discrimi-nation

Free will is a double-edged sword. It has the capacity, in the same breadth and intensity, to create order and unity as it does bigotry and secernment. To choose one over the latter precludes a cognizance beyond simply being either tolerant or discretionary. In the context of free will, discretion in its essential form cannot exist without acceptance. They are antithetical concepts of one another, sides of the same coin of the human consciousness. It is in our responsible and mindful methods that both can be actualized for the most positive and humane of outcomes.

Acceptance without understanding leads to pacifism, apathy and indifference. Discretion without moderation leads to conceit, and discrimination. The challenge is to negotiate their appropriate proportions that would lead to a minimally socially subversive affectation.

On a biological perspective, our behaviors are programmed, being sexual creatures, to being phenotropic, gravitating towards a certain morphology that complements our genetic make-up. This disposition ensures the effective and efficient mixing of genes to generate evolutionarily superior offspring, whether or not the copulation intended is of the homosexual or heterosexual sort. Discrimination exists to balance the dynamic of the genetic pool, creating opportunities for better, well-suited and dominant future generations.

The proponents of gender sensitivity and equality sell their advocacy with the supporting argument of the sense of shared pain, a shared history of being ostracized by stereotypical misconceptions of our leanings, a fallacy that is perpetuated by society's refusal to leave the middles ages. Sexuality, not to discredit the movement, have grown by leaps and bounds across the decades, but to assume unity by something as superficial as sexual orientation is an elementary failure of human acceptance. It merely has become more open and apparent, but in no way is it nonexistent in prior generations and societies. That to gain acceptance by uniting in defiance against the socially-retarded orthodoxical and counter-pedagogical traditionalism, and outright purist religiously-driven dogmatism, leads to a further alienation of our subculture from the mainstream.

What we must prove, if we are to dream of relieving homosexual discrimination, is that the rainbow we inhabit has a spectrum beyond people's imaginings, and that we are as very much capable of successfully propagating positive actions and effects on the human experience, not despite but rather because of our non-unilateral predispositions and potentialities. Be the change you want to be, so to speak.

But the truth is, even within our rosters discrimination exists and is continually resonant in its various, although altered, forms. We choose our partners, and even those who we date or befriend, based on these discriminatory choices and palates. Those who are physically assertive will prefer the same, a brand of mimetic discrimination. The effeminate becoming a disgruntled left-over. The obese shied by the buff, the academics and brooding, by the social cicadas. To some degree, this is expected, and very much tolerated, if only because we are all guilty of the same at some point and in some form. The hurdle leads to a preferential bandwagon-ism even within the ranks.

What the objective must be is not to eradicate discrimination per se, but rather to find that healthy balance between it, being our nature as humans in lieu of free will, and credence. To achieve an equilibrium that is not discordant with our tastes as individuals, but rather celebrating the diversity of our humanity. The same way we choose our friends, the larger and far greater demand is to live amidst this discrimination in relative peace, not as outsiders to a larger community but as complementary chroma of the human rainbow, gay or otherwise.

We cannot be all the same, as this is inconvenient and implausible, but we can find the commonalities that make us pieces of a singular puzzle. We can choose to employ discrimination not as a tool to differentiate, but as a caliper to congregate. To find the people whose values are congruent with ours, friends whose wavelengths coincide with our own, and a partner with a heart that matches our own beating.

We are, after all, one big multifarious family.


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In answer to Theorgy - Discriminate, Not.