I was listening to the Savage Love Cast this morning on my way to work (is there a better way to wake up than with talk of all sorts of crazy sex?), and heard Dan Savage try and defend his position that all gay men should be considered "damaged goods" until proven otherwise. His contention is that we all go through some extremely tough situations in out lives as gay people, and because of these situations, many of us don't come out on the completely sane side.
At first blow, I was pissed. How dare he say that we're all fucked up?! We aren't any more fucked up than the average straight person!! But, then I started to hear his actual point. It's more a statement of the sad treatment we GLBTs of the world than of the GLBTs themselves. To presume that we've all been srewed with our whole lives to the point that we will have some mental "issues," you are saying that the world at large is to blame, not us. And I think that's a fairly safe assumption to make.
What do you think though? When you start to date a guy/gurl, do you make the automatic assumption that (s)he's broken until proven otherwise? Or, do you take the possibly more naive approach and say he's wonderful until he proves otherwise?
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I don't think that members of the GLBT community are damaged goods. I think, however, it would be fair to say that most people have a certain amount of baggage.
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