Posted on 08/15/2005 5:33:11 PM PDT by lexfreedom
The myth of the heterosexual family August 15, 2005
DONOVAN SLACK'S Aug. 12 news story ''Thou Art No Romeo" reveals a great deal about our culture's commitment to sustaining the myth that the heterosexual nuclear family is the only acceptable unit for adult couples, despite evidence to the contrary.
The story discloses that the beloved and deeply partnered swans at the Public Garden are (gasp!) both female. Although homosexual behavior is well documented among animals, a person in the story describes these two swans' behavior as ''lunacy." Which is crazier, accepting basic facts or attempting to deny evidence that the world does not fit into your view of how it should be?
Furthermore, this detachment from reality extends to a Parks Department spokeswoman who confesses that when children ask her, ''Which one's Romeo and which one's Juliet?" she doesn't want to ''spoil" the ''fairy tale" by telling them the truth.
Can't we do better than telling our children lies to save ourselves from facing reality? We claim to be protecting our children, but up to a third of the youths who commit suicide are gay or lesbian. Could it be because they can't imagine fitting into our fairy tale? That's a tragic price to protect a myth.
SHERYL BARNES Cambridge
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LOL!
VERY insightful...I liked the smirk, it fit perfectly!
You really have to check out this spoof on "The Sixth Sense"..called "The Seventh Sense"...
http://www.ifilm.com/ifilmdetail/2404708
I got a good laugh out of this one...but it is relevant to this thread!
The losses in potential dildo sales are staggering.
Sheryl, go . . . . . um . . . . . go fist yourself.
Or a 15 year-old. Or both.
Ok, let us assume that it is true that one third of teenage suicides are homosexuals. Since homosexuals are only about 3% of the total population, would that not lead one to believe that homosexuals are already predisposed to mental illness resulting in irrational behavior, ie: suicide.
I have seen such activity, interestingly it was among waterfowl. Ducks specifically. Ducks do not strike me as very intelligent - they have a strong libido in the springtime but don't have the smarts to tell the difference between male and female ducks. The male ducks basically jump on anything that looks like a duck, regardless of gender, and hope for the best. I should note that these trysts look very violent, with the penetrating male jabbing the neck of his male or female partner with his beak very violently. If I had to compare it to human behavior, I'd say these ducks are rapists. Yet this is "natural." This is why it is so silly to use animal behavior as justification for human behavior. Lots of nasty behaviors come naturally to animals - does that mean people should emulate them?
In the original Globe story, they noted that the city typically gets female swans only because male swans may be too aggressive towards tourists, etc...
But then again, given that it was a Globe story, they could have been making that up.
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