With the internet being the internet, a tool for communication across countries and cultures, it's great to know that it's used to get along with like-minded people, however my experience with the internet for the last 5 or 6 years has been a bit of a shaky one. Back in 1994 when the internet started, it was believed that the internet would be a haven of free speech to many people, including those of countries that might not have as much as the western world has, unless you're from China were Twitter is banned and blocked, but during the rise of Youtube I started to notice the rise in hatred towards others, be cultural differences or something petty like not agreeing in someone's opinion. But there was a trend where people accuse others of homosexuality because of ridiculous reasons; that or racist remarks towards Jewish and Muslim people. But one subject that appears on Youtube, and the internet in general is homosexuality of other people and how it's either OK or a bad thing. If it's an article, a video, or a recording that against the subject it gets bad, and fundamental religion rears it's ugly face into the scene and spews hatred towards homosexuality.
The hatred is pretty much towards the idea that said religion says that since homosexuality is bad, the people think they need to protest the idea and make sure that people are heterosexual, to confirm to their beliefs. The best example to pick here is the Phelp's Family Westboro Church, a group of people who have gone as far as turning homophobia into misanthropy, I won't delve into the misanthropic part too much, but the family go around and picket funerals of homosexuals and try to stop events that have homosexuality in it. The problem being is that they go a bit too far in the sense that they send letters to families saying that their son/daughter is going to hell because of their homosexuality. Which is incredibly crass and not forgiveable at all.
Thing is, there needs to be a reason for why these people would think like this, and cause the hatred. It's pretty simple if you think to yourself as if you are a god. Lets take 4 people, 3 of which are men, and there's 1 women, all 4 of these people are over 18, virgin, clean, sexually active, and in love. One man picks the woman, and the remaining men pick each other in a moment of love and romance through their sexuality, fast forward to 9 months later, to heterosexual couple have a child, but the homosexual couple don't, now if you're a God, you'd want more people to worship you, so why allow homosexuality to happen when it doesn't reproduce? This is why most religions detest to homosexuality, because it doesn't increase the population for said religion, which back in ancient days made sense since it's guranteed the human race to continue with a low population and high chances of getting diseases, but in the modern world? This becomes a little flawed...
First off, the 20th century brought a lot of medical advances into the world, the child death rate dramatically reduced in the western world and life expectancy increased higher and higher. In 1900, it was recorded the the world population was 1 billion people, but 100 years later in 2000, it blew up 6 times to 6 billion! And yet somehow homophobia still exists...
The chances of homosexuality dropping the human population is pretty much non exist, and even to this day the world population still growing, if maybe it's too much, but I'll talk about that some other time. Just because homosexual people exist it doesn't mean that the population is going to drop. However that's not always the reason for why people are homophobic. From what I've observed in life, people don't really think about "God's need of population", more that people believe that it's "filthy" because of the act of homosexual sex between men. I mean yes, thinking about it does cause issues such as hygiene and disease, the irony is that what can be "filthy" about homosexual sex, heterosexual sex can be just as "filthy". I have heard plenty of men describing about how they have anal sex with their girlfriends; the funny thing about this is that a typical man believes that it's "filthy" for 2 men to enjoy anal sex, but somehow it's totally fine if it's between a man and a woman, despite the fact that it's the SAME ACT. I personally think it's hypocritical that men can think like that, sure not all men do, but I have witnessed males boasting about it and being tempted to call them a hypocrite.
In general, homosexuality isn't something to be scared of. It's not going to kill the world, and can be done in loving in clean ways just like how a heterosexual relationships can be. As long as we can prevent religion kicking in and/or spewing hatred towards others, we can realise that it's no different at all. I've met homosexual people and they're nothing different as a person, just their sexuality, they don't all dress up like the Village people, they're not all into cottaging, and they're not all into being campy. You might found out that they act pretty much the way you expect others to act and may even share interests with you, you don't need to worry about them trying to hit on you, they already know that you're straight, so they won't. Simple as that!
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| Just adding this in here because it's funny! heh! |
