TW: brief right wing discussion
I was just on the National Organization for Marriage website, and an observation I made is that the people who are involved in this organization are fixated on “same sex marriage” as an idea. As in, to them it does not affect people. They want the freedom to broadcast those kinds of ideas as merely abstract realities, disconnected from the people who these ideas affect.
This kind of idea-people disconnection is usually called an “intellectual exercise.” It is the exercise of privilege, and it is important to watch out if this happens to you and work to connect the two.
An example of an intellectual exercise could be the oft quoted male-saying: “Since you’re saying that men shouldn’t hit women, what if a woman were to hit a man?”