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Homosexuality
Oct. 12th, 2007 02:33 pmApparently today is National Coming Out day in the US. Several people on my friends list have mentioned it.
So.
To those people I know who have come out (or in the case of the crossdressing guy in one of my Linguistics courses, are so 'out' that there was no need to 'come' in the first place), I'm proud of you. May your example help it become commonplace enough that coming out will no longer be a big deal and there won't need to be public awareness days for it.
To the people at my work who've (variously) said that being gay means that God made a mistake, that it's unnatural, that you're scared that one or more of your kids might come out sometime in the future, or that gay people shouldn't have kids or be part of families with kids because it's wrong, I can't respect that. It's people like you who are making it so difficult for them. Grow up already. PS. I think the new store second-in-charge is gay. Hope your tolerance for gays extends far enough to allow yourself to be managed by one.
To the governments who think that by closing their eyes they can somehow make it not happen, you're all idiots.
That goes double to the religions who think that by condemning it as unnatural they can stop it. All that leads to is people who've been indoctrinated to believe that they're fundamentally wrong, or that God made them that way as a test, or some crap like that, but in any case the only real way to deal with it is to either deny it or be completely celibate their whole life because they have no place in God's plan.
I'm not sure why this is such a big issue for me. I'm as sure as I can be right now that I'm straight*. Maybe it's because Hein is such a close friend and I've seen how tough it can be. Or maybe it's just an extension of my deep-seated belief in equality, and this is one of the most commonly stigmatised things out there, so it's easy to champion it. I dunno.
*This wasn't always the case. For a while I was leaning towards thinking that I must be either asexual or lesbian since all my friends were gushing about this guy and that guy and isn't he good-looking and none of the guys I knew had any of those effects on me.
So.
To those people I know who have come out (or in the case of the crossdressing guy in one of my Linguistics courses, are so 'out' that there was no need to 'come' in the first place), I'm proud of you. May your example help it become commonplace enough that coming out will no longer be a big deal and there won't need to be public awareness days for it.
To the people at my work who've (variously) said that being gay means that God made a mistake, that it's unnatural, that you're scared that one or more of your kids might come out sometime in the future, or that gay people shouldn't have kids or be part of families with kids because it's wrong, I can't respect that. It's people like you who are making it so difficult for them. Grow up already. PS. I think the new store second-in-charge is gay. Hope your tolerance for gays extends far enough to allow yourself to be managed by one.
To the governments who think that by closing their eyes they can somehow make it not happen, you're all idiots.
That goes double to the religions who think that by condemning it as unnatural they can stop it. All that leads to is people who've been indoctrinated to believe that they're fundamentally wrong, or that God made them that way as a test, or some crap like that, but in any case the only real way to deal with it is to either deny it or be completely celibate their whole life because they have no place in God's plan.
I'm not sure why this is such a big issue for me. I'm as sure as I can be right now that I'm straight*. Maybe it's because Hein is such a close friend and I've seen how tough it can be. Or maybe it's just an extension of my deep-seated belief in equality, and this is one of the most commonly stigmatised things out there, so it's easy to champion it. I dunno.
*This wasn't always the case. For a while I was leaning towards thinking that I must be either asexual or lesbian since all my friends were gushing about this guy and that guy and isn't he good-looking and none of the guys I knew had any of those effects on me.
