Wouldn't be better to stay inside the closet and peep the outside world through the keyhole?

No, If you stay in the closet, you will always be an outsider.

so to speak

Why hide away? If you’re someone’s else’s skeleton, you are under no obligation to keep quiet. It’s their problem to cover you up if they are ashamed.

I’d bust the door down and get out of that whole shitty house.

No way! Life has it ups and downs, but hide in a closet and not live? Live in fear? Not a chance.

There are no skeletons if you use lots of lye and bury the bodies REALLY deep.

To quote Harvey Milk, “Come out!”

@DrBill Hey, I didn’t see it from that point of view. Very interesting your comment. To stay inside is, in some sense to stay out.
@asmonet Another different angle. If I’m someone else’s skeleton it’s not my problem so my duty is to fight back and come to light (sounds like Wheel of Time). No matter what?

There are certain secrets I never want to tell, knowing it would have no benefits to air them. So yes, I suppose.

Good example of carrying a metaphor past the point where it’s meaningful.

Closets have keyholes?

Isn’t that exactly what we do on the computer?

If you’re the skeleton in the closet, then yes, you generally want to stay in the closet. That’s the whole point. It’s when skeletons get out of closets that the shit hits the fan.

As to the keyhole—is there any point? If the skeleton is peeping out, isn’t there a better chance someone will see and open the door? No. If skeletons can’t stay in their coffins, and must inhabit closets, then it should be in the dark, keyhole-less.

There are days when when I do believe that’s true. I still haven’t figured out how to stay employed that way, though.

@bea2345 Yes, when I was a child, at my granny’s home all the closets had keyholes and their correspondent keys. They were old and impressive and I always thought the whole family would fit inside any of them.
@daloon Of course there’s a better chance someone opens the door. But, wouldn’t most people be afraid to look inside that closet?

The keyhole was too small for my purposes. I came out of the closet many years ago and I’ve never looked back.

@Maldadpermanente “wouldn’t most people be afraid to look inside that closet?”

I’m not so sure about that. From what I’ve heard here, most people do want to look in. There are one or two who know what’s in the closet, and choose not to look in it, but most see to want to know what’s in there, even though they know it could hurt them badly.

I think people overlook the closet sometimes, because they feel they have no other choice. To open it would be to bring a lot of nasty stuff to light, and could threaten everything they have. They are willing to ignore the closet in order to maintain stability.

The people who have to open the closet—maybe they are really angry, and don’t think about the consequences? Maybe they think truth is more important than anything. Maybe they are strong enough to go it alone if what they find in the closet changes the world as they know it.

People might be afraid of what they’ll find, but somehow, they can’t resist opening the door. It’s like in all the horror movies. We all know what’s behind the door, and we’re yelling at the heroine to not open the door, and she has to know what’s in there—it’s so obvious—and still, she chooses to open the door. Maybe in humans, there is an urge to open that door to find out what’s in there, no matter how dangerous it is.

@daloon there is an urge to open that door to find out what’s in there, no matter how dangerous it is. that’s Pandora’s Box all over again.

@Maldadpermanente when I was a child closets did not have keyholes, although they sometimes had locks. My sister and I always regarded a closet as different from a cupboard. The former was big enough to hide inside, and was usually fastened on the outside with a hook and nail or a bolt. The latter was smaller, and was commonly found in kitchens.

IS THIS A GAY JOKE?
I DONT GET IT

@DIVIDEandCONQUER: That’s probably for the best.