(A thin line (or thread) separates the fool from the dumbass. On one end of the line lies the fool and on the other, the dumbass. Upon snapping the line it's a million dollar question as to who's the fool and who's the dumbass, brother.*)
I don't know but thin line always reminds me of this dialog from Omkara. I often wonder how do we define straight or gay. Is it simple black and white, Are we all either gay or straight. I thought of writing about this before, but restrained myself. Trust me first time in my life I am trying to think what is the reason behind having such variety of orientation. One thing for sure it's not just another invention of some psychotic western guy who is bored of normal life and trying do something different. It might sound lame but I used think this as the reason as I found it really strange how any guy can find an elastic rod more interesting than beautiful geography of hills, valleys, lake and grand canyon. But homosexuality was back there even in ancient Greece. Alexander the great himself was gay. So there is only one simple conclusion, no one is born with any orientation . orientation is very much related to someone's comfort level. It's not just some warrior enjoy pointing or putting his gun on some fellow/opponent warrior's back. If that's the case then I really doubt if you should call that warrior as gay. He is another guy deprived of or scared of pointing his gun from front. Given the opportunity I am sure he would even love to fire the gun at front heaven. Now it might always happen if someone is habituated to fire at the back, it can back fire and change his orientation. I am really reluctant to call such persons gay. I mentioned about comfort level. If I take the example of those ancient Greek warriors who are fighting years after years, they are used to get comfort from each other's company live and fight for each other. They find more pleasure and comfort in each other's arm than in any slave girl's intimacy. And as sex is directly related to comfort, years of togetherness in battle field can definitely change someone's orientation.
But at the same time there are some not so natural reason for homosexuality. The whole 'taboo' associated with it sometime drives people to try something different or something prohibited. and then comes dilemma, guilty feeling, orientation check blah blah !!Sometimes these are just transient and sometimes depending upon the fragileness of that person the impact can be huge.
I guess some of you are pissed of me for only discussing about homosexuality of men. Well may be the number of lesbians out there are more but I must say most of the girls you have seen in so called lesbian porn are not really lesbians. It's just that women are more shameless with or in front of each other than men. Reason for homosexuality of women can be both their tender as well as dominant nature. how so ? I hope you have already figured out the answer or wait for my updates after few days.
Anyway while writing today I wanted to talk how knowing about something called homosexuality has changed the way we behave talk or perceive things.
Back during my school days when I didn't have much idea about all these sexual orientation It seemed perfectly alright to hug a male friend. And now I don't really remember when is the last time I actually hugged or saw any of friends hugging each other. If anyone ever tells his friend he loves him he would most probably add the suffix "in a heterosexual way". A friend of mine recently moved from Mumbai to Bangalore and I was feeling bit bad thinking I will be bored on the weekends. But then I thought may be I should not say that.. it might sound bit gay. There was another funny incident few months back me and my roomie went to some Latino dance class. For practice at home unfortunately we didn't have any helping female neighbor so we decided to be each other partner, but we consciously made an effort that nobody finds us doing that.
Few related movies:
A Home at the End of the World
Fucking Amal
Brokeback Mountain
3 comments:
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what do u mean ??:D I can see two holes ..one at the front and one at the back ..:D
but can you see there there is long distance between them :P:P:D
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