How openminded are we truly?

[hankhavelock]

How openminded are we truly?

I watched an interesting movie last night called "Normal" starring the beautiful Jessica Lange - it was to some extent right up my alley as it dealt with transsexual matters.

The interesting aspect was that the husband eventually came out in the open exclaiming his true gender identity as a woman - at a late age. And the movie then dealt with that issue in a very sober way. I actually have a Danish transsexual chatfriend who went through just that.

I started thinking about this... I adore transwomen (especially my gorgeous little Asian ones) and I claim to be a very openminded guy... however, how would I have reacted, had it been my farther whom at a late age suddenly came out of the closet as a trans? I'm not so sure my openmindedness would have encompassed that too... I really thought about this. I'm sure, that should I ever have a child, and should that child be transsexual, no problem. BUT it was disturbing to me to realize that had it been my father being transsexual, then I would have had a problem.

And why is that? Probably because to me a transwoman is someone who gets my sexual attention... and I don't want to give sexual attention to my father. I don't know...

Luckily this never happened, but the movie did make me think and in a sense challenge my own openmindedness.

I'm surrounded by absolutely gorgeous transsexual women, and I wouldn't have it any other way, but this movie forced me to go a bit deeper in scrutinizing my own openness when it gets really close. It also made me feel a bit ashamed, because I realized that my openmindedness has limits, and I'm not so sure I like that.

So it would seem that I'm very far from perfect...