Last time I had my thinky cap on, so I was attempting to (poorly) place some thoughts and corollaries into words but I’ve had time to re-read and re-think, so here’s part 2.

Homosexual romances are, of course, not the same type of relationship as  incestuous romances. Actually, other than the fact that each consists of (generally) two people engaged in a romantic/sexual relationship, the two have nothing in common. The common thread I was attempting to draw between the two types of relationships was not one that equated homosexuality and incest.

Instead, I was drawing a parallel between my father’s inexplicable reactions to certain things and my own inexplicable reactions to other things, and trying to imagine my father’s reasons based on my own.  Any judgement or opinionating that occurred was directed towards our reactions to the relationships as opposed to being a judgement of the relationships themselves.

I meant to point out that both of our reactions aren’t logic-based or well thought out at all, but very prejudiced and instinctive. These are feelings that need to be brought out of whatever insidious hiding place they have within the psyche, examined, questioned over and over again, then modified(or not) as life throws new experiences at us.