What is normality.
What is "normality" ? I have just been listening to a spat between a heterosexual male and a transvestite.
The
terms heterosexual, transsexual, transgender,transvestite, gay, lesbian
all proclaim a territory which is defined by "their" particular
understanding of "normality". The hermaphrodite is as normal as someone
suffering bi-polar, or altruism, its a fact of life that they exist as
they are and we have to try to understand that their norms are as normal
as ours.
Viewed
from the 'singular' this is what we, as a mature civilised society
should aim for, and wonder at the complexity of the mind (for I believe
it is the mind which throws up the variants to confuse us) to have so
many variations.
When
it comes to society there are other factors which inhibit our whole
hearted compliance with the rights of people to be who they are.
If
my nature is to be brutal and aggressive society expects that
collectively we take a common stance and decry the right of the person
to be aggressive to others.
If
there is a detrimental effect on society to witness overt acts perhaps
of a sexual nature then we have a right to expect the rules by which we
establish the norms in society to come into effect and quell what is at
that moment a normal but inappropriate act.
The
coming together of two men or two women who claim they love each other
and wish to act as a if they were a couple and play the role of 'active
sexual interplay, by (within the bounds of physical ability), mimicking a
heterosexual couple and suggest that it's normal, has some people up in
arms.
There
is the claim that the act of having sex is to procreate, to create a
child and that sex therefore should only be between a man and a woman.
Sex as a stimulant is to be avoided, having sex outside marriage is to
be avoided and so on. It's true to say that 50 years ago society had
very different views about the sanctity of marriage and the permission
marriage gave to young people to engage in sex. Having a child out of
wedlock was viewed as disgraceful and equally being an adulterer was
likewise despicable.
The question of whether "normality" changes, as societies view on sex and marriage has,
that is the question !
If
we were all encircled in our own enclave, each allowed to do what is
the norm for that particular group, does that group have the right to
demand the right of their own normality to invade that of the other
groups ?
Is
it there a 'cosmopolitan' right in society to demand that we 'all'
accept something even if there are deep objections, objections which are
brushed away in the over arching right of the noisy cosmopolitan.
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