"Normal" sexuality? [View all]

[redqueen]

How can we pretend to know what such a thing would look like, when in every country, women are a minority group. The closest women come to equality is in the Scandinavian countries.

When the sexual cues are tailored to appeal to the dominant group, and the minority group is raised in this environment, most of them adopting the dominant message, and conforming to society's 'default', how can we possibly think there's any way to know what 'normal' is?

To label the individuals of a minority who conform to the dominant group's message as 'normal' and label any individuals of a minority who reject that message and seek to find a message more inclusive of the minority group's experiences and needs as 'abnormal' is to further entrench the disenfranchisement of the minority group.

Until we stop pretending that sexism doesn't matter as much as racism or homophobia, and start paying serious attention to the lessons we're teaching our children when we ignore (that means accept) sexism and misogyny, we will never know what 'normal' is.