Quote Originally Posted by leo9 View Post
When I see another flat statement that this is how men are, this is how women are, it's nature's way, you can't fight it... then I feel someone is once again trying to shove me (and my lovers and playmates, not to mention my children) back into boxes that never fitted us, that crushed us out of shape till we were able to break free. It denies not only my experience but my deepest feelings, and I can't help taking it personally.

I never, ever deny that you or anyone else feel the way you feel, are the way you are, have the nature you have. All I ever ask is that you return the courtesy, and allow that maybe the way I am is as "natural" and as real as the way you are, and that I (and the people I've known and loved) are not some weird unhealthy deviation from your natural wholesome norm. I get enough of that from mainstream puritans: I don't need it here.
You said it for me too, MyLord, much better than I could. Thank you.