First Thoughts on Straightphobia
This started as a joke on X but now I think it might be a real thing
I am not straight in real life, but here I am writing a blog entry on Substack about Straightphobia, and I am doing it from behind enemy lines deep inside Trudeau’s woke Canada. This country is a dangerous place for freedom of speech (and for honking horns and for body autonomy and for pretty much everything else I believe in), and I have to admit that I am kind of worried about our “hate speech” laws especially given what is going on right now with Ezra Levant, Rebel News, and the truck advertisements in downtown Toronto (since the advertisements are alleged to be Islamophobia). Even though writing this is risky for me, I still want to go ahead and do it.
It all started a few days ago when I saw a post on X about Straightphobia. I found the post to be hilarious. I literally laughed out loud because the author used the term “Straightphobic.” The author seems to be mocking the left by using some of their canned phrases against them. The left would normally say “Black Lives Matter,” not “Straight White Lines Matter.” The left would say that vandalizing a crosswalk is “homophobic” not “straightphobic” and so on.
Now in real life I am an insomniac, so I am usually downstairs preparing my breakfast all alone at around 4:30 a.m. every morning. So this morning, as I was eating my breakfast, I was thinking about the term Straightphobia. Yesterday on Facebook one of my Trump hating friends had told me that Straightphobia does not exist. So at breakfast I was pondering the opposite thought, namely, that perhaps Straightphobia does actually exist. Maybe Canadian society is oppressing straight people. The purpose of this blog article is for me to write about some of these early morning thoughts.
Probably inspired by something Elon Musk had posted on X a few weeks ago, I began my thought process by asking myself some questions. Why does society exist? What is the purpose of society? What is society trying to achieve? Why do we belong to society? How do we benefit from being part of society? I guessed that Elon Musk would respond to these questions by saying that the purpose of society is to raise the next generation of children so that they eventually become healthy adults.
People making up a society have to make one extremely important choice. If the society chooses the importance of having more children then that society will continue to exist. If society does not defend the importance of having children then that society will go extinct. This seems to imply that “pro-social behavior” (i.e., behavior that stops societal suicide) is behavior that encourages women to have more children, and it also seems to imply that “anti-social behavior” (i.e., behavior that encourages societal suicide) is behavior that discourages women from having more children. From this, I draw some observations and some conclusions.
Canada is, obviously, engaged in a deliberate attempt at societal suicide, or what I am calling “anti-social behavior.” I often watch CTV News Toronto, and sometimes, when I am feeling brave, I will also watch the View (which is also broadcast on CTV). (The View is basically a one-sided Trump-bashing TV show). I have never heard them say anything to encourage a young man and a young woman to get married and then have a bunch of kids. I have never heard them tell women that they should stay at home and raise their kids. Never! The basic societal message in Canada found on TV and also pushed in the schools and by our politicians is fairly obvious; we are trying to achieve ZERO fertility. This is all fairly obvious.1 In other words, Canadian society is designed to eliminate the basic purpose of straight sex, namely, to make babies. I suppose one could say that Canadian society operates with an irrational fear or “phobia” towards straight sex, and this constitutes Straightphobia.
The other observation I want to make is that this way of thinking does seem to explain why society used to discriminate against homosexuals (and the other groups the left loves to defend). If the purpose of society is to successfully raise the next generation of children and to prevent societal extinction then it makes logical sense for society to defend activities that produce more children and for society to punish activities that produce fewer or zero children. Since homosexuality tends to drive down the fertility rate, a society operating under my stated assumptions would want to punish, marginalize, discourage, reduce, restrict etc. homosexual activities. In fact, such a society would probably want to eliminate leftism in its entirety.
This concludes my early morning pondering about the existence of Straightphobia. I freely admit that I am worried about publishing this blog post because I am not sure if my thesis is correct (my assumptions might be wrong, for example) and because I am terrified of the kind of response I will get if some woke person or Canadian government censor (i.e., the “hate speech police”) were to read my blog. I still feel that I should publish this simply because publishing it will help me build my self-confidence. I have many strong political opinions but I am usually too afraid to mention them. So I hope I can change myself and become stronger and more confident in expressing myself openly.
In Canada we have unrestricted access to abortion. I believe we are about to get unlimited free access to contraceptives. The government is happy to chop my penis off and give me a man-made vagina if I ask for one. They are also eager to give out doctor assisted suicides. Apparently the United States and Germany (and presumably Canada and other NATO allies as well) are going to bring back the military draft in order to fight Russia directly, which implies killing off lots of young people. The carbon taxes seem to imply that human life is bad because it destroys the environment. In other words, I honestly cannot think of anything pro-life going on in Canadian society.