How much software documentation have you written?!? I picked that one because it's one I like... but doesn't scratch the itch to write songs. Nonfiction writing is still creative.
A fair amount, actually. In fact, I've done both business-related writing and nonfiction journalism professionally, so I think I have a really good grasp of how much software documentation fulfilled my need to create. Which is to say, it fucking didn't.
There are people who aren't driven to create? I thought it was a basic human drive, like sex. That anyone who doesn't have it is considered weird and broken by most people, and that evolution had pretty much removed people who don't have it from the gene pool, so the lack only shows up in the occasional mutation.
I am going to assume that this is another one of your hyperbole games and that you don't actually believe it. Yes, there are people for whom the drive to create seems to be missing or to be very weak. I know many. I am related to some.
"Find multiple outlets" is not the same as "any of these outlets will do for any particular inspiration. A person usually lusts after several other people... but that doesn't mean it's reasonable to say "well, this one is closed to you--just switch to someone else."
Um, well, you've already stated that for you, creativity and sexuality are the same thing, so there's no point in arguing this. For me, they aren't. The act of creating and the act of sex may each bring similar feelings, but whereas I am pretty much consistently attracted to men, I am equally fulfilled by various kinds of writing, by performing music or theater, or creating some kind of visual or physical art. I write a lot of fanfic, but I never feel like only that and that alone will satisfy me.
(Deep breath; this is where you write me off as a total wingnut and decide I'm not worth replying to anymore. Or that you'll continue to bicker with me, but have concluded that I'm an utter waste of bandwidth and any goal I support is at best, of dubious value, because if a crackpot like me can be in favor of it, it must have serious problems.)
No, apparently this is where you get to paint me as a closed-minded judgmental jerk. So, you know... thanks for that.
I get that for you, creativity and sexuality are somehow the same. I accept that you believe that. I think, however, that it's a mistake to proceed in the public sphere as though this is a universally accepted truth and make over the top arguments that rely on that principle, and then use the "well, in my religion, it's so" argument to deal with people who beg to differ.
I know what I want to write and who I want to fuck, too. And yeah, the drives are CONNECTED. To me, at least, they are not identical, and they definitely don't say, "Write fanfic and nothing else!"
I'm not the least bit interested in defining your sexuality. Sorry, I didn't think it was necessary to state that outright earlier.
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A fair amount, actually. In fact, I've done both business-related writing and nonfiction journalism professionally, so I think I have a really good grasp of how much software documentation fulfilled my need to create. Which is to say, it fucking didn't.
There are people who aren't driven to create? I thought it was a basic human drive, like sex. That anyone who doesn't have it is considered weird and broken by most people, and that evolution had pretty much removed people who don't have it from the gene pool, so the lack only shows up in the occasional mutation.
I am going to assume that this is another one of your hyperbole games and that you don't actually believe it. Yes, there are people for whom the drive to create seems to be missing or to be very weak. I know many. I am related to some.
"Find multiple outlets" is not the same as "any of these outlets will do for any particular inspiration. A person usually lusts after several other people... but that doesn't mean it's reasonable to say "well, this one is closed to you--just switch to someone else."
Um, well, you've already stated that for you, creativity and sexuality are the same thing, so there's no point in arguing this. For me, they aren't. The act of creating and the act of sex may each bring similar feelings, but whereas I am pretty much consistently attracted to men, I am equally fulfilled by various kinds of writing, by performing music or theater, or creating some kind of visual or physical art. I write a lot of fanfic, but I never feel like only that and that alone will satisfy me.
(Deep breath; this is where you write me off as a total wingnut and decide I'm not worth replying to anymore. Or that you'll continue to bicker with me, but have concluded that I'm an utter waste of bandwidth and any goal I support is at best, of dubious value, because if a crackpot like me can be in favor of it, it must have serious problems.)
No, apparently this is where you get to paint me as a closed-minded judgmental jerk. So, you know... thanks for that.
I get that for you, creativity and sexuality are somehow the same. I accept that you believe that. I think, however, that it's a mistake to proceed in the public sphere as though this is a universally accepted truth and make over the top arguments that rely on that principle, and then use the "well, in my religion, it's so" argument to deal with people who beg to differ.
I know what I want to write and who I want to fuck, too. And yeah, the drives are CONNECTED. To me, at least, they are not identical, and they definitely don't say, "Write fanfic and nothing else!"
I'm not the least bit interested in defining your sexuality. Sorry, I didn't think it was necessary to state that outright earlier.