Do I Have to be Straight?
I was going to put this in the comments to Jewell's blog about uality, but then I figured I may as well make it a blog too. xP
I'm young, I'm opinionated, and I don't know everything. But I'll say what I've seen and heard, and how I feel from those experiences.
Correct me if I'm wrong.
I'm in complete agreement with you in all the aspects covered... I know some people who have come out of the closet -- one of them when he was in fifth grade. And he was bullied so much at his school for it. They pushed him down the stairs and he broke a good majority of his ribs. One of the others was kicked out of her house by her mother for a few days until her mother could come to terms with that idea. All of her friends pushed her away because they were afraid she'd start having crushes on them. My mother says there's nothing wrong with being any of those things, but if I'm one, then it's a problem.
And I think that that's strange. People who are gay, lesbian, biual, and etc. are okay, their stories are sad, you support them, and yet, if your child wasn't straight, if your friend wasn't straight, then it becomes a problem? They say they're okay with it, when it's other people. People they know and "love" must be straight, or it's unacceptable?
I accept and support those kinds of people -- I've even liked some people that were bi, and I didn't mind at all.
But not only straight people are judgmental about uality.
There's a GSA at my school -- Gay Straight Alliance -- and I went to their first meeting. But I never came back again.
As much as I don't mind and accept people's ualities, I found that the people in that room were being a tad to judgmental about others.
They thought that every person in the room was gay.
Despite the fact that it is a "Gay Straight Alliance", which includes both gay people and straight people, they assumed that everyone who came was gay, or at least biual.
I was there because I am straight (at least I think I am), and I supported the people of that club and alliances between gay and straight people. (Although really, why is an alliance needed? Forget the uality, just move on and be happy.) I wasn't lesbian or biual, and I don't think I am now. But they thought I was gay, just because I was sitting in that room. And I just thought, "If that's how you're going to think of people who try to help you, I'm not staying." And they furthered on, saying that when we run into problems, to come to talk to them about it, because they've been "out of the closet" for a long time and understand how it feels.
I like gay, lesbian, and biual people just fine.
But I don't like when they push it, like that.
Sometimes, they use their difference in uality for excuses and such. And I dislike that.
Although, it's true that a lot of straight people aren't any better. I'm just saying, the people are aweosome, the community in general can be pretty aweosome, but certain people, certain things are just...yeah.
Katie mentioned it too, in her blog.
Okay. Yeah, I'm done.
Bye bye~
I'm sleepy...Why do I write at five in the morning...
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