Who sympathizes with homosexuals the most in our society?
1. Women
Women sympathize with homosexuals’ plight more than men do. Whether they’re mothers or sisters or neighbors or co-workers, they sympathize.
What does it mean to sympathize? In my mind, it means to relate to another’s situation and in turn your own actions are affected by this emotional connection to the other person(s). Now, to relate doesn’t necessarily mean to relate sexually. It can simply be relative to the gay / lesbian’s very generalized, very abstract “plight”. Which leads us to…
2. Media
The homosexual’s strongest ally is the secular media. Gays / lesbians lives make for money-making stories much more so than straights. And besides, straight families are so 1950s. Women, more than men, are per / dissuaded to look at the world and themselves a certain way with the right amount / quality of media influence in their lives. I find that the more educated women are, the more susceptible to these deceptions they actually become. Keep in mind, that I’m only talking about my own personal observations.
In contrast to that statement, many women would argue that it is only through their understanding of the media that they have found themselves to be free from the tyranny of disillusionment and ignorance.
Gay men, also fit into this mold. Similar to women, media has a powerful influence on their opinions, interests, etc. I honestly believe that there are many, many more gays / lesbians having active sex with same sex partners today than 50 years ago because of the proliferation of media’s influence within their lives.
Just how many gay men are out there who don’t watch television?
Most do because they take great comfort in being affirmed in their choices. We men feed off of both affirmation and challenge. Speaking of affirmation…
3. Political correctness
Here in Mississippi, saying the word gay / lesbian in public (or even semi-public) is not acceptable. To make an assumption that someone is homosexual is fraught with political incorrectness.
I remember being invited to a Christmas luncheon years ago and talking with a gay man who repeatedly referred to his partner as a “roommate”. It was quite bizarre.
Because we’ve allowed ourselves to be backed into a corner regarding this, there’s the tendency to gloss over the obvious simply in order to avoid the nasty truth. I believe this is the case with many of my neighbors relative to the lesbians. I wrote these women a letter a few months back and even found myself hesitant to use the word “partner” in an effort to not offend.
In the past, active, visible homosexuals were shunned and indistinguished by their off putting private sexual behavior OR the individuals were positively identified as no more than friends of the same sex.
In the ‘hood I grew up in, my parents were friends with a man from our church who lived with another man. There was absolutely no question that these two men were straight. In fact, few people ever wondered. This is not the case today, though discussing it, for many, is off limits. This mentality serves the active gays / lesbians beautifully. Especially if they’re willing to connect with their neighbors. After enough time passes, everyone’s wholly ignoring the elephant in the corner of the room whilst pretending to find distinguished qualities within the same sex couple as if they were no different than everyone else.
In summary, women have played / continue to play the primary role in normalizing the active homosexuals’ life due to the lies they’ve chosen to accept as truth and through their innate ability to sympathize with gays / lesbians through their emotions.
It’s hard to imagine there ever being a shortage of this.
