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funny thought
#22249710 - 09/17/15 06:43 AM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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I saw this in the funnies thread and despite the word play I couldn't help take pause and reflect on the meaning of the picture itself. Look how happy the men appear; I can't help feel a deep sadness that this kind of love was and still is violently oppressed. Regardless of my opinion regarding their sexuality, what in me can defy their love?
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Re: funny thought [Re: WScott] 1
#22251083 - 09/17/15 12:50 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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==> Regardless of my opinion regarding their sexuality, what in me can defy their love?
Your anger, hatred, and intolerance. Often resultant of our pain and suffering, lashed out, because someone when we were kids showed us their anger, hatred, and intolerance (because of their pain and suffering, because someone when they were kids..) and well, you get the point.
I hear ya. As a human being in my experiences its easiest to get angry and intolerant of differences, draw lines in the sand, be resentful and put up mental barriers --categorically boxing people in and usually as less than ourselves. What is difficult is acceptance, understanding, compassion and the effort it takes to empathize with experiences foreign to our own.
Why I mention this is that the real rage I feel from the topic is because most of the ideologies that proclaim such intolerance and hatred are often wrapped in some kind of complex about manhood and self worth. How is caving to easiest desires to be scared and defensive of others' differences, and lashing out the "manly" thing to be doing? Seems like its a cop out: the real challenge would be to try and understand, and what's more accept that when it doesn't concern you it is not your concern.
The idea that somehow anything witnessed in that photo does negate someone's manhood (or self-respect/whathaveyou as this is a genderless idea at its core) in any sense of the word baffles me to no end, but it is a common idea. Frustratingly so. In fact it takes enourmous amounts of strength to not only have accepted these things about yourself and the hostile world around you but then to take the extra step to actually come out into it. What bothers me is that it is all too clear to me that the only pussies out there are the ones calling others pussies, and I sincerely think that many of that population is littered with individuals who were not strong enough to face that within themselves, live in misery, and unconsciously hate another group who have had the courage to do what they can't admit they want.
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Re: funny thought [Re: Tropism]
#22251884 - 09/17/15 03:55 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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Being gay myself I have to say that coming out didn't really work out too well. The community was such an alien place were I didn't fit in. I was caught between two worlds never belonging to either one, and it made me think something was wrong with me. That I wasn't straight enough for normal society and not gay enough for the culture. I think it portrays a front of unity but inside it's pretty divided.
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Re: funny thought [Re: WScott]
#22251907 - 09/17/15 04:01 PM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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They have terrible fashion sense.
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Re: funny thought [Re: Sun King]
#22259172 - 09/19/15 07:02 AM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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Edited by WScott (09/19/15 07:03 AM)
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Re: funny thought [Re: WScott] 1
#22259179 - 09/19/15 07:06 AM (8 years, 4 months ago) |
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Kim looks like she might have been a man once. OK, maybe all the time.
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