How do I feel about equality? Is it, perhaps, an idealistic dream, or maybe a dystopian nightmare? I can’t help but notice a terrifying trend in our society attempting to make all things equal. People tinkering with an idea that frankly goes against the very fabric of reality and plausibility. Let me explain.

First let’s go back to the beginning, well not the beginning in the Big Bang sense, just your beginning. When you were a little gay boy or girl and you were hanging out with all the other little people, I bet all you hoped for was: all that love and attention you got, all those fabulous toys and all those stories read to you at night, being equally shared out to everyone else… No?

Let’s look at nature. As you glance about the world you can see thousands of examples of animals and people all neatly equalised, all looking the same, all living in a fair and balance social structure… No? Ok how about Cosmology, when you look at the sky every inch of space you can see, with or without a telescope looks nice and even, almost… equal… No?

Here in lies the problem. At some point we seem to have gone badly wrong. For reasons best known to ourselves we think we want to be treated exactly the same way as everyone else. Well if it doesn’t exist in nature or even in the cosmos, or frankly even within ourselves, how have we managed to convince ourselves that the concept of equality is a good idea. I’m not saying that we shouldn’t believe in what we feel is right and wrong, and what’s fair, in individualised and just treatment; but if you really get down to it none of these things require a state of equilibrium.

Perhaps we’re missing a golden opportunity to make sure that everyone has fair and balanced rights, but are treated as individuals? Why have the same old legal structure to gay marriage, when we have a chance to make up a legal structure designed for our unique needs? Why when it really boils down to it would you want to be treated equally at all? Is it really fair that the person you know at work, the one that’s always slacking, turning up late and messing up, gets paid exactly the same rate as you, the hard working golden boy or girl? Well it doesn’t work like that does it? You get out what you put in and almost all company’s pay and reward based on individual behaviour and performance. That’s fair, but it’s not equal.

To me, equality is a nightmare, a crazy concept that we are all charging headlong toward like lemmings (who incidentally don’t commit mass suicide outside of this analogy). My biggest fear is that when we find ourselves at our final destination, we’ll look around and see a bland and equal world where we all look, behave, act and get treated the same way. If that doesn’t sound even slightly boring to you, then perhaps equality is your thing.