U.S. slams 'conservative gender norms'

WND ^ | Dec. 28, 2013 | Steve Peacock

[Slyfox]

Thank you.

[Billthedrill]

If a "strong normative preference for heterosexuality" is antithetical to U.S. goals in the area, whatever they are, then maybe those goals ought to be what is under scrutiny here.

Words have meanings. "Norm" is heterosexual by so far a margin that it is scarcely worth pointing out except to people who want the word to mean something else. Neither does the word "deviate" carry a cachet of "gender" bigotry - that which deviates from the norm, is, well, deviate. That's it. That's what the word means.

It does not surprise me that an administration this taken with life in Fantasyland should indulge itself in this sort of semantic juggling act. However, let me make a simple observation: if health problems result from one sticking one's generative organ into someone else's rectal channel, perhaps the cause of those problems isn't bigotry. Just a thought.

[Campion]

Has America figured out that she’s accursed of God yet? He’s going to make it more and more obvious until it’s unmistakable.

[Smokin' Joe]

It is obvious the Government wants a more receptive population for their policies.

BOHICA.

They do not represent me when they spew this sort of crap.

[savagesusie]

Do you actually think that parents 50 years ago would have allowed public schools to sexualize their children and put vile ideas into their heads about sodomy and telling children it is “Good” and that all families are the same-—like two daddies and two mommies.

It erases Christian Ethics and Reason and understanding of Natural Laws (common sense)——flips Good and Evil....

Satire/no-—but it should be.

[GeronL]

I know, even 10 years ago this would have been seen as crazy stuff

[firebrand]

Soon there will have to be new children’s books: Richard Has the Same Parents He Always Had, Susie Has No “Other Home” to Go To, Clyde Has No Half-Brothers or Half-Sisters, Jackie’s Grandma Is Happy with How Her Grandchildren Turned Out. We were cracking ourselves up with these on Christmas. Wish I could remember them all.

[Gene Eric]

>> This sounds like satire to sane people

Excellent.

[tanknetter]

Words have meanings. "Norm" is heterosexual by so far a margin that it is scarcely worth pointing out except to people who want the word to mean something else. Neither does the word "deviate" carry a cachet of "gender" bigotry - that which deviates from the norm, is, well, deviate. That's it. That's what the word means.

In looking at the statement "conservative gender norms related to sexuality and strong normative preference for heterosexuality," people may missing the real point here. It's not in the use of "norm" that really matters, but in "normative".

In analysis, "normative" is the companion of "positive". Positive means objective and based in fact. It must be testable and provable.

Normative means values-driven and opinion-based. It's subjective in nature.

So looking at the statement again, the proper way to interpret it is as saying that a societal preference for heterosexuality isn't rooted in provable, objective facts - it's opinion and values based.

In doing so it essentially tosses the notion that human sexuality is based on the biological drive and need to procreate/reproduce in order to perpetuate the species right out the window. "Heterosexuality" is simply a preference that society has chosen to adopt as a values-based standard. Not something that is hard-wired into (most of) us out of biological necessity.

[LibLieSlayer]

Beautiful and perfect for today.

[txrefugee]

Our dwindling tax dollars at work, messing with the cultures of other countries who still have a shred of the common sense and decency that we had before the ungodly took over America.

Hopefully, their leaders will tell us to keep our money and leave them alone.

[ourworldawry]

“Obama agenda won’t tolerate ‘preference for heterosexuality’ in other countries”

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And that is supposed to “mean something”....How?