Tuesday 14 June 2016

Respect for Orlando

The news of the deaths in Orlando was shocking, both in the number of dead and the stupidity of the shooter..

We all have our views on the "lifestyles" of others but a community that only enjoys life should not be treated like one that seeks to control or harm...

A recent Facebook quote, shared by a friend, got me thinking on this subject...

Also hate the word Homophobia... not because of the word; or its meaning, but because of the, apparent, need for it...

Don't, totally, agree about the "you're an asshole", but it is well used in it's context...,  as disagreeing with someone's point of view is the reasoning behind many of mankind's advancements...

But if your disagreeing to degrade someone... Then you're an asshole...

Your not scared... Weeeellllll... yes, some, people are... often because of what is in the next paragraph...

I have always felt that Homophobia is a phobia... But it is a personnel one... Back in the 60/70's it was known as *****bashing... But the more I heard people bragging about it the more certain I was that they were not scared of Gay people... But the fact that they might be Gay themselves... And therefore beat up or degrade them at every opportunity was "necessary"to prove themselves not...

It was so surreal listening to idiots boasting how "manly" they were, watching how their eyes changed while talking... Going from an ego boosted glow at the start to a dim scared "I am not gay... I am not gay" look as they walked away...

You could say I lost a few friends back then... Gained a few to...

Being Gay holds no appeal for me but I respect those who genuinely are...

While individualism is allowed in the world... Groups, of all types, will both survive and have to survive tragedy... And I wish we could all have space and the freedom to, simply, BE

People from the top to the bottom of society still think.... "Why can't you live by my rules - There good rules" when, in fact, they are saying "If I cannot/will not do this then you cannot/will not either"..

Sure they live,love and carry on enjoying their own life... but any chance to boost their ego's by reducing it in others seems, to some people, as necessary as the two things you can do without concious thought... eating and reproducing...

Whether it's in the monetary sense of "socialise costs and privatise profit" to control and enjoy the riches while ensuring others don't

Or just in the good old fashioned "You WILL do as I say"... Because the fact that an individual CAN think for themselves really scares the elite... a fact taken to the extreme in some countries....

Control is what some people seem to think life is really all about... 

I feel ashamed for all who died or were injured...

I feel angry that someone felt they had to do this...

But I also feel pride that the whole community came together in support... And that all LGBT communities WILL live,  laugh, love and remember...







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