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I have been raised in a family where homosexuality is seen as an abnormality, a disease and I have grown to that way of thinking looking down at gay people because of their gender preference or sexual orientation but never quite able to explain or fully understood why most of the gay people I have encountered were smart or overachievers. I never really understood why I needed to hate them, all I knew was I disliked them because I was taught that way and because they looked ridiculous, they acted ridiculous and the fact that they were attracted to people of their same sex was ridiculous. Until one day I myself questioned the same thing. Why do I have many guy friends? Why do I like hanging out with guys more than girls? Why do I even like these guy stuff? Does hanging out with guys make me a lesbian? Am I a lesbian??? Well I realized later on as I was growing up that I wasn’t the only one who thinks that way, and apparently, it was normal, being “one of the boys” or having many guy friends, or liking stuff that is labeled male activities or interests. But why is homosexuality even seen as abnormal? We live in a society that is sexist, where gender roles are predefined and activities, interests and things are gender-labeled, and going against these roles when you are at an developing stage wherein almost everything is just new to you makes you abnormal. I’ve known teens younger than me who have looked down upon their selves just because other people can’t accept that they are different, that that’s who they are
I’m bisexual but that doesn’t make me a lesser human being than a heterosexual. I date men and I find women attractive as well. My character and my values have nothing to do with my gender preference. I do not find anything abnormal with seeing that of the same sex as I am as beautiful.
Why can’t all people just accept the fact that we can’t be all heterosexuals?
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This man, James Verone, robbed a bank for one dollar.
Why only one dollar?
Because he knew that in prison he could get the medical care he could not afford with his part time salary as a convenience store clerk. He was approved for food stamps, but they did little to help his finances. Between his back problems, carpel tunnel, and arthritis, he simply couldn’t handle the pain any longer.
On June 9th, he sent a letter to his local paper, the Gaston Gazette, that stated: “When you receive this a bank robbery will have been committed by me. this robbery is being committed by me for one dollar. I am of sound mind but not so much sound body.”
He then took a cab to the RBC Bank, and handed the teller a note asking for one dollar and medical attention. He quietly took a seat in the lobby and waited for police to arrive.
Since Verone only stole one dollar, he was only charged with larceny. His bail, which he doesn’t plan to pay is set at $2,000, reduced from the normal $100,000. He’s scheduled to see a doctor this Friday, and hopes to get foot surgery, back surgery and to have a protrusion on his check treated.
To me, this is the perfect example of how disturbingly corrupt and unjust our health care system has become under HMO’s. For this man, or any person for that matter, feels that he needs to be imprisoned just to see a doctor, is ridiculous.
I honestly can’t even think of words. The story says it all.
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