You're quite right. I did take it further, but it was late and I was on the verge of sleep and had just been told what I've always known by a stupid program. Kinda like my appointment with the neurologist.
In a world where sexual orientation wasn't assumed, or mattered, there are women I'm friends with that I'd become more than friends with.
As it is, I value them as friends far too much to even risk freaking them out by suggesting we become lovers. I'd be all over my favourite neighbor, if she'd have me.
For the rest of the world, I don't know. I would like to think that it would lead to a generation of people who could relate to each other as they find each other, and express their feelings politely and gently without fear of losing a friend because they're not "normal". And respect others' rejections on the basis of monogamy as nothing personal. There are lovely people who are just so constructed. I still love them. I just don't talk about some things when I'm around them.
assumption of orientation
In a world where sexual orientation wasn't assumed, or mattered, there are women I'm friends with that I'd become more than friends with.
As it is, I value them as friends far too much to even risk freaking them out by suggesting we become lovers. I'd be all over my favourite neighbor, if she'd have me.
For the rest of the world, I don't know. I would like to think that it would lead to a generation of people who could relate to each other as they find each other, and express their feelings politely and gently without fear of losing a friend because they're not "normal". And respect others' rejections on the basis of monogamy as nothing personal. There are lovely people who are just so constructed. I still love them. I just don't talk about some things when I'm around them.