"Normal" sexuality?

[redqueen]

52. Well this was prompted by someone who implied in another thread...

that anyone who disagreed about issues of sexuality was wrong, and all the 'normal' people were right.

However to answer your question, it's exceedingly important when deciding where to draw the lines about consent and willing participation, when you are indoctrinating half the population to absorb what the dominant group finds appealing.

We are bombarded with messages that show distorted images of sexuality and gender. Both men and women. This is causing obvious problems but for some reason most people seem to want to ignore it.

It isn't healthy, it isn't right, and we need to stop pretending it doesn't matter. We've probably destroyed the environment beyond repair at this point, and our political and economic systems are barely managing to function. The least we could do is put an effort into treating each other as human beings worthy of consideration.

To me, as long as people pretend that sexism and misogyny are acceptable, we're damning ourselves to a lower quality of life than we deserve.