This blog is in response to Friday's 'Genevieve's Gems'. The word 'normal' in Funk and Wagnalls' standard dictionary is defined as ' comforming to or consisting of a pattern regarded as typical of a specific group. Conforming piqued my interest because conforming can come naturally or be forced upon its subjects. This is done when stronger cultures take over other cultures. The slave trade, the Inqusition, homophobia and transphobia are examples of this.
There are countless LGBTQI men and women who are harrassed, vilified, and even killed because they do not conform to the gender binary construct of what male and female are supposed to be. What things ought to be and what they actually are is two different matters....

to be continued