More homeoboxuals
Sep. 5th, 2008 02:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Continuing to watch The Making of Me in bits. JB's genuine emotion when a scientist reckons orientation is determined in the womb is rather sweet. But the best part so far is when he talks (with commendable respect) to the "ex-gay" guy. Firstly, because the narrator explains that John's having trouble finding any "ex-gay" guys to talk to him, with thirty of them turning him down: you can't help but think this is because they figure, in the face of Barrowman Power, their hard-won "heterosexuality" will vanish in about four seconds. >:) And secondly, the reason I'm using so many "quotation marks": the "ex-gay" guy makes it abundantly clear that he is still homosexual. For him, men are like cigarettes or chocolate - something he has chosen to abstain from, rather than something he no longer desires. This brings to mind one of those cartoons where a ravenous character sees the person sitting opposite them as a roast chicken, or in this case, a family-size block of Cadbury's.
Also, Scott pwns.
ETA: The relevance of the "nature or choice?" debate struck me as I rummaged in New Scientist and discovered UK MP Iris Robinson's shameful remarks. Homophobes claim that same-sex attraction is "not natural" and can be "cured". Decades of science knock those claims down like houses of cards. However one may personally feel or what one's church teaches: God made teh ghey.
Also, Scott pwns.
ETA: The relevance of the "nature or choice?" debate struck me as I rummaged in New Scientist and discovered UK MP Iris Robinson's shameful remarks. Homophobes claim that same-sex attraction is "not natural" and can be "cured". Decades of science knock those claims down like houses of cards. However one may personally feel or what one's church teaches: God made teh ghey.