Hetero pride Go-Go

So, remember when I wrote about some weird things I've encountered here in Italy? Remember how I said that I'd also talk about some weird Finnish things in order to balance things out?

Well, here goes.

In Finland these days there's a great concern about the rights of the heterosexual people. And rightly so. You can't turn left or right without hearing how the gay people should have the right to get married in a church or adopt kiddies. It's all gaygaygay, all day, 24/7. All of this interest in the gay community is causing the poor little heterosexual to feel all neglected. "What about my rights?", they're asking.

Well don't you worry poor little heterosexual. In Finland we have this thing called Hetero Pride.

Story on NYT-magazine (in Finnish, sorry...)

So there's this dude, a heterosexual called Jani Salomaa who's a bit angry because the gays are getting too much attention. If you ask him, they're being put on a pedestal, they reach high government positions and star in TV shows, all because they're gay. Not because they deserve to be there, but because they're gay. Well, that's just not right, now is it? According to him, normal people (as in heterosexual people) aren't valued anymore, and it's all because of the gay people. Gay people are ruining the lives of the heterosexuals. Poor little heterosexual, whatcha gonna do now?

You're going to organize a Hetero Pride Event. That's what.

Apparently they had this thing, a protest if you will, in front of the parliament last Saturday to promote the rights of the heterosexuals. A big crowd of people wearing jeans and flannel-shirts, with a 10€ hair cut and a whole lot of bad taste to go with it. Maybe there was an accordion player to keep the protesters merry, and some coffee and pretzels for the ones who hadn't eaten yet. Sounds like a good ol' time to me.

I wonder what the arguments were.
"I want to enforce my right to have sex once a week with my wife/husband (that I married in a church), on a Saturday after the sauna!"
"I want to secure my right to go in a bar after work on a Friday, drink beer, burb and scratch my ass and not have fun until I pass out"
"I want to be sure that I can read dirty magazines, get caught and be looked down upon by my wife (or a husband)"

Well I'd say that these are definitely things to hang on to.

I was travelling this summer and found this really nice restaurant. I ate there 3 nights in a row, not only because the food was delicious, but because the staff was absolutely delightful (actually, I entered the restaurant in the first place because I saw a cute guy go in wearing a waiter's outfit, and I just had to meet him in person). Anyway, on my last night there I found out that almost all of the people working in the restaurant were gay. Also the cute guy I craved after.

Now, did I start thinking that "oh my goodness this is discrimination, there are almost no heterosexual waiters here!!"?? "Is the cook heterosexual? No??!! Oh no, all this time I've been eating food that's SO GAY" "Better go wash my tongue now".

No. What the hell do I care what their sexual preferences are. I'm not there to have sex, I'm there to eat. And I have to say, if this is the service you get with gay waiters, I wish all restaurants were like that.

Now, I'm not pro gay, nor am I pro hetero. I'm just a person who thinks that if I'm allowed to stalk a cute guy in a restaurant, so should everybody else. People that love each other should have the right to be married, and also the right to be divorced when they can't stand each other anymore. A child should be loved, and that's all I have to say about that. I don't think this Hetero Pride thing had much sense, but if it made someone feel better or more secure then more power to them.

Live and let live. And die. And all the pretty little things in between.