Why not make sexuality into a party! This is just my point. Sexuality is a mundane, everyday part of life. Celebrations are for achievements, for special occasions. You can celebrate your 1,000th orgasm, or your marriage, or the legalization of shaven testicles. But don't cheapen the word by using it to acknowledge something as boring as a sexual preference.
Gay Pride Yeah, that's another one which pushes my buttons. What contest did you win to become gay? What's to be proud of? To my mind, it makes as much sense to be proud to be left-handed, or a natural red-head or proud to be born black. Pride is reserved for things you have earned, not things you were born with.
Reminds me of that old joke, that some gays are born that way, but the rest are just sucked into it. Either way, it's nothing to be proud of. Or ashamed of.
And here's where grammar and politics butt heads.
It's called the Gay Pride Parade, but what it really is is a celebration of the achievment of a dramatic shift in public acceptance of homosexuality. Being gay is ho-hum. Convincing the world to change its attitude towards gays is a Big Deal, and something to be proud of and celebrate.
BTW, pride isn't necessarily a vice. A vice is something you're addicted to. I think you're thinking of the Catholic mantra of it being one of the Venal Sins. Or maybe the Arthurian version of it being the first of the 7 Deadly Sins. A sin doesn't become a vice until you can't stop committing it.
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Date: 2005-03-21 06:07 pm (UTC)This is just my point. Sexuality is a mundane, everyday part of life. Celebrations are for achievements, for special occasions. You can celebrate your 1,000th orgasm, or your marriage, or the legalization of shaven testicles. But don't cheapen the word by using it to acknowledge something as boring as a sexual preference.
Gay Pride
Yeah, that's another one which pushes my buttons. What contest did you win to become gay? What's to be proud of? To my mind, it makes as much sense to be proud to be left-handed, or a natural red-head or proud to be born black. Pride is reserved for things you have earned, not things you were born with.
Reminds me of that old joke, that some gays are born that way, but the rest are just sucked into it. Either way, it's nothing to be proud of. Or ashamed of.
And here's where grammar and politics butt heads.
It's called the Gay Pride Parade, but what it really is is a celebration of the achievment of a dramatic shift in public acceptance of homosexuality. Being gay is ho-hum. Convincing the world to change its attitude towards gays is a Big Deal, and something to be proud of and celebrate.
BTW, pride isn't necessarily a vice. A vice is something you're addicted to. I think you're thinking of the Catholic mantra of it being one of the Venal Sins. Or maybe the Arthurian version of it being the first of the 7 Deadly Sins. A sin doesn't become a vice until you can't stop committing it.