Sunday, March 30, 2008

How are men made Heterosexual?

If you consider that men are, since their childhood, made to realise that the part of them that desires men is going to be an immense social burden on them (this burden increases tremendously with the heterosexualisation of the society), and the part that likes women is going to get them enormous benefits, status and most of all -- manhood, the most coveted thing for men... then is it any wonder that men compete with each other to prove their 'heterosexuality' and consider themselves lucky to the extent they're able to mutilate their sexual need for men (often beyond recognition)?

Does that make heterosexuality natural?

Men and Women are not the same

It's a Western idea that men and women are the same.

But, just by ignoring the reality you cannot change it. And even in heterosexual practise, men and women are not really treated the same. It just becomes a way for the vested interests to ahve their way and find a misplaced moral excuse.

Actually, men end up being treated far less, unless they conform to heterosexual norms. Whatever is modern is not necessarily good and whatever is traditional is not necessarily bad.
It's really self-explanatory. We today have an extremely liberal society in Delhi and there's a lot of anonymity and freedom for girls and boys to date. But still, in my class, the young guys stick to each other. they do talk about girls, but if they had any pressing need for girls they'd just chase the innumerable 'available' girls there. The most interesting thing to note is that, despite all the social disapproval of male-male sexuality, they are extremely open to sexuality from another guy. If they see you're interested in men, most of them go out of the way to show they're 'available'. But, this only happens between 'straights' (i.e. between masculine gendered males -- men) and generally not with 'gays' (feminine gendered males). Perhaps, apart from natural sexual affinity of a masculine gendered guy for another masculine gendered guy, one reason for this could be that with gays, boys are over eager to distance themselves from.
Men not only fight and suppress their attraction for men, they hide their need for the company of those they love, their feelings of jealousy, sex, loyalty, shame, their disinterest and sometimes abhorence for sex with women.

Saturday, January 26, 2008

Root of all Evils: the human greed for Reproduction

Money is not really the root of all evils. If there is really something which is responsible for every single thing that is going wrong with this world today -- from the dying earth to innumerable diseases to blood thirsty religions to burgeoning population and millions of more ... it is the human greed for reproduction.
There's only one thing that matches this evil, and it is: the near obliteration of man's sexual need for men from humankind -- which, at least originally -- has been brought about in order to force men into reproductive sex.
To put it in better words, Reproduction and Breaking of man from his basic nature of bonding with other men, is taking not only humankind, but everything that this earth represents, towards destruction. It is probably too late to set the clock back.
As man broke from his nature, he gradually gave rise to extremely dangerous, unnatural and destructive institutions such as religion and science -- which have further helped him move away from nature and destroy both, the nature inside and outside of him.
What humans foolishly call 'progress' -- with all its technologies and luxuries -- is actually destruction. Man is too short sighted, and at present, too engrossed in all the power that comes from exploiting mother earth irrevocably for short term comforts -- that man did not need in the first place -- to notice or comprehend this fact clearly.
And, since the conspiracy against men has been so painstakingly been made invisible, humans are unable to see it as the root cause of everything that is going wrong with the world today. It is thus not only an issue that concerns men but something that every human being should take serious note of. And, if we don't become sensible enough to notice this now, it may actually be too late to do anything about it.

Creating New Infrastructure to sustain oppression of men

The modern heterosexual society works overtime, and invests heavily in maintaining the age-old infrastructres to force men to disown their same-sex needs -- and to develop new, such infrastructures that suit the needs of the modern age -- one that is a tricky one because of the (so-called) freedom of choice, thoughts and expression.
And, so, the scientists keep coming with half-baked, ill-sampled and ill-deduced theories about how men who like men are like women (thus, they're not really men; they're third gender, whether the west recognises third gender formally or not!). They've brains that resemble those of women (hypothalamus theory), their blinking rate (or something of the sort) resembles those of women, and they are to be certain, not like straight (read masculine gendered) males.
Everytime they bring such theories, everytime the media creates a hype about them, everytime they show a queer guy running desiring men on TV and films -- the space for the masculine gendered male to own up his sexual/ love/ emotional need for men is more securedly locked -- and the best part is that this is all in the name of science and in the garb or freedom -- especially, sexual freedom.

Ridiculing man-man sexuality on screen

They have already taken out even the space to speak to male-male sexuality for thousands of years. And, when in a heterosexual environment, they (media/ entertainment world) make fun of male-male sexuality, invariably by relating it with third gender (feminine gender in males), men who want to explore their same-sex sexuality -- both, by necessity and by choice -- they have no space or opportunity to correct the mispropaganda ... and they are further forced to hide and suppress their same-sex needs, or else have the society force the third gender identity on them.