Don't Diversity

I'm a 20 year old student studying a degree in Television Production at the Grimsby Institute of Further and Higher Education; I am exceptional at playing guitar and I like the have the odd pint of Cider at the Lloyds Arms in Grimsby, or in Willy's Pub and Brewery in Cleethorpes. None of this has any relevance to anybody else. If I weren't an extrovert, I would have most certainly dropped off of everyone else's radar except my own mother's; it's common sense. I'm sure that nobody cares what I had for breakfast, or even if I had breakfast (I didn't, but I did wake up to a Godly sunday lunch).

However, what if I were to come out as being a homosexual? The government would perhaps say "This is a prime example of freedom in our country!" GIFHE would point out their many posters saying "DIVERSITY!" and "My son's a homophobe, but I hope it's just a phase..." Friends would hug me warmly, but with a sprinkle of trepidation, wailing "I'M SO HAPPY FOR YOU!" while others wait in line to humble my apparent sexuality. There would be fireworks scattered across the sky saying "It's OK to be gay! It's DIVERSE and COOL, HIP, FAB..." while North East Lincolnshire embraced each other and sang a remix of God Save the Queen. Alright, perhaps not the latter, but certainly there would be a massive furor if someone came out as being gay.

Now imagine if I turned around to my friends and said "I'm a heterosexual." Their reaction would be "...and?", immediately followed by the conversation being placed in a guillotine. If I saw someone on webcam and they said "I'm white British", I'd say "Tell me something I don't know" and then continue to do whatever one does while on the internet at three in the morning.

Nobody cares about the obvious, it's always been there. So why is it that there are so many mascots for "diversity" and "equality" if everyone's already supposed to be on level footing? If it's hegemonic to be heterosexual, then surely because it's legal, recognised and has been here for thousands of years, then homosexual people are also equal. I wouldn't cast you a dirty look if you died your hair bright blue (though you should seriously reconsider your lifestyle choices if you were considering it), so if your skin's white; green; black; yellow; turquoise; khaki then good on you, you probably look more interesting then my sunlight-free patchy mess of a body.

In my opinion the best way to combat any issue with diversity is to deal with it head on and not skirt around it like your secret love for Coldplay; even though your friends think it's fashionable to hate them, they could never write anything near as good as their masterpiece, "Fix You". Common sense is versatile and free, so use it. Posters will solve nothing.