Long ago, when I started college, seeing couples with vastly different skin color shocked me. Not disapproval, mind, just struck me as odd, in a visceral way. After a while, I simply stopped noticing. Seeing same sex couples was a shortened version of the same process. Like seeing anything new and unexpected, until it just became background, unremarkable and ultimately invisible.
Seems to me the whole country is going through this, with a lot more people so disturbed by the unfamiliar sensations that they react with hostility. Most folks, though, are adjusting, shrugging and getting on, to varying degrees.
The universe changes, and the strange becomes the ordinary.
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The last ones to break through will be the transgendered. I know two people that I have met personally but who live far, and a third who lives close who have all transferred, and two out of three indicate how difficult it has been and continues to be. The third changed continents in the midst of the change and so was 'she' in the old country and 'he' in the new one.
Phil,
I'm sure you are right, sadly. Unsettles people, even though it really doesn't affect them personally.
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