Tuesday, September 25, 2007
In my own imagination 12:48 PM.
Gayism. As this word resounds in your head, most of you may recall how some of your friends being thrown with insults such as "U stupid gay!" .
As we all know, Singapore has yet to legalise gayism. Thus, this has aroused many unhappiness among the gay circle, and even people who are heterosexual has been discussing this controversial issue. I shouldn't find it sad that the government is criminalising gayism, but instead i find it unpragmatic and contradictory.
As a male homosexual, i've accepted myself over the past few years. It is not easy to accept the realisation that you have actually got no sexual affection towards the opposite sex party. Personally, i seeked solace in denial but was slapped back by multiple rejections and once, i thought i've alleviated my homosexual self, but how wrong was I? After being ditched by that girl, i formed a bad impression of females, and worse, had my interest for female being totally ripped off like how i was ditched. THen, i began to accept that guys are the people whom i natually seek and admire, and guys are my innate ideal.
Honestly, if you'd ask me if i prefered to be an ASEXUAL(somebody who has got no sexual affection towards any sex), i would say no. I need love and protection. For friends who know me closer, i'm a team player only if i think the leader is better than me. If not, i'd always aim to be a leader myself. But at times i would want love and warmth. This is something which i've lacked of and i am sure, many people out there share the similar sentiments here too.
But bear one thing in mind readers, DO NOT disclose your sexual oreintation to any of your family members especially your parents. I know of a gay couple personally, and the bottom faced a major catastrophe when his parents found out about his sexual oreintation when they came across their blog. His parents basically splurged a bomb to "save" him out of gayism by simply sweeping all books on homosexuality in bookstores indiscriminately, sent him for counselling, forbidded his freedom and kept him from contacting other guys. Isn't it ridiculous to mash an adolescent up so badly? At this age, freedom and pride plays an important role in our teenage life doesn' it?
Next, regarding what the government has done, i felt its controversy in between.
Let's look from a more general point of view; discrimination.
IN some countries racial discrimination still exist because individual races just keep to themselves which leads to a congregation and segregation. They then adheres to different believes and make friends with people of their own race. However, Singapore successfully prevented this from happening by encouraging racial harmony. Therefore, we don't really see any form of discrimination in schools, or at work. Despite the other's skin colour , Singapore has always been seen as a multi-racial society because of racial and religious acceptance.
However, using the same concept we'll see how flaws has been caused by discrimination of gayism in Singapore. I've gone through the stage whereby people hurl abuse at me in school and BOO at me after their subsequent knowledge of my sexual oreintation. Isn't this bullying? Yes, i was being bullied multiple times but i did not blame them because i know it's a matter of mindset. Those who've accepted me, i must say that it is good to have a mind of your own and not being manipulated by society easily. For those who have not accepted this, i don't blame them because it's a matter of manipulation since young , adhering to the fact that gayism is debaucherous and trecherous. This is the main irony and controversy which i see with what the government has done. They want to bring down bullying in schs and yet, they are going to continue criminalising gayism which will cause more bullying...
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