Re: New Arvorec words

CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU writes:
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>I hadn't thought about much of this before this thread came up, but all of
>these conditions are inevitable with the cultural foundations I've already
>designed.  When your whole society centers around family, a lifestyle that
>produces no children can hardly be tolerated.
It depends, like others have said. For instance, to take a real life
example, in the Philippines, family is all important, however there are
the bakla, or bayot (in cebuano), which are considered "feminine gendered
men", so are considered an acceptible sexual outlet for heterosexual men
(it is OK to be bakla or bayot as long as you act feminine). This term
also covers transvestites and transexuals, along with feminine gay men.

The sticking point is, bakla who are masculine and not femine are met with
suspicion, because:

"In other words, a man who looks like a man and acts like a man and also
prefers men is someone who confuses the heterosexual object-choice
dichotomy in Filipino popular perceptions of sexual behavior. "

So, there's kind of a double standard in the Philippines, it's not
abnormal to be gay and feminine there, but to be gay and masculine is
something that's confusing or puzzling.

Many Montreianos see homosexuality as something abnormal, and many use
religion as justification for considering it abnormal. But, gay men who
are feminine are more widely accepted than gay men who are masculine. The
bigger cities do have areas where gay people hang out and live together.
Often, these are former ghettos that have been gentrified (much like the
Castro district of San Francisco). Lesbians are much more accepted than
either feminine or masculine gay men (some see it as a natural extention
of female social bonding).

However, Montreianos tend to just not discuss the issue when it arises
within a family. They tend to take the view of "what i dont see, isnt
there".

I wonder, has the Catholic church in IB taken a similar stance as it has
in our world? That is, that homosexuality itself isnt a sin, but the acts
are?

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At the end of it all lies of course the final phenomenon of
 deterioration-entropy-which is a predictable deterioration
 when the creative energy ceases: everything has to fall apart.

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