INTRO: So I recenently got done reading about a ten year old boy who hung himself, quite probably because he felt like he didn’t fit in with the other kids at school, and was harassed and tortured to no end, as many homosexual men and women go through everyday of their lives. This boy was interested in wearing clothing designed for females, and putting certain substances on his face, that according to the “gender norm”, are designed for females. I learned that although his family was accepting of his decisions, his family suspects that kids at school were not.
So basically heres what I think. Screw the gender norm with every possible tool in existance. Nail it hard into the dirt and call it dead. As dead as the thousands of homosexuals that die every year, not because they’re fighting in a war. Not because of a plane crash. Not because of drugs, alchohal, disease, or murder. More or less indirect murder. Some call it selfish. Some call it a “pernament solution to a temporary problem.” Well wake up and get out of girl scouts camp hun. Being gay is not temporary. Harassment for being gay is not a temporary problem.
This article is not all about gay harassment. Its about people wanting to be themselves. People who dont fit the perfect stereotype for their gender. Boys that would rather be a model than an NBA basketball player, and girls that would prepher professional wrestling over baking cookies. Why does it really have to matter so much. Why do sports, activites, clothing, hair styles, thoughts and ideas, and even things as small as colors have to come with gender specific labels. Not everything does. But I’m talking about the extremes. I’m not writing a blog saying that girls should be able to play basketball and boy should be able to be models. Thats not what I’m saying. I see a world where all gender boundaries are broken. It doesn’t matter about what gender you prepher to have in a relationship. It shouldn’t. Parents should not have to be “worried” because their son likes to play with barbie dolls. If your song likes to play with barbie dolls, that does not all the sudden make him confused or gay, that means that he likes to play with barbie dolls. He very well may be gay, but it shouldn’t be though of that way immediatly. It’s just a bunch of stupid stereotypes.
Not a single person would tell you that it is okay to stereotype people. No African American civil right leader, no Jewish religious leader, no catholic priest, no parents of children would say that stereotypes are okay. Stereotypes are never looked at as a good thing.
And do you know what the gender norm is? It’s a big pile of stereotypes effecting more lives than anyone would think.
ps. i realize that i am only fourteen years old, and no one out there may want to take anything i write seriously as i know from putting my posts on myspace, but that doesn’t mean that i dont have thoughts and that i’m plain stupid.
