| > It's quite possible you have a really good reason for the anger that came across in your comment. Anger? This is news to me. I think you may be reading a lot more into my two lines than are actually there. > I understand these subjects can stir powerful emotions, and I'm sure you have a valuable perspective to share on the matter - it's hard to tell, though, from such a curt and seemingly confrontational comment. My own emotions regarding the matter are anything but powerful - which explains my resultant near-total apathy about it quite plainly. Confrontational it was, though. I'm rather tired of people reciting platitudes as if close personal bonds to one's immediate family are universally beneficial. In many cases, it's far more destructive than helpful, yet people insist. Society should endeavor to reject mindless duckspeak when possible. To be clear, it's nothing to do with my own family circumstances, I just think it's incredibly rude to assume that some one-size-fits-all attitude is something to be espoused to random strangers as if you could possibly know better than them how to interface with their own family— A simple case of inappropriate presumption. |
It seems to me that while we have deconstructed certain normative ideas (e.g. that everyone should be heterosexual), there is no general interested in pursuing a truly liberal agenda where people define for themselves who they are and how they want to live, rather than live by arbitrary rules.
What is happening is that the old rules are now being replaced by new rules. And people who break these rules are no longer called degenerates, they are called autists.