The Homophobe Argument

I'm inundated with assignments and work at the moment (all of which I'm behind on, but hey, not all of us can be Einstein - someone has to be the beauty in front of the brains) but I wanted to do a quick post about something that has been bothering me. I like to call it "The Homophobe Argument". Now, this could be interpreted in many ways I know, but what I'm specifically referring to is the diatribe that all homophobes come up with as a reason for "why being gay is wrong".

It goes like this: It's not natural, animals don't do it, so it's not natural for humans to do it because we are animals. I have so many problems with this stupid exclamation I don't even know where to begin, and I'm not even gay. 

First of all, yes animals do have sex with animals of the same sex. Monkeys do it all the time. In fact, some monkey species are more likely to have a sexual partner of the same sex. Now, if there are any homophobic people out there reading this right now: I apologise. It's okay, you aren't dying, I know that your tiny mind has just been blown but it's A-OK. Go and find a dark corner in a dark room where you can spend time thinking about what a terrible person you have been your whole homophobic life, feel bad about it. Once you've gotten over it start to walk towards the light and... ta-da welcome to your new life as a better person. If you are a homophobic person who happens to be religious, then I'm sorry to tell you this buddy, God made gay monkeys. It was on the Wednesday, you know, when he'd had enough of the pressure of making a planet and decided to smoke a joint, he discovered free love and gay monkeys were born. Deal with it. 

Second of all, if we are basing all things "natural" around what our comrades in The Animal Kingdom are doing, then we are well and truly fucked. Let's just take the argument of "animals don't do it, so we shouldn't do it" as a basis for all good decision making in human life. Let's take it as a template, shall we? Animals don't wash regularly, animals don't use iPads, animals don't listen to music, animals don't use Facebook, animals don't live in concrete/brick/wooden houses, animals eat each other, animals don't take medicine they just DIE, animals don't drink bottled water, animals shit themselves, animals don't go to school - you see what I'm getting at here? There are so many things that humans do that other animals don't do, it's them that should be taking the advice from us, not the other way around.

That's all I can think of for now. I would also like to mention that I am saying "sex" in the loosest terms. Because I know lesbians who are attracted to women with XY chromosomes (they are women but have been accidentally assigned-male at birth, because doctors get it wrong, for those who don't know). So you don't have to be attracted to someone of the same sex (i.e. chromosomes etc) to be gay. So if you see what I'm saying, sex and gender don't really have anything to do with it, which is why animals are another terrible comparison with humans because they don't have the complicated, intimate understanding of sexuality and gender that we have the potential to. Unfortunately there are many humans stunting that potential by being stupid.

Ta-da.