Aug 20, 2009

Selling homophobia.

Humour is an enigma. What some find funny others find offensive. What some find healing others find destructive. While in Key West I was struck with an example of such a rift. Inside a brightly lit and plastic smelling t-shirt shop I saw a shirt I will never forget. In a parody of the Trix cereal slogan, the shirt read, "Silly faggot! Dix are for chix!" It has been years since I have felt what I did after reading that shirt: pure, drilled-to-the-bone-marrow rage. I bit my tongue, for what could I do? Yell at the clerk? Even if the potbellied, balding man owned the shop what good could my comment do? Someone ordered that shirt. Someone thought it was a good idea to hang it on the wall for sale. In hindsight, maybe I should have said something, but I don't think I would have been capable. I looked at the man with an expression best summed up as grim and left the shop disgusted.

Let me make it clear that I am straight. I love females. Their design is the epitome of nature. The curves of their bodies, their delicate features, their nurturing nature: I adore it. Now, not all females are that way, but you get my point. Having said that, I now want to make it clear that I have deep sympathy for homosexuals. I know that there are some men that feel for other men the same way I feel for women and some women who feel the same way for other women. I do not care what course a person's love flows, as long as it is of legal age and human, because love is one of the beauties of life. For anyone to dictate another's love is to be a tyrant.

Our mosaic of minds is both necessary and unfortunate. After all, it is human nature to be different, but it is also human nature to be civilized.
By Chad Zahara
Archived under

6 comments:

  1. humor may be an enigma and most things are subject to interpretation, but I feel that there is a definitive right and wrong. prejudice, discrimination, these are wrong. examining homosexuality, trying to find an explanation of why they are homosexual is basically saying that their lifestyle is wrong because it deviates from the conventional. It doesn't need to be explained, it's just not in accord with status quo, so it must be wrong. people fear it, believe it's contagious, without stopping to think that they have a very biased perspective. No matter how secular Western education is, the fact of the matter is that it instills Christian moral principles into all of us, and so we feel superior and that other cultures and lifestyles are backward. shit, even our "secular" government is founded on these Christian moral principles.
    ReplyDelete
  2. also, to be "civilized" is subjective. it pertains to cultural interpretation and practice.
    ReplyDelete
  3. Good points. When you mention people believing homosexuality to be contagious, you reminded me of how much of our same culture felt about Communism (however, I do not support Communism; or any set political movement, for that matter). I guess the essence of this rant is not pro-homosexuality, but anti-ignorance.
    ReplyDelete
  4. -_-

    yes, i think it's difficult to follow any one political movement. they are systems, one system cannot be expected to work without changing, and it's irrational to think so. we need a variety of systems, a combined movement that's elastic and willing to change. I hate that people can be so closed-minded and set in their ways.
    ReplyDelete
  5. p.s. it's nice being "blog" friends. I like communicating through this medium
    ReplyDelete

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)