Hey everyone! How are you,
did you know that today is the international day of Against Homophobia,
Biphobia, and Transphobia, which is to help spread awareness of homophobia,
biphobia and transphobia as well as stand together as a community against
discrimination of our work.
I was teen when The OC had a
lesbian romance in there storyline. Granted this wasn’t a good thing for us
lovers of the show, not because it was a lesbian storyline, I can never
remember that being a big deal. And I mean outside the catcalls and crap of teen
boys liking to see two chick make-out, for me, for those I grew up with, there
didn’t seem to be a big thing.
It’s not a big thing.
Anyway, the problem was that
she broke Ryan’s heart and we, us viewer’s just couldn’t handle this.
Why I’m talking about this?
Well, it comes from a FB post by Jeff Erno (you can find here) talking about
the why youth are now.
I can’t say that I’ve never
said words that have hurt LGBT people. It’s not that I directed at them, it was
more just what we said. Insensitive I know, and something I realise I did. I
understand even if I’m one of those many people that will shrug off the none
aggressive forms of homophobia, hell, I probably one of those people who
wouldn’t even see it as homophobia,
because of the stage in history I grew up in.
(the aggressive forms, well,
I’m a little to confrontational, and hate other people being cornered like
that, so I probably wouldn’t leave it be)
We didn’t seem to care that
much about who someone slept with, at least I don’t remember having any big
objection from others. Though truly I didn’t really pay that much attention to
it all so they might of.
I have a hope that my kids
won’t even blink an eye when they see anyone kissing in public, though being a
child of mine they probably won’t get or like the whole PDA but that’s in
general not because of who they are.
It’s a struggle though. School
seems to want to pigeonhole them. I’m not sure if this is from the kids
themselves, which doesn’t speak that highly of their parents, of the teachers
as well, but I’ve had many conversation on gender stereo types that I’ve
cleared up for them.
Being they say only girls
can wear dresses and I said, hell no, anyone can wear a dress. And this is
across the board.
I want them to be those
youth’s he spoke of that get emotional and get snippy, and defensive when the
subject is brought up. I want them to be the type of person, to live in a place
where they wouldn’t even blink an eye when one of their mates comes out. Hell,
that there isn’t a reason to bother unless you’re showing off your partner.
This is what I want from our
world. This is what I hope will happen and the only way it will is if we all
stand together, links hands, if you wish and show the world that we won’t
tolerate it, we won’t let you take us step back in time.
Great post, Bronwyn. Bullying in all forms needs to stop.
ReplyDeleteLovely post. Thanks for taking the time to reflect on such an important issue.
ReplyDeletePDA is something I prefer not to see, whoever involved in it, though. 😊 Thank you for the post.
ReplyDeleteMy daughter is part of the community and my other two daughters are advocates.
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Angela:
ReplyDeleteGreat post :)
I enjoyed the post it's something I hope for that as time passes people will think that there is no difference to who marry who or who they are in a relationship with. It's so hard to find love in the world does it really matter who people marry as long as they love each other.
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I can't imagine how hard school must be these days (and probably always has been to a certain extent), especially for LGBT or questioning youth...great post!
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This is one of my favorite blog hops, thanks for the great post
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Lovely post. Thank you for taking part in the hop and helping to spread awareness!
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great post Bronwyn
ReplyDeleteFantastic post!
ReplyDeleteGreat post. Thanks for participating in this blog hop
ReplyDeleteAwesome post hun!
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Cheers
~Rissa~
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Thanks for post and hop.
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Thanks for the post and helping with the hop.
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Rene
ReplyDeleteThanks for this post.
Thanks for the great post. I find myself trying to explain things to my child in a gender neutral way a lot and realizing that there's so much around that he's picking up from others and TV; like dolls are for girls. Why? Because the commercials all show girls playing with dolls, not boys.
ReplyDeleteIf we all work together, we can make the changes we so desperately wish to see! Thank you for the post.
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