c20H25N3o said:
Most men I know are what you would term as the 'second lot'. These are peace loving men with wives and children. Heterosexual men who feel no need to assert their sexuality. Indeed to assert your sexuality when you are married and settled and are trying to raise kids, would be a little inappropriate to say the least because for you the dance of courtship is over.c20
The second lot is of transgendered men. peace
You are very mistaken if you think that most men are in the 'second lot' (I'm sure you mean the third lot). I don't know men you know, but you can't be living away from the rest of the humanity.
Most men, believe me are not in any of the three lots described above. They are just not heterosexual or near the thing. They have a sexual desire for women, but they also have a sexual desire for men --- + are inclined to bond with men rather than women.
We do tend to think that the the rest of the world is like us (you can't blame me for that, because I'm speaking here based on by work experience -- not by indivisual experiences...alone!), especially, when the rest of the guys outwardly seem to be, well....like us. We wouldn't know anything about what they are going through in reality because on the outside they are wearing masks --- masks, that we know nothing about, because we never had to wear them, and we don't even know exist. So we, in all sincerity believe those masks to be the true face of those men. Time to see the reality!
c20H25N3o said:
Let us not despise the young men for whom the dance of courtship and the display of peacock feathers is all part of growing up. These same young men will put away their feathers at the appropriate time also.
What I'm most concerned about is the young men --- the majority of them go through immense hardships in order to fit themselves into these masks. And this is coming through my work experience. Trust me, as I have trusted you with what you've told me about yourself. (I think we do carry this mutual wavelength!)
c20H25N3o said:
There is no harm other than in your mind. Sure you will have the odd case of homophobic rage but in cases such as these, the homophobia is used as an excuse for a person's rage full stop. My challenge to you is to be objective. Tell me something positive about the dance of courtship that young men display, that display of their feathers so proud.
You are blissfully ignorant of what pain people go through and have been going through (for centuries). I have seen it all. And I'm full of anger. That I'm still being logical and open, is something I should be given credit for. You are asking me to trust that everything I have seen so far is unreal? years and years of work, meeting thousands and thousands of men from all walks of life. Why don't you for once, come out of your limited individual experience and talk to a few people on this board who have been on the receiving end. The dance of courtship that young men display will start looking meaningless to you, when the others are burning to sustain that dance.
You could only accuse me of not being objective if I were just speaking in the air or out of my individual experiences (as I can accuse you of!). My points are up for discussion, and you can bring in all the evidences or other stuff (need not be scientific or even logical!) that can show that it's all in my mind.
And once again, my suggestion to you is to disown the heterosexual identity and just be a natural man, if you don't want to be hurt. Because, my fight is against the heterosexual ideology. And it would help if you stop seeing the world divided between heterosexuality and homosexuality and see my fight as that of homosexuality and my enemy as 'homophobia'.
I can't forever go on explaining these things to you, if you stubbornly refuse to see what I am saying!
c20H25N3o said:
My challenge to you is to be objective. Tell me something positive about the dance of courtship that young men display, that display of their feathers so proud.
I have seen one dance of courtship that young men often display that you have no idea of. But it's done in fear of the society, and very very discreetly -- such intense is the dance, yet so disceet that it becomes irritating at times. But it still is beautiful. So beautiful that it is worth fighting the society for!