The discrimination of men and homosexuality

Even if you're a Christian or Muslim and believe homosexuality to be a grave sin, the following may still be of interest to you. Homosexuality can be an interesting subject, even if you're neither homosexual nor pro-gay.

Male homosexuality is condemned and a taboo in many cultures, though it is accepted in some, most notably in ancient Greece, where it was widely accepted. Among some Christians today homosexuality is still considered a sin.

But among many young Europeans only male homosexuality is considered taboo, while female homosexuality is accepted or even met with approval. Of course female homosexuality is most accepted when it's expressed in a heterosexual context. That is, when the sexual activity takes place in film clips aimed at a heterosexual male audience. But even when it comes to exclusive lesbians, the accept is greater than the accept of male gays.

This subject is not just about discrimination of homosexuals as it is often claimed to be. It is as much about the discrimination of men.

Women have a greater range of accepted roles. For instance, they can often choose to be adult or child and they can choose career or family. Men have a much narrower range of roles to choose from.

Some feminists will say, that these men are oppressed by the "patriarchy" into these narrow roles. One could suspect that the concept of "patriarchy" is an attempt to cure the feminist theory, to explain how women can be oppressors, by stating that they are somehow working for the top males. Never the less men are oppressed. And that by both men AND women.

Love – a human right?

Conservative feminists and others, having adopted the classical idea, that the woman is weak and a victim, have chosen to condemn prostitution as the exploitation of women by men.

These feminists hold, that sex is not a human right. But why not? Sex and love are parts of a healthy life. Sexuality is a basic need, that some people in the western world cannot have fulfilled the usual way, because they're too fat, ugly, unintelligent or handicapped. Compared to this complicated and basic problem of inequality, which is rarely discussed in Denmark, the debate on equal pay seems pale. It's basically only about money, and not about the basic need to feel loved and to enjoy the attention of the opposite sex.