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]

The fact that we have a language in common misleads us. The USA and Great Britain are as foreign to one another as any other two countries.

The biggest difference is size. The whole of the UK would fit into one of the smaller states. I think this conditions the way we theorize about society.

[sculptruth.livejournal.com]

I would definitely agree with this!