Days I did not hear about a LGBT/woman/minority in a place you "would not" expect them - 0. It never got above zero. Who should I scream "Yes, we know!" to?
However, as an LGBT person I do also feel some fatigue in this regard. But in my case, I think the source of that fatigue is mainly my Facebook feed, not HN.
Does this sort of thing really help anyone?
(OP's article does attempt to reframe the typical practices of the time and make them "fit" the modern egalitarian view, but note how even in their own account it's always the older, more dominant member of the pairing who is said to "love" and "care" for his younger and more submissive partner. This is clearly the same sort of highly skewed arrangement that is well known from ancient Mediterranean cultures.)
Only modern _homosexuality,_ though, is burdened with the requirement to prove that its historical antecedents were somehow more egalitarian than the norm for its time.
Yes, that's pretty much what I said. Hence also the historical focus on socially sanctioning heterosexual sex via marriage, and on the family's role in carefully vetting prospective marriage partners. It clearly didn't go as far as modern "consent culture" towards solving the issue, but it was a rough attempt.
Marriage and prison bitch have very different connotations to us. To an alien...these are all in the sphere of coupling relationships. Ultimately, a 4th century peasant marriage, 19th century marriage, a 1950s American marriage and a modern, suburban gay marriage are all different from eachother... there's a common thread though.
The semantics tend to become the discussion.
> Is it so werid that I'm tired of all the preaching
Humans are all weird in different ways, but that isn't the point here. The point is that your views on this seem to be making you unhappy. And, well, that doesn't have to be the case. Talking to someone can help you not feel unhappy about this stuff. And if indeed it does, it will likely make other parts of your life better too, in ways that may not be obvious now.
Lot's of people here have had therapy. This is not a judgement or a dismissal, rather it is genuine advice.
Imagine that someone comes to you and says that you should kneel before some random black people, because that's how you are supposed to react to the BLM narrative. You might genuiely care about the minorities and still do not agree with the BLM narrative, or just plainly do not see the point of the performances themselves. You might feel very bad about doing this, which is completely natural. There are a lot of reasons why you would not want to do this. Should you go to a therapy to be able to shame yourself more easily? All due respect, it feels that someone who suggests something like this would need the therapy more.
If you ever change you mind, I think it'll be easier to change yourself than to change the world.
If doing your part to support these people just includes not saying anything while awareness is raised, I would recommend doing that. It's very easy to do and takes no effort on your part.
> If doing your part to support these people just includes not saying anything while awareness is raised, I would recommend doing that.
Does not imply what you asserted, which is:
> Isn't the consequence of that line of thinking that anything that doesn't raise awareness is problematic, as it takes up attention/spots on the front page etc? Ergo: we should have nothing but LGBT topics so everybody is aware all the time.
There seem to be several logical steps in-between the two assertions that you've assumed would happen and didn't lay out here.