Have you ever been bullied?
Most people bully others for no reason, but to deride people, I feel that’s its worse. People who a re ridiculed know that being made fun of hurts. Some are ridiculed for personal reasons and some are ridiculed for stupid reasons like being gay or lesbian. It’s an enigma to why people get abused both physically and mentally by people who are haters just because they might be a little different from them. Is it because they are scared, scared of living in a world which isn’t the same as the one they used to live in? Scared of change? The term “being out of the closet” means to be openly gay and proud of it. Gays hide inside the closet and do not express themselves because they don’t want to deal with discrimination. Although I haven’t experience being gay or “inside the closet”, I know that holding in anger isn’t good for your health. So I wonder, is it the same way as not being able to express yourself as a gay, holding anger inside of yourself? I think so.
Being an Asian in a school populated with Hispanics and African Americans, you get discriminated against. I don’t have anything wrong with Hispanics; most of my friends are Hispanic and so is my girlfriend. Our school West Adams Preparatory High School on Washington and Vermont, has an Asian Population less than 2%. Therefore I know a little something about being discriminated against. I don’t mind the fact that people judge me, I think it’s because people feel that there is disparity between races therefore most people are shallow. Although I don’t think people should be judged by who they are. I guess it’s because I have experienced being discriminated against, that I don’t mind the fact that people are gay. They are just people. Humans create disparity in order to be the best and win the game of “survival of the fittest”. They feel that disparity still exists. People have become so deprived to the point where people put up banners to deride the gays.
I can understand why people wouldn’t “come out of the closet”. People are judgmental and mock others. It’s immutable to get rid of depravity in this world. This year, on October 17, 2010 in my junior year, was my first time in the aids walk. As I was walking, I saw all these people with banners about how got hates gays and that all gays would go to hell. It seemed like their piety was good, but all they were causing was adversity. When they were all together holding up the banners, they had the ascendancy over the walking crowd. In my head I wondered, “whoa, are they actually don’t that?” They thought that they were doing right, but in my eyes all they were doing was deprecating the gays. I was one of the many who were “booing” at them. They looked unphased by it. They didn’t care about being booed at. Like they were unwilling about putting up the banners, but the fact that they did it; it was profane. Any human would feel bad.
I don’t know many gays in our school, but I do know some people who are. One kid on our school gets treated in a profane way. I wonder if they do it arbitrarily or just for the fun of it. Its just the depravity of people, it would make anyone despondent. I would want to rectify with my voice, but in the end I would just retract myself. All I could do was support him in a public way. To the people who deride him, he’s seen different than a normal guy. Then he got a girlfriend because he was bisexual. The bullies used to disparage him, until he got a girlfriend. I don’t know if he got a girlfriend because he was treated so badly or if he just loved the girl, but the fact that he got treated differently shows the hierarchy in the prejudice world.
As any normal teenager, I watch t.v. and on the show “Glee” there is a character who is gay. The show isn’t about him, but still shows the life of an average open gay kid in school. I believe that the show reveals ethical dilemmas because it puts him in different situations and shows the way he gets treated. He is the only openly gay kid in school and is denounced everyday at school by the more popular kids in school like football player. People watch as he got bullied and treat him in a profane way. They would watch in disinclination and wouldn’t even bother to rectify the situation. I just feel sad but so does every other person with morals, but the ones who stand up can change or even save a life.
Maybe to the people to ridicule others, discrimination doesn’t seem like a big deal its harmless in their eyes. I know just by seeing how gays are being treated that all they want is to extricate themselves from all the “harmlessness” they receive from people. All anybody wants is sanction. To be approved of and not be seen any differently is what anyone would want to feel, but the fact that people are superficial causes us to do things to receive approval by society. In the end does society want us to be who we are or what they want us to be? Do they want us to “hide inside the closet”?
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