And it'll be the status quo tomorrow, next year, and the year after that with likely further hardening over time as society continues its blind lurch into the right wing and reactionary policies.Barleymower wrote: ↑Sun Jul 31, 2022 6:55 amThe average straight male will always reject anything that makes him look (in the world's eyes) - gay. Straight woman will reject a man (who she thinks, everyone else will think) is gay. That's the status quo now.
In spite of a 40+ year full-court press replete with propaganda, protests, and whinging, LGBTQ* is still not "the norm", and by the simple numbers never will be. What's wrong with the notion of letting people be themselves without labelling them in ways that they may not appreciate? Because, face it, it's just not important unless you're seeking an intimate relationship. Live and let live and be decent to others. What's so hard about that?If the world accepts that the binary does not exist and by default, everyone is non-binary. LGBTQ+ will become the norm.
Winning the "non-binary argument" is highly likely going to be fruitless in the long run, never-mind the short. Instead of framing it that it's OK for the "non-binary" to wear skirts (but, by implication. not men) merely cuts off an overwhelming section of the demographic. Framing it as a style choice that we all should have is the easier of the approaches -- and it's agreeable to the human sense of fairness.The group that needs to be won over is the women. If they decide it's ok for men to wear 'their' clothes. If the door is opened on gorgeous fabrics and styles, men all over will dive in. Imagine that, a world were we all can wear whatever we want without prejudice. This is bigger than just men wearing skirts, win the non-binary arguement and the rest will follow.
I'm with Stevie on this one, I'm not going to go down without a fight and they can pry my skirts from my cold dead fingers once the fight has gone out of me.