I’ll tell you a real story from my freshman year in the dorms at a major west-coast University; we had to go around in a seated circle, introducing ourselves. One catch —we had to STATE that we were GAY.
This, we were told by the proctors, was in order to break down stereotypes.
WHAT NORMAL MAN WOULD WANT TO DO THAT..?
As Lenin said, “Some ideas are so stupid that only an intellectual could believe them...”
The original feminist was Betty Friedan, who started the N.O.W. She went to great pains to give the illusion of having been a very apolitical, completely ordinary housewife for years.
It was alllll BS:
She was a Marxist-Leninist who lived in a huge mansion on the Hudson river. She didn’t even have to do housework, instead employing several domestics. She also had an affair with one of the commies who developed the Atomic Bomb with Oppenheimer.
THE ORIGINAL LIMOUSINE LIBERAL/TELLER OF THE BIG LIE
This, we were told by the proctors, was in order to break down stereotypes.
WHAT NORMAL MAN WOULD WANT TO DO THAT..?
As Lenin said, “Some ideas are so stupid that only an intellectual could believe them...”
Well, first of all, try not to write it off as simply being a stupid thing you were told to do. They had a reason for it, and it wasn't some stupid little breaking down stereotypes reason. They could have done that by showing you pictures / video interviews of macho guys who were gay, feminine women who were lesbians, etc,
How long ago did this happen?
What would have happened if you did not comply?
Did you discuss this afterwards with the other guys in the class?
Please don't assume that they are simply being stupid because they are intellectuals. Try to always think of the real reason they are doing this.
The "Breaking down stereotypes" is b.s. - they were trying to change how you think into accepting being gay as normal.
It's just as wrong to force straight people to act gay as it is to force LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender) people to act straight.
One can be gay or whatever in modern society and it's mostly a non-issue. Most people know enough not to harass and/or assault other people, so there really isn't a need to keep pushing this stuff on straight people other than to try to humiliate the straight people into compliance.
I am very sorry that you and the other guys were made to have to go through this - it really was an exercise in being desensitized to being gay, to try to get you to accept it as being normal, and that any resistance by you was futile...
What did you do?
I don't see what the problem is. I wouldn't mind telling people that you're gay.