Pride Day

On Twitter, the hashtag #HeterosexualPrideDay is trending, as today is somebody's idea for yet another stupid holiday. Unfortunately, too many people concentrate on the "heterosexual" part of the day, and ignore the really bad part: Pride.

There is a reason pride is considered one of the Seven Deadly Sins. Wikipedia describes it this way:

...it is identified as dangerously corrupt selfishness, the putting of one's own desires, urges, wants, and whims before the welfare of people. 

In even more destructive cases, it is possessing the irrational belief that one is automatically and essentially better or more important than others, failing to acknowledge the accomplishments of others, and excessive admiration of the personal image or self (especially forgetting one's own lack of divinity, and refusing to acknowledge one's own limits, faults, or wrongs as a human being).

So what is "Heterosexual Pride"? Heterosexuality is a basic part of nature for all mammals, so it isn't even something uniquely human. Of course, there is homosexuality in nature too, so that isn't special either, yet we still have multiple "Gay Pride" days/months. The truth is that sexuality is a fairly silly thing to celebrate. It's like having a "People with Big Noses Day".

Then there is the counter argument: But gay people have been oppressed for centuries! Heterosexual people haven't been oppressed? I have been news for the oppressed gay people of the world: Every kind of human imaginable has been oppressed at one time or another in history, and for any number of reasons. You ain't as special as you may think. Whatever specific physical trait you have that has caused your recent oppression is merely the result of small-minded people trying to make themselves feel better at your expense. So celebrating pride in your "quality" is only your way to get back at those small-minded people. In other words, you are doing unto them what they did unto you.

This leads us back to Heterosexual Pride Day, which should come as a wake-up call to the homosexuals that they are over-celebrating their touchdown. You won your civil rights victory, now it's time to go back to the sidelines and prepare for the next play, because you are NOT just a homosexual: You may be a man or a woman, a black or a white or an Asian, young or old, or something else altogether. But you ARE human, and as such you have both rights and responsibilities as a human, along with all the rights and responsibilities you have for every other aspect of your human identity.