Sunday, August 23, 2009

why gay movement is hateful and discriminatory

Here is an interesting thought. Let's say you live in 1900s where women in united states cannot vote and there is a movement called "let's allow white women to vote". This movement explicitly did NOT include minority women. Anyone other than white supremacists would ask why this movement only covers white women? what about black, asian, hispanic, and native american women? The answer from "let's allow white women to vote" activists is that there are more white women and white women are the major so let's worry about the majority first and maybe we'll revisit later about minority women's rights to vote. For now, let's worry about the "important" group i.e. white women." Wouldn't you say this movement is a hateful, discriminatory, racist movement that reaffirms white society's degrading views on minorities. what do you mean by "let's worry about the majority white women?" huh? why can't the movement include all women? wouldn't you fervently against this movement because it's so called discrimination in mask?

well, same exact thing with gay movement. There are many other groups than gays who currently cannot get benefits as married couples. For example, an 80 year old lady and her 60 year old daughter who where never married. The mother and the daughter live together in the same apartment, contributing money to sustain themselves. They depend on each other in a partnership, and they love each other in the mother-daughter way. How they depend on each other and support each other are exactly the same as heterosexual or some gay couples do. But currently they do not get any benefits married couples or civil unioned gays get. Nothing. I.e. they are treated worse than gays if you take gay's argument. Another example are 2 old sisters living together. They are never married to anyone else, and they are not incestuous lesbians i.e. they are just living together as 2 sister would. Supporting and depending on each other. They don't have any of the rights traditionally married couples or civil unioned gay couples do. In other words, there are many other groups who have the same plight and have met with same or worse discrimination than gays do. Yet the gay movement deliberately ignored them just like in my example the "let's allow white women to vote" movement deliberately ignored minority women. By forcing majority of americans to accept gays' definition of marriage, it still does not at ALL address the need of other discriminated groups. The mother and daughter and the 2 sisters obviously cannot get married and they don't want to. Why should they suffer because they are in a non-sexual partnership? By not including them in the solution gay movement offers in essence is discriminating them the same way the "let's allow white women to vote" movement is discriminating against minorities. And that make gay movement hateful and biased.

if gays are not a bunch of hateful and discriminatory bigots, they, instead of proposing to change the definition of marriage which does NOT help the mother/daugher and 2 old sisters groups, would and should push for a more balanced solution by revisiting why our nation is distributing benefits and rights based on marriage or even civil unions. Even if gay marriages or civil unions are fully allowed, 2 people will still have to in essence f*ck each other in order to get benefits/rights. Why do 2 people have to f*ck (whether heteralsexually or homosexually) in order to get beneifts and rights? why can't gays push for giving benefits based on any partnerships even non sexual ones? In french domestic partnership is granted to people like mother/daughter and 2 old sisters. Just like people asked in my example why can't we have a movement that allow all women to vote which address the suffrage issue for all women I ask why can't gays come up with a solution that addresses the inequality of all groups? If the "let's allow white women to vote" activists insist there is no way to include minority groups in their movement I must say they are either stupid or hateful. And this is what I say about gay activists because their solution only caters to their need while ignoring and discriminating the others just like "let's allow white women to vote" solution.

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