“People fall in love with individuals, not with a sex.” This quote from the reading hit me as one of the most interesting quotes from this set of readings. When I first read it I thought about all the conversations I had had with my best friends that always ended up somehow saying “if you were a guy we would be the perfect the couple.” We have known each other since kindergarten, we know just about everything about each other, we are basically the same person, we get along better than any other set of best friends then I know. So if this quote were true, if we did fall in love with a person and not with their sex, me and my best friend would be dating, but we are not, because we don’t fall in love with a person regardless of their sex, sex is one of the first things that attracts you to someone, you look at them and say “you’re a boy, I like boys, you might just be attractive.”
I think it would be interesting to live in a place where this was true, where you did fall in love with someone purely based on their personality and how well you got along with them, and it had nothing to do with a persons sex. I wonder if this would lead to more same sex partnerships or if there would still be the traditional idea of opposite sex partners. I feel like traditionally we identify more with our own sex so I wonder if that would play a role in who would fall in love with. I also wonder if one gender would be more open to idea of falling in love with a person and not with someone’s sex.
-Emily Suchyta
A lot of interesting ideas to think about here!
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