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Normalizing the 'abnormal' makes no sense


I know in the modern times you are supposed to just accept everything and go with the flow, even if you are actually repulsed by whatever it is, but we are human beings, and we have the right to disagree with the craziest mainstream consensus in history!

When you look at nature, think of purpose of things, and walk in the forests, study animal behaviour and wonder about future civilizations (not just some 'artist's' or "artists"'s depictions of future or civilizations) - or any ACTUAL civilizations (this planet is more like a 'barbarization'), you can sort of find the core, meaning and even a blueprint of how things are supposed to work.

There are two genders for a reason - reproduction. Sex feels good, so entities will have incentive to practice reproduction. It's not supposed to be just a pastime when you have nothing better to do.

Of course, bipedal entities with their sense of entitlement and grandeur, will make whatever decisions they want, and make this simple, basic, biological 'reproduction urge' into more than it ever needs to be. Now it's suddenly some kind of major component of everyone's identity and people are supposed to celebrate twisted forms of such basic biological, originally reproduction-based activities.

Sexuality, however, is just another 'urge', that exists for a reason. It can be compared to 'eating', which people have also fabricated a huge mess (or even messes) around.

A simple act of maintaining of energy levels and structural nourishment of a physical vessel becomes a 'food culture' and 'restaurants' and 'foodies' and so on. Suddenly you have fancy dishes you eat from fancy dishes, rituals and components, behaviours and habits, celebrations and gatherings ALL centered around 'installing energy pellets into a body orifice'.

Now, in the animal world, deviations from the norm are rare. An animal will treat food as just something its body needs, end of story. It treats sexuality in a similar, very pragmatic fashion - ok, that feels good, let's do that for awhile. The end.

Animals neither expect nor demand someone to celebrate their deviance-from-the-norm type behaviour, whether it's sexual or nourishmental or otherwise. They just do whatever they have urge to do, the story ends there.

Why bipedal entities make everything such a big deal is beyond me. Why can't food be just food, sex something you practice in private and don't really expect others to celebrate you for if you happen to deviate from the biological norm? Why is a rare exception in some behaviour a point of fabricated 'cultural celebration'?

Let's say you have a computer cord with a plug. You plug it into where it's designed to fit, an outlet, your computer gets power. Its purpose is fulfilled. How shameful and vile, you should be murdered and tortured violently!

You try to plug it where it was -not- designed to go, and your computer gets all twisted and dysfunctional - yay, let's celebrate and wave colorful Cusco flags!

Ok, a bit faulty example, but so is the thinking here.

I once watched a movie, where a very fat, I should say morbidly obese hag was treated as 'normal'. I don't mind if there has to be a fat character, or something like John Candy or Chris Farley, but their fatness always supported the role they were playing, so it was good. Plus, they are really funny on screen.

But in this movie, they were treated as if the fatness isn't there, as if it isn't a repulsive, disgusting, disruptive, jarring symptom of childish lack of self-control and unhealthy life habits and so on. I couldn't understand why a movie would show a fat, disgusting blob as if they're just another character, and not somehow justify the awfulness.

This movie does the same with the forced awful haircuts and the slobbering that no one should have to watch without a warning, first. I am reminded of the 'most forbidden Bill Burr talk', where he saw something similar and had to react with organic repulsion (which is, of course, forbidden these days).

It's like normalizing someone eating dirty sand (or something worse), showing it in the most slimy way possible, and then hating anyone that reacts with 'ewww' to it. Makes no sense. Humans are supposed to eat food.

It's like Michael J. Fox starring in that TV show, where you are supposed to ignore 'the elephant in the room' and just 'enjoy the show'. Sorry, but it does not work that way.

You can't watch someone basically 'dying on screen' and not feel pity for him, and just focus on the story. It just can't be done.

You can't force yourself to just look 'past' something that slams you in the face with the force of thousand repulsions.

I get that the very small 'deviant groups' get disgusted when watching 'normies' slobber all over each other, but this is not the solution. (Besides, I don't like anyone slobbering over anyone in any case anyway, even pretty 'normies', ewwww!)

There is time and place for everything, movies are NOT it for those things.



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