Before the marriage debates started it was easier to ignore the fact that many heterosexual people truly think they are better and their relationships are better.
Exactly. I mean, hell, I've been homophobically abused to my face in the last decade, and spat at for being a dyke in my early twenties. Individual fuckwititude doesn't surprise me. But it is truly interesting how an issue like this, which comes after the advances we have made in so many ways, shows the underlying level of disdain that still remains towards us and our relationships. It shouldn't be a shock to realise the amount of entitlement that privileged groups still feel belongs to them... but hell, this kind of thing truly rubs it in our faces.
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Date: 2008-11-06 12:38 pm (UTC)Exactly. I mean, hell, I've been homophobically abused to my face in the last decade, and spat at for being a dyke in my early twenties. Individual fuckwititude doesn't surprise me. But it is truly interesting how an issue like this, which comes after the advances we have made in so many ways, shows the underlying level of disdain that still remains towards us and our relationships. It shouldn't be a shock to realise the amount of entitlement that privileged groups still feel belongs to them... but hell, this kind of thing truly rubs it in our faces.