I’ve always considered myself as normal. Last week I started a normal day in my normal way. I went to work, worked at work, went home for lunch, ate my lunch, returned to work… You get the idea...normal. My last stop for the day was just another normal rehearsal. We tend to be a chatty group so I was not surprised when the conversation turned to current events. Just the normal stuff, you know, the weather and if the health care bill is going to pass. But then someone mentioned Meredith Baxter and her recent disclosure on the Today Show. Everyone had an opinion…but me. Apparently I was the only person who was unaware of her recent coming out on national television. Once I was caught up with the news, the topic of conversation briefly turned to orientation. I seldom pay attention to such conversations, but one comment in particular caught my ear. I heard someone say, “Well I think that is just horrible. I thank God everyday that I am normal.”
What is normal anyway?
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2 years ago
1 comment:
This breaks my heart. I don't even know who Meridith Baxter is, but this comment bothers me. I guess that's why I'm in the program I'm in right now...to learn and in turn educate others that orientation is not a thing that determines whether or not someone is normal, that our whole history with sexuality is one full of changes and differing views.
Heteronormativity is a function of our modern society, and as such, promotes the economy that is based on the nuclear, heterosexual family. Funnily enough, that model was only, and is still only achievable by a select group of people with a certain amount of economic privilege.
I'll stop here before I begin a lecture that I'm sure will bore everyone....
:-)
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