Tuesday, May 22, 2012

feminists and homosexuality

I believe that I am a feminist, I believe that women should be respected and given equal opportunity as men in the work forces. I also believe, however, that men and women are different and that is for a specific reason. We work best that way. When Adam was given Eve it was as a help meet. In Hebrew it actually means same but opposite. Just think of it as your hands. Your hands are the same, but opposite using both means you get the most done and you use each hand for different things. I feel that extreme feminists are trying to make it so we are all just one huge hand with 10 fingers on in. Where we try to make men women and when that doesn't work women gain more manly characteristics and we call them feminine. It is alright that we have different physical and mental abilities. Men in general see the big picture while women generally see the fine details. I find  the difference to be amazing and how we come together in marriage to be something more than just ourselves a miracle. But the world seems a little confused. It is probably because of my LDS background that I see this, it is something that we are taught along with that family being the central part of the eternal plan of happiness. . Wouldn't it make sense then that Satan would attack the first step of the family, marriage. He makes people feel that marriage is binding the freedom women and that it stifles their potential because we can't be just good for being mothers. I agree that women can do more, but being a mother is more exulted then anything else you can so. I think that this also has to do with the myths being projected in the media about homosexuality.  Here is where I feel it gets tricky to talk about the homosexuality myths. First some people don't separate people, children of God, from the classification. Suddenly it is part of their identity which means that when you say anything which could be construed as against it you are attacking them. Wrong there are an equal amount of good and bad between heterosexual people as their are homosexual. What I am not talking about is the person I am talking about the concept. This means it is a generalization of what being homosexual is there are many personal exceptions. Something which had been shifting in our society is that boys must to boy things or else they are gay. The little girl who acts like a tom boy is seen as cute, but not the little boy. I think that the teaches little girls that they can be anything and are great no matter what and that little boys are only as good as they fit a stereotype. This is what pushes more men to say that they are gay. It starts with the expressive qualities instead of instrumental. Usually expressive qualities are usually seen as feminine and  instrumental qualities male. So the boys who are sensitive, you are more into conversation and building relationships are shunned from the regular boys and even in elementary school they are called gay. So later on when a experimentation or a tramatic event like molestation happens their hindsight see that they must be gay because they were always called that. Which means that two women somewhere in the world wont get married and have families. I find it heart breaking. I think that instead of trying to make our boys into girls we should be helping them to become gentlemen. That girls should understand how to respect the opposite gender as much as boys do and that there are only two genders and confusion in between. 

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