“Mainstream people dislike homosexuality because they can’t help concentrating on what homosexual men do to one another. And when you contemplate what people do, you think of yourself doing it. And they don’t like that. That’s the famous joke: I don’t like peas, and I’m glad I don’t like them, because if I liked them I would eat them and I hate them.”
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Quentin Crisp, The Celluloid Closet (1995) (via bohemea)
I thought of this quote from the AMAZING documentary about gay and lesbian themes in cinema when I saw some immature and self-focued attitudes towards polyamory make their way around tumblr yesterday. I think that this little joke the indulliable Quentin Crisp says about peas is something we should all remember when encountering something sexual that we’re not into.
If you don’t like something, then don’t do it. But don’t cast your dislike for it on those who enjoy it, because some of us have happily enjoyed peas for our entire adult life (and don’t feel the need to justify ourselves.)
(via suicideblonde)
AMEN.