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Society is making me sick tonight.
I have always thought I was ok with who I am and certain unchangeable things about myself, and that with that thought and my personal acceptance of myself I could feel at least a slight bit normal and fit into societal norms.
I thought going to college and away from the small town would help me escape one word that has haunted me since I accepted myself when I was ten. But the homophobia follows me here too.
I will never be able to show affection in public.
I will never be fully accepted by any community I live in.
I will never have job security.
I will never be able to be married.
I will never be seen as equal.
And all for the mere fact of who I love. Even in a country that boasts its freedom and acceptance of all people.
All because society has deemed it not okay to be a homosexual.
Homophobia. What a bullshit term. The fear of homosexuals. Homophobia is not a fear, it’s an excuse.
An excuse to hate someone because of who they love.
An excuse to hit someone you do not understand.
An excuse to kill innocent people.
An excuse to take the rights from a minority group.
An excuse fully backed up by our government and others around the world
This gives people the okay to kill a gay kid because of “identity issues” to tell a bullied child that it’s their fault and to be more discreet about their personal lives, and the okay to treat another human as inferior for something I can guarantee they did not choose themselves.
The most disheartening part is where this “phobia” originates from. The rise of Christianity I learned tonight brought about the rise of homophobia. It was the Christians who led the way to massacres, laws, and thousands of years of hatred to who they used to call sodomites. Which really leads me to question the values I have looked to for so long, and the people I looked to for strength when I was without it.
They say we will kill off the human race, that it is our fault there is suffering in the world that homosexuals are trying to destroy the family, or destroy the sanctity of marriage. If anything the normative families have done a perfect job themselves of destroying the family and sanctity of marriage.
There are laws and prejudices against us donating blood, fighting in wars, getting married, having children, and countless other things.
Well as an individual, believe me I do not want to donate blood to, fight for, get married in, or start a family in a country that will not grant me the civil fucking rights I, and all others deserve.
Who gave the Christians, the politicians, the heterosexuals the dominance of governing what is right or not right, what kind of love is lawful or accepted. It’s a fucked up hierarchy.
And even though there is the LGBT movements, revokes of laws, granting of marriages, I am still so fucking pessimistic for the future. Because you can easily change a system in society, but that doesn’t mean that the people of that society change as well. Homophobia has already been created, and I know that it will never be fully destroyed.
I did not choose who I am. But I will choose to stand up for myself and for others. I wish I could be optimistic and say “things will change” “it will get better” but I really feel that I can’t.
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Post: #608629  , Tue 24 Jan 12, 7:35AM |
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:: Kala
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Okay I so totally get that, this was my rant over the weekend as a few people on here would know.
You just got to realise (and I just got to realise) that we can control what WE what to think.
We can only but hope for those who hate us because honestly; they're missing out on US. How crazy are they?!
It makes me sick to think about the society I will be bringing my kids up in. But me and my SO can bring them up RIGHT.
We can tell them the things that are right; that who we are isn't wrong. That being yourself and loving another person isn't wrong.
And maybe; by the time they're grown up; by the time their kids have grown up. The world would of accepted us for US. Because people like us; We are AMAZING.
<3
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