Sunday, May 11, 2008

likely simplicity?

i have to be honest with you. i don't really buy heterosexuality.
whenever i say this to people, they always sort of laugh or disregard me or think i'm trying to be inflammatory-- in fact, whenever i share my thoughts and feelings in general, people seem to react in an extreme fashion. they hoot and holler and crap.
but i mean it when i say it. i just don't buy heterosexuality. it just doesn't seem very ... probable to me. it's kind of like the pied piper: i mean, i suppose it's scientifically possible that someone could play a flute and all the rats in town could follow him out of the city. and more than that, it's a pretty idea.
but is it likely?
i think the idea of heterosexuality-- that we're all born into a set of expectations, the fulfillment of which will naturally give us pleasure-- is a pretty idea. but i've learned in life that nothing is that simple. no one steps into their role that naturally or has such an easy time mapping their desires onto societal expectations. and if they do when they're 15 or 20, then they have a midlife crisis at 35 or 40.
and perhaps the prettiness of the idea alone gives away its improbability: think of other pretty ideas: santa claus, socialism, christianity-- how do we feel about them?

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