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

[kutsuwamushi.livejournal.com]

Reading your other comments, I think I understand better what you mean.

I would still say that we do tend to form communities based on skin color and other attributes, like religion or sexuality. However, there's not one, over-arching community containing all blacks and all queer people, but many smaller ones that have things (and people!) in common.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I think "community" is the wrong word for a large group of people. Maybe I'm being over-fastidious here, but I hate anything that denies people their individuality.