sameens-shaw:

hate2breakittoya:

lots of straight people’s personalities can be summed up as “straight”, it’s just that they and we are encouraged to instead call it and view it as “normal”

the only reason they don’t think about their romantic struggles and fawning over hot people etc as “being visibly straight” is because their sexuality is seen as the norm and they can afford to do all that without raising any eyebrows

it’s always easier to be yourself when you don’t have to attach an “other” to every aspect of your life

This is EXACTLY what I was thinking, like there are all those posts that go ‘straight people – unlike lgbp people – are never expected to make their straightness an insignificant part of their identity’ – obviously that is true and I fully agree – but I feel like they don’t even notice it’s such an important part, so if you told them in the words of posts like that, they’d still think it isn’t a big part of their identity, because they don’t realise that. Because they don’t realise how much your sexuality actually impacts your identity, because to them it’s just “normal”.

They only see lgbp people who are probably not really expressing their sexuality around them – guess why – and think that it’s a part that’s not really important to them cause they don’t express it and, well, their straightness isn’t important to them either. But they just can’t relate to lgbp people in that sense, because they don’t realise how important sexuality is to your life, because they are “normal” and not the “other” who have to police themselves all the time in their expression because doing it otherwise would be actually dangerous. They just can’t get it.