Normalness?

I was reading an article about the Ukraine war, and it quoted a famous Russian “intellectual” saying that the goal of the west was to destroy Russia using homosexuals as an invading army.  Now that is paraphrasing but close enough for government work.  What is our problem with sex?  Humans have been fighting, arguing, killing because of sex forever.  Sex is good, sex is bad.  Me having sex is great you having sex is evil.  Our brains seem to have a problem dealing with one of our basic functions.

As we all know by visiting the monkey cage at the zoo, sex is demanding, normal, abnormal, on-going, unstoppable—but that will not keep us from declaring some sexual activities okay and others abhorrent.

Religion has always been obsessed with sex.  Mostly old celibate white men making rules about sexual activity for everyone else would seem to represent a conflict of interest.  Maybe those old guys should have spent more time worrying about hunger or housing for their flock and less about the flock’s other activities.

Built into this obsession is the apparently human need to tell other people how to live their lives.  Now this gets into the subject of power, but really should someone else have that much power—WHO MADE HIM KING MONKEY?

Religious leaders declaring their power comes from God is one thing, politicians or Russian Big Shots declaring that same God speaks to them is another.  The Russian Big Shot thinks killing innocent people in their homes by the thousands, or millions is okay, but homosexuality is a sin.  Or maybe it’s okay to kill those people because some of them might be gay?  Sounds like the Russian honcho has some serious sex issues he needs to think through before he reloads his gun.

Some of the dumbest conspiracy theories I have heard all contain some element dealing with sexual perversion.  How do these nuts come up with all those strange, disgusting perversions?  Almost all taking place in basements or tunnels.  Seems like someone could use a hug.

At some level, I’m not opposed to everyone being the same.  Nobody should be different, and everyone should act, believe, think, walk, talk just like me.  Why not, I’m perfect!  So, if you’re different you are a threat to me, and I hate you for questioning who I am.

Okay, that’s absurd.  What a boring, dull, stupid world it would be if we were all the same.  Why does your difference matter to me at all?  Unless you invade my space in some way, I’m okay with you being you.

While we don’t live in a monkey cage, we do occupy common space.  The people who want to control other people are afraid of something.  They want to control themselves by controlling others.  Limit your options to approved norms.  Those norms are them.  And they need strict boundaries to maintain their “normalness.” 

Ever wonder what a different world we would live in if all our religious leaders had been women?

Pope Mary II would have had some different ideas about a lot of stuff!