Hi there, long time no speak.
Any reader in the UK would be familiar with this story: Lesbian couple open first ''gay-only' fertility clinic
I was just watching an indepth discussion surrounding the matter on a UK breakfast television programme This Morning. The lesbian couple in question were part of the debate, and opposing them was your typical 'I'm not a homophobe but...' Christian woman who went on and on about how the clinic would cost the taxpayer (it wasn't paid for by taxpayer's money at all) and how babies needed fathers.
I have to ask: how on earth do we cope with the constant pressure of heterosexism? Does it ever get better? On TV there are perfect straight couples surrounded with smiling children as they advertise a new sofa or breakfast cereal or the latest dating website. Though we have more rights than ever, it seems we are still viewed as being 'different' and 'abnormal'. Does that get easier to deal with?
it does with time but it probably shouldn't, we defiantly have a global problem with media representation.
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