1/9/19

Random picture at the top. It's going to get you in your sleep...

Another all over the place chapter. HERE WE GO

I've wondered about this for almost a year now. Why is the 'normal, original' sexuality heterosexual? Why do people from the LGBTQ+ community have to come out? Why dont straight people come out as being straight? I'm not trying to be mean or anything, I'm just thinking...

Do you think that it's because fairytales have straight couples? Think about it, 'Beauty and the Beast', 'Cinderella', 'Snow White'. Where are the gay couples? Children grow up with "Man and woman fall in love. Man and woman get married". Some kids might not even think that two men, or two women can be together.

I'm going to be base this on how I grew up. I loved fairytales. I had quite a lot (I wouldn't say all, because I have not seen all Disney Princess movies). My parents told me nothing about it. I always thought "girl and boy go together". The first time I heard of a same sex relationship, was when I was reading one of my detectives book when I was like 10. The main detective went to a female colleague's house, and another women opened the door, with a young child running around her legs. The main detective found out that her colleague had a wife, and they had children. I just thought "oh, ok, a women and a women together. I've never heard of it, but ok then. I'm good with it". I was that uneducated I'd never heard of anything other than a straight couple.

After finding out that I wasn't straight in September 2018 after falling for one of my friends, it just felt wrong. Like I said, I never had anything against the community. But since I'd spent 12 years growing up with the "girl and boy go together", knowing I wanted to follow another scenario of "girl and girl go together", it felt wrong. Just wrong. I felt disgusting for liking someone of the same gender.

Then another one of my friends came out to the group as bisexual. Another one came out as bisexual. And the girl I liked, she came out as pansexual. The first one who came out, she told me that she also liked a girl. I suddenly didn't feel alone. I feel less disgusting on myself. I felt better about myself. There was nothing wrong with not being straight and I realised it

Then I began thinking as to why I was like that. Why did I feel disgusting for being queer? I realised it was because of my no knowledge on the community. I had felt like the odd one out because I wasn't educated that there were other people who weren't straight.

Fairytales don't have any homosexual relationship. That's missing. A lot of children spend their time in fairytales, wishing to be that saved princess or that heroic prince. No books have that saved prince, or a heroic, independence princess. Kids are always like "i want to be like (name character) when I grow up". If they want to be like that, and they have no initial knowledge about the community, wouldn't it be weird when they realise that they can't be that character they wanted to be?

If fairytales had homosexual relationships, do you think that growing children will be surprised when they see two people of the same gender together?

This is another chapter that is all over the place again. But the main point I have in this is, fairytales don't have to homosexual relationships.