/u/NoHeresyHere on "oh you're ace? You didn't look like you were boring"

Imagine looking at all the art, beauty and genius of what mankind is capable of creating, all the variety of music, writing, painting, all the capacity for physical skills and prowess, the sheer bottomless depths of self-expression a human is capable of producing...and saying someone is boring because they don't partake in one very specific activity.

Think about it. Think about what a disservice it is to everything humans can say and do that someone could consider you boring because you don't have sex.

As if all the limitless variety of human creativity and expression are just...totally irrelevant. As if all the ways humans can find and make meaning of their lives and the world around them amount to nothing. As if, out of everything you can say and do in this world, your passion and love for life are dependent purely on one activity.

Someone who doesn't have sex isn't boring, just the same as someone who has sex isn't necessarily interesting.

There's so much more to life and reducing it all to the pursuit and enjoyment of sex just seems so...reductionist.

March 11, 2021 at 11:54PM