What's Race Got to Do With It ?
Everything, I suppose.
When you start to think ‘same sex relationships,’ at a safe
remove from race or nationality, it is suddenly a more chilled out zone to be
in.
Although far too much water has now flown under the bridge of inter racial straight couplings to regard it as scandalous; inter racial gay couplings are few and far between, and invite the wrath of all manner of sexualities: straight, gay, bi and what have you.
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That many gay people should also squirm in their hot pants at such new age relationships, is both hard-to-digest as well as slightly off color.
And yet, as history holds testimony: some of the stiffest resentment to change or going against the flow, has come from within the rank and file of the minority underdog. A classic case in point is education for women or their enfranchisement. Or closer to the subject, opposition to gay adoptions from other gays.
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Somehow, all of us tend to live within boundaries. Boundaries as defined by our education, the books we end up reading or NOT reading, the friends we hang out with or the influence of the public house we frequent, on our mentation . While some of us endeavor to keep pushing this envelope of love and loving further and further to include, members of the same sex and members of the opposite sex belonging to different races to our own (although not to the same degree perhaps, or at the same time), we are essentially held captive to our programmed ways of thinking and behaving.
Although far too much water has now flown under the bridge of inter racial straight couplings to regard it as scandalous; inter racial gay couplings are few and far between, and invite the wrath of all manner of sexualities: straight, gay, bi and what have you.
That many gay people should also squirm in their hot pants at such new age relationships, is both hard-to-digest as well as slightly off color.
And yet, as history holds testimony: some of the stiffest resentment to change or going against the flow, has come from within the rank and file of the minority underdog. A classic case in point is education for women or their enfranchisement. Or closer to the subject, opposition to gay adoptions from other gays.
Somehow, all of us tend to live within boundaries. Boundaries as defined by our education, the books we end up reading or NOT reading, the friends we hang out with or the influence of the public house we frequent, on our mentation . While some of us endeavor to keep pushing this envelope of love and loving further and further to include, members of the same sex and members of the opposite sex belonging to different races to our own (although not to the same degree perhaps, or at the same time), we are essentially held captive to our programmed ways of thinking and behaving.
Our real and virtual families and friends become us in matters of dating, courtings and marriages.
So is race still the bigger beast than intolerance toward differences in sexuality?
I should think so. Unless, we keep buggy whipping at racial intolerance we cannot expect tangible progress in the inclusiveness of gays and bisexuals in the mainstream, let alone of inter-racial gay couplings. Nip racism from the bud and you have cracked matters of sexuality for good.
And this is precisely how Zuben got his groove back. When coming out and with whom didn't start to matter anymore.
For the gay hate industry flourishing in the name of religion and culturatti everywhere, here's some street food for thought: Love and Be Loved.
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And this is precisely how Zuben got his groove back. When coming out and with whom didn't start to matter anymore.
For the gay hate industry flourishing in the name of religion and culturatti everywhere, here's some street food for thought: Love and Be Loved.
posted by Men Who Do Cleavages at 9:41 pm
1 Comments:
I especially love that last poster.
BL, are you in Pondicherry? I have a funny story to tell, my very first meeting with the Kuwait Book Club. I was leading, book was Life of Pi, and the first question was did the setting in Pondicherry matter. The answer, of course, was yes, for two reasons, one, the book implied a much more tolerant point of view, and two, the question implies that the answer has to be yes. One Indian woman who had highest status said "Oh no, all of India is like that" and the four other Indian women agreed.
LOL, what can I say? I am not Indian, I don't know Pondicherry, I only know literature. I shut myself up, laughing, you just never know what is going to happen in a book club!
How did your parents like their cruise?
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