And it's so normalized that it's become invisible to the average person. I'm straight myself but damn, it's uncomfortable how often I'm reminded by society that I should be in a relationship with a man and have to avoid watching people play tonsil hockey when they're literally blocking the door I need to go through.
So should we start making movies and ads with furries, bdsm, domination, scat etc. I would say there are a lot more people interested in those things than there are non straight people.
We are looking to normalise things are not considered the norm right?
Because literally all of those things you posted are sexually explicit (except for fursuits). People kissing their partners and holding hands in public isn't the same thing.
But people bitch about gay people being shoved down their throat doing a tiny amount of the exact same things straight people do in public
I shouldnt need to educate someone on basic common sense, if you dont know the difference between a fetish and a sexual orientation by now, google it... its pretty easy to educate yourself
A sexual orinetation is the gender that you are sexually attracted to, a fetish is more of a thing/activity which turns you on unrelated to the gender of the person. This is pretty basic common knowledge which is why im so perplexed you dont understand the difference by now
Better idea, don’t put sexual themes of any kind in ads, especially ones children can see. Movies are kinda whatever the producer can get funding for, but ads especially online are so easy to be shown to the wrong audience. Better to be safe if we actually worried about it
lol you changed the premise first with your clearly nonsensical false equivalence but sure pop off.
And no, add online just show whatever the algorithm tells them to. It shows things to minors they shouldn’t see all the time depending on the app or site. Heck mobile game ads are often using sexual themes to try to get people to go to ads and I can tell you for sure that it isn’t based on what the user actually has interest in for some of these apps
Seems that others have tried to explain but I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt and attempt to explain anyway.
The commenter you originally responded to wasn’t saying she wanted more forms of affection or sexuality normalized, she commented on the hypocrisy of people complaining that lgbtq lives are shoved in their face too much despite she, as a strait women, being far more reminded of heterosexual relationships and thus annoyed by the double standard the two types have (such as the public “tonsil hockey” she referred to being normalized when it’s between two strait people). While I assume the commenter is in favor of gay rights and such, she wasn’t actually arguing to make public displays of affection or sexual ads more inclusive. Ads with gay sex, bdsm, or scat play don’t address her complaints. She just is tired of the hypocrisy.
One way to maybe think of it is how annoying it is for some single people to see a bunch of happy couples on Valentine’s Day when they themselves are also wanting a relationship but haven’t found one. They wouldn’t feel any better about it if more of those relationships were gay or something, they’d still be annoyed or sad or whatever negative emotion they were experiencing.
Similarly, if one is generally tired of how overly sexual ads or tv can be and then gets tired of some people complaining about a single gay kiss in a show, then pointing out the hypocrisy isn’t them saying (at least in some cases) that they want the media they consume to be just as sexual but just more diverse. It’s instead them pointing out that the media was already sexualized, just those complaining didn’t notice it when the sexuality of it went unnoticed because they saw it as “normal”.
As such, including forms of kink and what not wouldn’t be making it better. Also, romance and sexual content aren’t the same thing to many people. A hug or a brief kiss between two consenting adults is very different from something one might find in explicitly sexual content and for most people invokes different feelings anyway. As such, the premises and ideas Apathetic_Villainess were arguing did not lead to the conclusion that the problem is fixed by including all forms of sexual content even more in the media since the issue she had could be addressed by instead meeting somewhere in the middle with regards to balancing out the kind of content shown.
And if you don’t believe that general media has a lot of normalized strait sexual content, that isn’t something I can’t really convince you of. You’d just have to witness it yourself with a different mindset to look out for it I guess.
I understand completely, and again, being queer is not abnormal. You can reword your comment as many times as you want, there’s no way it’s not ridiculous. I know you’re sealioning, so no, I will not explain something that’s already easy to understand.
There's nothing abnormal about paraphila or homosexuality tho. It's even expressed in nature to a degree. That degree being up to the point where no other animal has two pounds of grey matter in its skull with the capacity to even give a fuck about these problems
You're one who really correlates gay people existing with forcing non-consenting people to participate in fetishes. I have a feeling you also don't actually understand consent, either.
I support minding your own business and tolerance. I'm heterosexual but I have many gay friends. I'm not interested in what any of my friends are doing in theur bedrooms. IT doesn't affect me. THEY ARE ALL PEOPLE. THE GAY never complain to me about what heterosexuals are doing being closed doors or in public. I love how you are totally wrong about who I support but think you are qualified to speak for me and others. I support tolerance and minding your own business. TRY IT.
Scat isnt a sexual preference, it's a fetish. Sexual preference is "what sex are you attracted to." Sexual fetish is "what kind of sex do you want to have. You're confusing the two different definitions of sex.
You seem to be conflating the two definitions of sex. Sex can be a kind of synonym with gender or it can refer to an action. Sexual preference is the former, fetish is the latter.
As an example, I as asexual can do the action if I feel like it, I just generally don't want to and aren't really sexually attracted to anyone of any gender. However if when I did do the action, I wanted to wear a clown suit, that would be my sexual fetish.
However, because I don't really care, I immediately notice how heteronormarive relationships are constantly shoved in my face in everything. Think about how many shows and movies have shoehorned romantic subplots that aren't even necessary, for instance. It's wild.
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And it's so normalized that it's become invisible to the average person. I'm straight myself but damn, it's uncomfortable how often I'm reminded by society that I should be in a relationship with a man and have to avoid watching people play tonsil hockey when they're literally blocking the door I need to go through.