Oh, it stalls, or at least slows. Some people are absolutely NOT over the shock yet (a friend was just telling me yesterday, about how his mother was ranting on about gay people after an afternoon trip to San Francisco). Some slices of society, still a minority I'd say, are mostly desensitized-- many others are way behind. It's something on TV, it's not -real-. The way people have been voting makes this pretty clear. I sure hope that things will be speeding up, what with the way information spreads nowadays, but it's hard to tell.
And I mean... even back in countries/periods where homosexual behavior was accepted, even encouraged.. like, say, the ancient Greeks or Romans, it was STILL distorted and handled bizarrely-- all that sex with little boys, and women being filthy baby-factories with no souls, etc. It takes more than exposure or acceptance, it takes people in general being NOT assholes. No wonder it takes so long.
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Date: 2007-04-12 10:45 pm (UTC)And I mean... even back in countries/periods where homosexual behavior was accepted, even encouraged.. like, say, the ancient Greeks or Romans, it was STILL distorted and handled bizarrely-- all that sex with little boys, and women being filthy baby-factories with no souls, etc. It takes more than exposure or acceptance, it takes people in general being NOT assholes. No wonder it takes so long.