Thursday, April 24, 2008
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Homophobia.
Everyone knows that the term gay has lost it's meaning. It has been forgotten, over ruled, and recreated. When something is -gay- we find it stupid, wrong, inconvenient, aggravating, and simply not taken seriously.
We need to stop doing this. We need to start using the word in proper context, and look a little harder to find a different adjective for when we get angry, intolerant, irratated, or when we think that something is 'foolish looking'(for lack of a better term).
It is not wrong to like, love or desire someone of the same sex. We cannot control our inner emotions. Yes, we can control how we deal with them, but we can't simply stop loving someone because of their gender. Values are constantly changing amoung our population, and we should not be justifying our actions and behaviors towards these people. We need to respect their differences. Respect their preferences. Respect their values. Respect their freedom to choose who is right for them.
"Within the typical secondary school curriculum, homosexuals do not exist. They are 'nonpersons' in the finest Stalinist sense. They have fought no battles, held no offices, explored nowhere, written no literature, built nothing, invented nothing and solved no equations. The lesson to the heterosexual student is abundantly clear: homosexuals do nothing of consequence. To the homosexual student, the message has even greater power: no one who has ever felt as you do has done anything worth mentioning." -Gerald Unks, editor, The Gay Teen, p. 5.
I really like this quote because it is true. When we learn by example, we really act on influence. We almost subliminally accept events that have happened before. History has been written by white men, because 50 years ago, yes, they were the ones in control. But the only history we ever learn about is World War I, World War II...(basically!!). Some can choose to continue with history if they enjoyed the course, but again, those are the ones who choose to.
I think it's important that we learn more about different perspectives, and the information is out there for us to learn.
The history we learn in this day in age, isn't teaching me how I can change history today.
I want to know about the women who have risked their lives to change the values of our society. I want to know about the minorities- who didn't rest until change was made. I want to learn about the rebels, about the treaties, about the changes.
We need to stop doing this. We need to start using the word in proper context, and look a little harder to find a different adjective for when we get angry, intolerant, irratated, or when we think that something is 'foolish looking'(for lack of a better term).
It is not wrong to like, love or desire someone of the same sex. We cannot control our inner emotions. Yes, we can control how we deal with them, but we can't simply stop loving someone because of their gender. Values are constantly changing amoung our population, and we should not be justifying our actions and behaviors towards these people. We need to respect their differences. Respect their preferences. Respect their values. Respect their freedom to choose who is right for them.
"Within the typical secondary school curriculum, homosexuals do not exist. They are 'nonpersons' in the finest Stalinist sense. They have fought no battles, held no offices, explored nowhere, written no literature, built nothing, invented nothing and solved no equations. The lesson to the heterosexual student is abundantly clear: homosexuals do nothing of consequence. To the homosexual student, the message has even greater power: no one who has ever felt as you do has done anything worth mentioning." -Gerald Unks, editor, The Gay Teen, p. 5.
I really like this quote because it is true. When we learn by example, we really act on influence. We almost subliminally accept events that have happened before. History has been written by white men, because 50 years ago, yes, they were the ones in control. But the only history we ever learn about is World War I, World War II...(basically!!). Some can choose to continue with history if they enjoyed the course, but again, those are the ones who choose to.
I think it's important that we learn more about different perspectives, and the information is out there for us to learn.
The history we learn in this day in age, isn't teaching me how I can change history today.
I want to know about the women who have risked their lives to change the values of our society. I want to know about the minorities- who didn't rest until change was made. I want to learn about the rebels, about the treaties, about the changes.
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