I Am Normal Not Phobic

I Am Normal Not Phobic

Let me get one thing clear before we go any further - I do not have any phobias and homosexuality is not normal. There, I've said it, come out of the hetero closet and declared my orientation as a man who likes women who quite often like me as well.

Why did I feel the need to express myself this way? Go public with my sexual preferences like this? Expose myself to the possible ridicule and exclusion from society?

Well quite frankly I am fed up with hearing that being true to my sex, preferring to press lips with a woman than with a man, and daring to enjoy being legally bindingly married is somehow abnormal. Some sort of a perversion which must be stamped out in favour of living in a same sex relationship with a child who was conceived by donor rather than nature.

Do the proponents of this alternative life style really believe that us straights should go along with a concept that throws preservation of the species through male female bonding out of the window? Did Noah really get it wrong when he loaded his super sized rowing boat with one of each kind? Should he have boarded same sex couples two by two and stashed a healthy supply of donated reproductive material below decks to assure post flood recovery?

Before you ask, no I am not a religious fanatic pointing to the bits in the bible that foretell hell and damnation to anyone who does not occupy the leafy suburbs in heterosexual harmony. Neither am I about to poke fun at men who mince in bum hugging pants or close cropped women who swagger in loose fitting boiler suits. We all have our quirks, that's fine, it's what makes the world go around.

My point is that I will not be told that something which goes against everything I see around me as provided and promoted by Mother Nature Inc is all wrong. Neither will I will be forced into accepting a behaviour which in my opinion is adrift from everything I learned during my dating years.

Let me put it another way - no pun intended. If you saw someone walking along the road with two heads and three arms would you think that was normal? So then how would you feel if you dared to speak up about your feelings only to be declared body-phobic? Well for one thing a phobia is an irrational fear and your reaction would be anything but fear. It would an instinctive comparison between what you thought of as normal - one head and two arms will do just fine - and what you saw coming the other way.

I hope that you would not point rudely with one of your two arms and make fun of the other person just because he can shake hands, scratch his nose and point you in the right direction all at the same time. And by the same token I would also hope that the manually advantaged citizen would not criticise you for being dexterously challenged.

Can you see where I am coming from? There are norms and there are norms. One set is founded in history and based upon millions of years of evolution which show that two genders - not the same - getting together to create offspring works pretty well. The other set wants to believe that they are also the way to go and that everyone should go along with their way of living, which admittedly does no one any harm but just doesn't feel right to us 'straights'.

So how about it guys, or is that gals? Or maybe both? Well, whoever. Why don't we just agree that what you do is not normal to us, and that for you our point of view is not the product of some neurotic phobia? And if you want to get married, well that's up to you, but please don't show us the honeymoon pictures, that would be too much detail.



	Let me get one thing clear before we go any further - I do not have any phobias and homosexuality is not normal. There, I've said it, come out of the hetero closet and declared my orientation as a man who likes women who quite often like me as well. Why did I feel the need to express myself this way? Go public with my sexual preferences like this? Expose myself to the possible ridicule and exclusion from society? Well quite frankly I am fed up with hearing that being true to my sex, preferring to press lips with a woman than with a man, and daring to enjoy being legally bindingly married is somehow abnormal. Some sort of a perversion which must be stamped out in favour of living in a same sex relationship with a child who was conceived by donor rather than nature. Do the proponents of this alternative life style really believe that us straights should go along with a concept that throws preservation of the species through male female bonding out of the window? Did Noah really get it wrong when he loaded his super sized rowing boat with one of each kind? Should he have boarded same sex couples two by two and stashed a healthy supply of donated reproductive material below decks to assure post flood recovery? Before you ask, no I am not a religious fanatic pointing to the bits in the bible that foretell hell and damnation to anyone who does not occupy the leafy suburbs in heterosexual harmony. Neither am I about to poke fun at men who mince in bum hugging pants or close cropped women who swagger in loose fitting boiler suits. We all have our quirks, that's fine, it's what makes the world go around. My point is that I will not be told that something which goes against everything I see around me as provided and promoted by Mother Nature Inc is all wrong. Neither will I will be forced into accepting a behaviour which in my opinion is adrift from everything I learned during my dating years. Let me put it another way - no pun intended. If you saw someone walking along the road with two heads and three arms would you think that was normal? So then how would you feel if you dared to speak up about your feelings only to be declared body-phobic? Well for one thing a phobia is an irrational fear and your reaction would be anything but fear. It would an instinctive comparison between what you thought of as normal - one head and two arms will do just fine - and what you saw coming the other way. I hope that you would not point rudely with one of your two arms and make fun of the other person just because he can shake hands, scratch his nose and point you in the right direction all at the same time. And by the same token I would also hope that the manually advantaged citizen would not criticise you for being dexterously challenged. Can you see where I am coming from? There are norms and there are norms. One set is founded in history and based upon millions of years of evolution which show that two genders - not the same - getting together to create offspring works pretty well. The other set wants to believe that they are also the way to go and that everyone should go along with their way of living, which admittedly does no one any harm but just doesn't feel right to us 'straights'. So how about it guys, or is that gals? Or maybe both? Well, whoever. Why don't we just agree that what you do is not normal to us, and that for you our point of view is not the product of some neurotic phobia? And if you want to get married, well that's up to you, but please don't show us the honeymoon pictures, that would be too much detail.