Picture this: The year is 2020, Jim Carrey is President, Canada has been annexed by the United States… and 51% of the population is gay.
What does the homosexual population do? Do they extract revenge on those “damned breeders” for all those years of having to put up with all this “Don’t ask/Don’t tell” or Dr. Laura? Or do they suck it all up and show the same fairness that they’ve fought so hard to earn?
What think you, Teeming Millions? Will a world run by gays see the straight people relegated to special “breeder farms”… or a vast, lasting utopia that brings peace and love and tranquility to the galaxy beyond?
And also: Breeder farms would surely arise from reasons other than a homosexual majority. That’s why I see feminists as being stupidly over-confident sometimes. After a plague or nuclear war breeding on a commercial level would be probably be demanded of women. It is biologically possible for people to be farmed. It’s shocking isn’t it? Ranch life would never be the same.
Well, I’ve often noted that if only 2/3 of the guys here at RPI were gay, everyone would be happy. 1/3 of the guys would get another 1/3 of the guys, and the last 1/3 would get the women. Assuming they’re all straight. Some days I want to shoot myself. Especially when I hear reports on TV saying that colleges around the country are having trouble recruiting men.
To quote Sylvia: ‘There would be no crime and women would be fat and happy.’
I think the question is absurd. Heterosexuality will not become the minority. I think this comes from fear of difference and a lack of understanding of the complexity of gender identity which our culture attempts to tell us is a simple cut and dried thing. Sexuality and gender identity are very complex things which are individual to each person, as unique as a snowflake.
Though if heterosexuals became the minority, I and my friends wouldn’t be trying to harass them through ‘legal means’ to make their lives hell. Which that could be said of the heterosexuals who were currently making laws.
The majority of the population already is gay, at least where I live. It’s not that different. Ok, people generally have better fashion sense, and there are more ROLO stores per square block than any wher else in the world, but other than that not much is different.
why bother with stupid ideas that will never happend. Gays will always be seen upon as some kind of perverts by most people.
It’s gonna take more than a trend to change this.
Haldeman (sp) had a take on this in The Forever War, where thanks to over-population pressures and artifical wombs (Yes, it is SF), most of the world was encouraged to be homosexual. After a while, homosexuality was the norm, and the heterosexuals were the ‘queers’. This is not the main thrust of the book, but it is one of the subthemes running in the background, and it does lead to a number of important points in the story.
They also had this on “Ellen” a few years ago after she came out that she was gay (obviously). It’s her friend that comments that the straight people will have to go to “Straight Bars.”
Sorry, 'Nome, I was buying more lubric–*… I mean, detergent. Yeah.
Actually, I can tell you on good authority (seeing as how I wrote the question to begin with), it comes from simple curiosity about unlikely hypotheticals. Y’know, like how some people wonder what chairs would look like if our knees bent the other way?
Why bother with stupid ideas that will never happend. Lighter-than-air vehicles will never fly. Television will never be more popular than radio. Anesthetic is impossible. The Earth is the center of the universe.
I’d put the “Roll-eyes” smiley there, except it wouldn’t denote exactly how much my eyes really did roll.
If you can see the possibility of a vast, lasting utopia that brings peace and love and tranquility to the galaxy beyond coming out of a heterosexual minority it’s probably because you’ve considered the gays in the military thing too. I mean ONLY gays in the military, in every country, all dressed in leather. People who like uniforms and who don’t want to see them ruined, no matter who they belong to.
I didn’t mean to cast an unambiguous light on your personality by the “bend over boyfriend” stuff Spoofe. That whole thing, it must be said, is about having a girlfriend, although a really stupid one. In your case may be one looking for a toothbrush holder… bathroom accessories… I don’t know.
Maybe people would all be nicer to each other, if heterosexuality became the minority. People who have lived their lives under discrimination usually have more empathy towards others. I don’t think the Gay population would be vengeful.
And maybe straight guys would be nicer to their partners.
From a list of man-bashing jokes that was going around our class:
