sara@select said:
If find it liberating to hang out at Pride in your lacy panties on a dog collar you are MOST certainly gay!
I don't think so ...
I think that most of the things we consider "right" and "wrong", "normal" and "abnormal", etc. etc. including "gay" or "straight" was and is programmed into us by society. We were all brought up thinking in a dualistic mode. Something is either this or that and nothing else. And yes, I find these "pre-programmed" modes of dualistic thinking as an infringement on my liberty and freedoms to be an individual. As such, I think that one can even bring sexuality into perspective and just because we wear women's clothes, or wear something around our neck "intended" for pets, it does not make us any less "masculine" then we really are, or less of a human being then we really are.
And BTW, even the notions of "masculinity" and "femininity" have also been "forced" into our mentality since we humans began to think in this dualistic fashion.
I mean come on, being "gay" is nothing new. The Ancient Greeks accepted it as the highest form of "friendship". And since this is the 21st century, why can we not regard "gay-ness" as just another perspective of looking at things?
PS - Troops, thanks for your concern ... I am a changed man on TERB too ... I guess I went through the exact phase you did ...