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Ok, so since I don’t have my writing notebook on hand at the moment, I’m going to make a return to Tumblr to record my thoughts on an exhibition disguised as a play that I attended tonight and how I feel it relates to myself.
For anyone who cares to read, I would like to make it known that my thoughts are singularly my own and I do not wish to push them on any person in any way. Thank you.
Today I attended an hour long play entitled HE SAID, SHE SAID, ZE SAID. It almost reminded me of that episode of friends where Joey tries to get rid of the gang so that they don’t crash his soap opera party by sending them to a horrible play in which one person stood in a spotlight for two and a half hours and re-hashed her horrid childhood and womanhood memories and experiences. In the episode, Chandler was the only one who was suckered into seeing the production, but I was part of a body of spectators that was too large for the tiny performance space and unfortunately heated and permeated the air with unappetizing body odor and breath. The unfortunate circumstances aside, I will get to the heart of the issues I hold with the production.
When someone is claiming to be an advocate of acceptance, I find it admirable. I am perfectly willing to rally for the cause because I, too, believe in the powers of love and acceptance. However, when the acceptance the advocate strives for is simply that for their own singular demographic, I start to find it hard to support them. When the people you are talking about trying to educate are single minded due to preconceptions that stem from the unfortunate catalysts of society and social media, it should be as you claim: that they are a product of their environment. Why, then, do you call them “stupid idiots” for either believing differently from the way you do or generating their opinions based off of what they are surrounded with in society (an issue that is out of everyone’s hands and could even be termed subconscious, a human reflex)?
Being a believer in being born who you are and holding that identity from birth on, I feel that everyone is exactly who they are inside and that is perfectly fine. Beautiful, even. I do not believe that your parents or media hold enough power to alter or warp your orientation simply by telling a tomboy girl that she is beautiful or a feminine boy that he is handsome. This would not be enough to alter the orientation of someone in my eyes, because (like many who advocate orientation and LGBT education and awareness) I believe you are who you are and you are born that way. I don’t see where you can claim that outside forces create an orientation in someone or affect them in a way that alters their orientation when you also include the argument “When did you decide to be straight?” in your message. I think that it is important to look at people as what they are- beautiful human beings with individual minds, bodies, orientations, opinions, and thoughts.
When someone who tries to get across the idea of equal treatment and then proceeds to define their entire beings by simply their orientation complains about being closed minded, I have to note the paradox. There is something wrong about the fact that someone who is just as much of a human as you is judged for having certain opinions that don’t agree with yours when you, yourself, advocate open-minded acceptance of everyone and their opinions and orientations. In my limited experience I have found that it is humanly impossible not to make judgement of people. It is a natural, human reflex. You claim that you shouldn’t be judges for your beliefs or ideals and yet you judge others whose beliefs and ideals do not match yours. It is important to make everyone aware of discrimination and issues that are going on under wraps in our society, but pointing fingers is just going to drive the minds of those you are trying to open tightly closed. That is why I believe that the only person capable of not judging people based on any standard and simply receiving everyone as people and children of God is Jesus Christ. The whole reason he was born was to relieve us of the humanly burdensome and naturally judgmental and slanderous sin we were born with. Thus, as fallible humans, it is natural to judge.
When you realize that, though you yourself may want to be excluded from judgement, you are judging people who do not necessarily agree with you you will see why our only hope (aside from trusting the lord for forgiveness of any and all sin we commit on a daily basis) is to love everyone as human beings, not gender or orientation identities. We are all deserving of love and so should all be capable of it. Spread it without reserve and you are bound to receive it in return.
(Source: believ3r)
