An evening at our household is never event-free.
After a long discussion that was initiated by mentioning the movie "Milk" I can't help but find it mind boggling just how much lack of understanding there is out there.
I can understand if someone who was born in the 50ies wouldn't be so understanding, but even the not-so-religious 80ies generation? Seriously? I was surprised.
I think i'm living in a bubble, because i was genuinely baffled to find that very few young, not-so-religious, generally open-minded, well travelled and smart people still don't believe a "live and let live" attitude...
Ok, so you don't have to be totally on board with the whole marriage, kids and all (even though i see no reason why not) but seriously? i mean seriously?
still can't wrap my head around it...
9 comments:
you know, it wasn't much of a live and let live in the States until lately.
Afterall, I believe in Egypt, people tend to be overly emotional, so much you think it's in heritage!
However, if sanity has space, and despite Sean's staggering performance, I felt disgust, and his speech at the academy, so not him?
very few young, not-so-religious, generally open-minded, well traveled and smart peopleumm, like I told ya, it's not about Egyptians, the concept is relatively new, quite terrible to be honest, piety has a sovereignty you know .. bypassing that does provoke sometimes.
I still believe overreacting is wrong though, I mean why the heck did you watch the movie?! .. you know what I mean?
Enjoyed reading, :)
i'm not sure what you mean by: "However, if sanity has space, and despite Sean's staggering performance, I felt disgust, and his speech at the academy, so not him?"
so you think the "concept" is terrible. I get it, men are not your cup of tea - but say an awesome friend of yours begs to differ - what's it to you? and why should it affect your friendship?
And why wouldn't i watch the movie? It's gotten great reviews and discusses a current topic. you mean you wouldn't watch it? why not?
hey! I actually just finished watching that movie a few minutes ago.. kinda funny I just went to read your blog.
Anyway, excellent movie. Towards the end I came to think how amazing it is that in the US we never learned in school about the first person to initiate a civil rights movement on behalf of the gay community. That'll probably be different someday.
But yeah, no need to get bent out of shape for someone else's lifestyle. live and let live, yo.
Overreacting aside, and by that I mean whoever tends to heat up a discussion attacking the movie (and those are the ones whom I meant by: why the heck did you watch it in the first place?!)
And aside the fact that I'm a huge fan of Sean, and of course the movie.
All that aside, it's nothing but normal to feel weird about homosexuality, and really I think disgusting as a description is more than moderate.
If an awesome friend of mine, decided to go homo, well, I don't like friends going weird and disgusting! And I wouldn't want to deny the fact it'd affect our friendship and pretend to live normally afterwords. It's just not right.
Enjoying a movie to watch nice acting, professional direction and a great storyline, is a thing.
Trying to reflect on one's lifestyle is so another.
So I would watch it, I would practice live and let live in my opinions when I talk about it, but when it comes to me and my friends, I really think it's not that easy especially with close friends.
Haven't faced it yet though, so maybe I'm wrong .. mmm ..
have you?
oh, forgot to ask, how can I subscribe to the comments feed on your blog ? :)
uhh you asked the wrong person there ib! I'm good with things i have to be good at. subscribing to comments on blogger is not on the have-to list.
I don't know how politically correct this is, but say your super-awesome friend is not gay but is totally into kinky stuff that are downright weird. would you take distance from him too?
mmm .. maybe I can't handle weird friends generally, or maybe, for me, the gay thing isn't just a weird thing.
About the comments, I managed to subscribe to comments on your other two blogs, but here, appears things are different, though it's Blogger too.
Well, I'm not sure about this, but I feel I have bothered you with my comments, if that was the case, I state my apologies, I assure you, it was absolutely not intended at all.
I liked the discussion though, it made me think.
Thanks :)
you haven't bothered me at all - heck if i get bothered every time i disagree with someone's opinion i would have jumped off the brightly lit cairo tower by now (although honestly the 60 pounds entry fee would have stopped me - are they f*ing serious with this pricing?)
I think it's coz this blog is really old, i have to do everything in HTML code to change the template. Maybe they haven't updated the old ones? Coz you're right, my other two blogs are much more user-friendly in the editing part even though they are all blogger.
And this shall be my conversation topic with my IT geek friends - finally we'll get to fill that akward silence - lol...
plus you're like the only one that reads this thing, or you're the only one who bothers to commment! (oh and Eric too)
Call me needy but for that fact you can get away with a lot more than disagreeing :P
Post a Comment