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Re:Do We Live in a Society Without a Counterculture? by jeoqn on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @09:15AM (#34610681)
> LQBTQIA

Wherever you go online or offline you see gay flags. Every political institution of the west and every company big or small support gays and are loud about it. If you don’t like gays you are severely shunned. I can’t believe anybody thinks that’s the counterculture now. If anything, heterosexuality is the counterculture.

Re:Do We Live in a Society Without a Counterculture? by arisu on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @10:52AM (#34612212)
> Wherever you go online or offline you see gay flags.

We see what we focus on.

>If you don’t like gays you are severely

And rightly so.

> If anything, heterosexuality is the counterculture.

That's just nonsense.

Re:Do We Live in a Society Without a Counterculture? by wishfish on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @12:32PM (#34614152)
I'm heterosexual. There is no state in the nation, nor any nation, which would shun me and my wife. Some conservative countries might frown on me if I were to kiss my wife in public. But, overall, I will be considered normal and accepted wherever I go. Whether it's San Francisco or New York or Moscow or Saudi Arabia or the backwoods in Arkansas. I can go to churches. I can go to nightclubs. I can attend right wing or left wing rallies with my spouse. No one's going to persecute me for my romantic attachment. I have zero fear of violence resulting from my sexuality.

If I were gay, the calculations change dramatically. There are now no-go areas. Places where I'd have to be either closeted or just not go at all due to the risk. Sure, I could take a little comfort in Raytheon throwing up a pride flag once a year. But that doesn't change the fact that in many places I would be shunned, imprisoned, or executed for my sexuality. That even in a haven like San Francisco, there are still people who would want to physically hurt me if I was gay.

There is little in this world more mainstream than heterosexuality.