| | Hi Nathan,
I'm glad the response was enough for further review. Thanks for telling me that.
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I wonder why that [femaleness-maleness] seems more "flexible" among homosexuals than among heterosexuals. Perhaps if homosexuality had been the social norm and heterosexuals were an emergent culture, that boundary-breaking would have engendered similar variety.
Your 'perhaps' has hit it. The experience James mentioned in his post is what all gay people must go through in the current culture. Intense self-examination at some point becomes necessary to resolve the seeming contradiction between "what everyone else feels" and "what I feel." That experience also drives home the idea that more than one set of traits (masculine, feminine) is potentially open and can be explored.
At some point I hope that a person discovering his sexuality won't cause as earth-shaking an experience as it does for most gay people. For now, though, it's a big deal.
Jason
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