The Heterosexual Community

[poliphilo]

Some Diddy-biddy on the BBC News channel just asked an interviewee how something or other would affect the heterosexual community.  The what? 

I'm a heterosexual. How come I never heard of this community before? Why don't they send me the newsletter? Why don't I get invited to meetings? Where's my club badge? 

Who's our convenor? Peter Stringfellow?  Katie Price?

I want to get out and meet my fellow-heterosexuals. I want to take tea with them. I want to discuss all the pressing concerns we have in common.

What lazy, nonsenical stuff all this talk of "community" is.  The Muslim community, the Chinese community, the gay community, the black community: none of these really exists.

Comments

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I don't think it was tongue in cheek. The subject was too serious for that. It was in the context of a discussion of AIDS.

[richenda.livejournal.com]

i didn't mean "tongue in cheek humourous" I meant "tongue in cheek think what you are saying" - in case someone was forgetting/ignoring that AIDS affects all communities?

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Perhaps.

But it's the word "community" I object to. Why not just speak of "homosexuals" and "heterosexuals"?