While most of you that belong to the timezone I belong to were sleeping last night, I was on my DVD-movie marathon. Since we only have one DVD player and a TV in our house, I'm having a hard time watching films that are...a bit unusual to be seen when my family's around. I'm not talking about porn films, okay, but, gay films.
I come from a conservative and religious family, so it is so awkward for them to see those kinds of films. I think they are not open to talk about that stuff, especially Mum.
Last night, though, was the best night for me to see those awkward films that I’ve been so curious about. Mum was out-of-town for a convention, Papa was on his duty, (as a district peace officer) and my brother was on his Friday night-out with his friends. (Yeah, I know you’re wondering, why not just watch those unusual films in the middle of the night when everybody is asleep? No. Mum sleeps in our living room, where our entertainment stuff is placed. Weird. But, she and Papa don’t want to sleep in their room. They sleep in the living room together.) I rented four gay DVD’s; Brokeback Mountain, Morcova-The Comfort Gay (a local film), Boys Don’t Cry, and D.E.B.S.
Okay, I’m not gonna act like a movie critic, I’ve never been good at being one. But, I’d say that the films are quite good. At first, I thought all gay films were non-sense. I thought they just do their acts, and that’s it. In the four films that I saw, however, they do their unusual acts, too, but there was a story on it. The four films are of different faces of homosexuality, but talks about love.
I don’t know, but I think homosexuality is not a big deal, especially in Europe. Here in my country, too. Homosexuality is accepted in the society, despite its conservativeness. The only thing that the Catholic Churches is against of is their acts. I, myself, am not really the anti or the homophobic type, but as what our Churches dislike, it disgusts me too to see those partners in same sex doing their thing in public, making out in public, especially in front of old people. *Sigh*
How about you, guys? What do you think about homosexuality? I would gladly appreciate your comments about gays :)
3 comments:
Here it is somehow accepted that people can be gay, and gay marriages are allowed, too. But somehow it's a mixed thing. On the one hand it's politically correct to accept gay people, on the other hand it's one of the things people like to make fun about the most, especially how gay guys talk, move and act in general.
I don't really have a problem with gay people as long as they don't hit on me or become very obscene in public. By the way, I'm not a big fan of people making out like crazy in public, in general, not only gay people. I don't like it when I'm in a narrow room or any kind of place where it's not easy to look away, and then someone starts kissing and you have to deliberatly look somewhere else just to avoid staring at these people. I don't like that. Why do -I- have to turn my eyes away just because some people do something that's private? I mean, it's okay to give each other a small kiss, but it gets awkward when you feel like an intruder although you are only a "spectator" against your own will.
Religiously, it's a difficult question. I suppose that there is not so much room for gay-ness in the religious books that we know. It's simply considered to be wrong, so as soon as it gets sexual, it's more than just what is considered "love" in the bible, for example. I won't judge over gay people, it's just that it wouldn't work for me if I was gay - being religious and being gay at the same time.
Like you, it's not just gays whom I hate to see making out in public. I believe partners must get a room for them to make out. You know, I admire you not liking these kinds of acts. I thought it was not a big deal in Europeans.
Thnx, Mike for your very nice thoughts. :)
Personally, I don't like watching ppl make out either, gay or not. Though I've never seen any gays making out over here, I think the gays here did a good job hiding from the public;)
But being gay isn't wrong, it's love still, just a different kind. I have no problems with gay ppl, as long as they don't have a problem with me.
Religiously, I once had a colleague who's a Christian, and she said that being gay is a sin, or something like that. I didn't respond to that, because I thought that what she said was discriminatory, yet she knows more about her religion than I do, and I didn't want to get into an argument with her. But I believe that being in love is never wrong, no matter who your object of affection is.
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