, and that is not a bad thing. One should be able to be comfortable in one's own skin. No one is stopping you. Really. NO ONE. You do you. Just follow the same respectful traditions of the hetero community: time and place. We don't need your flags in our face all the time. For most of you, the flag is as redundant as Kevin Hart reminding you that he is black, when introduced. We all have eyes, we can see. Your flag doesn't belong on any goverment institution and certainly not in any public schools. At this point, you are doing nothing to help your cause. You are no longer victims. Now you're just one more pathetic attention whore.
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