dangerous generalizations

i don’t claim to really know anything. a lot of the things i say are said just off the top of my head as ideas. i never mean or intend to implicate anything by them. that being said, roommate and i were having a conversation on homosexuality which is now a norm in our everyday life considering where we live and who we hang out with.

both of us are straight, and by straight i mean we’ve only been in relationships with males. sure, we’ve kissed a girl and we liked it, blah blah blah. however, we are both very free-spirited, open-minded people. meaning, we don’t rule anything out, and who’s to say that falling in love with another female won’t happen later in life.

so we’re sitting on our couch watching johnny depp butcher willy wonka in the creepiest most off-putting way, and we begin discussing homosexuality. the gist of our entire conversation is that it’s strange how straight people generalize gay men and lesbian women as homosexuals, when in actuality the two types of homosexuality are very different. many of the lesbian women that i’ve met in my life don’t really like men. they’re not particular on straight women, or it takes more effort and a longer time period to become close because of their association to men. these lesbians that i’ve met are generally disgusted with their past interactions with the male species. whereas gay men (again, the ones i know and love) adore women in an idyllic sense. they don’t want to be with women, but they want to be like them. they take on a certain catty, divalicious persona trying to resemble the most outlandish characteristics they perceive in women.

i don’t know. it’s interesting, and i think a more accurate categorization instead of heteros and homos is men, women and gay men, and lesbian women, but that’s not even getting into transexuals, bisexuals, etc..

why do we label and pre-judge? we’re all just looking for acceptance.