Homophobia, an extreme and irrational aversion to homosexuality and homosexuals. I’ve always wondered why guys (referring to men in Maldives since I don’t know about men and their mentality in other countries!) are homophobic. Seriously, guys are more homophobic than women! Don’t agree? Let me tell you.
First of all, guys love going on trips with their guy pals and in “most” of the cases they end up doing something nasty like stripping a guy pal nude or “soatu beylevun” which they find amusing. Oh yeah, how would it be a problem if you show such extreme behaviour on picnics as long as you arn’t that in real eh? Poof! Nonesense. I tell you what, girls don’t do such stuff. They don’t find it amusing to strip a pal on a picnic nor poking around their genitals.
I remember me and my apartment-mate watching this movie named “Crutch” about an year ago. Pretty interesting story it was. A true story of “crossing boundaries” (as the tagline says) between a male student and his teacher.
When the sexual behaviour started to appear on the screen two of the guys who was to watch the movie with us actually did run out uttering vulgar verbal abuse AND refused to watch the remaining part of the movie. Duh! But they can poke around other guy’s genitals and strip them on picnics?
I know one thing for sure, girls don’t back out when watching a movie of homosexuals and lesbianism. As long as it’s a good movie we’d watch it. It’s just another good story, what harm can it do to us? Our sexuality lies within us. It’s definitely not going to change after watching a flick.
Which brings me to homosexuals. What’s wrong with being a homosexual? As long as you don’t get a religious view on it, it’s fine and acceptable. It’s just someone elses sexual orientation. Not yours nor mines. We ought not to criticise and disrespect them for what they are. Accept people for their mentality and not what their sexual perspective is.
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Well.. uhhh.. ahhhh.. iiiii.. anyway ..ummmm.. no comment….but i do enjoy watching lesbians kiss
and then theres also the guys who pretend to be gay around girls just to make us squirm..
Zoe, Yesterday it was said that homosexuality is a ‘disorder, and is it not the same people who said such, you see labelling those who consdier homosexuality as a disoder to be ‘homophobic’?
Homosexuality, prostitution and such remain continual matters of public concern. Some people are not aware of this growing danger and so mistakenly consider it as normal. But, statistics show that with every passing day, this danger is spreading unperceived.
The proportion of sex-related illnesses is an important indication of the problems facing humanity. According to World Health Organization (WHO), sex-related diseases form one of the largest segments of illnesses. These reports show that of an estimated 333 million new cases of sexually transmitted diseases occur in the world every year.(“Young People and Sexually Transmitted Diseases,” WHO Fact Sheet No. 186 (December 1997).) In addition, AIDS continues to be the most serious problem. WHO statistics indicate that AIDS has killed 18.8 million people since the beginning of the epidemic in the early 1980s.(WHO, “Report on the Global HIV/ AIDS Epidemic,” June 2000. Online at:www.unaids.org/ epidemic_update/report/Epi_report.htm#aids.) The WHO report for 2000 sums up the situation succinctly: “AIDS is unique in its devastating impact on the social, economic and demographic underpinnings of development.”
With systematic propaganda by the western media, we, are induced to believe in the normality of homosexuality: “Being a homosexual is a personal choice, which should be considered very natural.” When you consider it normal, you are considered to be an open-minded, modern and notable person. In order to be such a person, you have to overcome your “old-fashioned” way of thinking and “improve” yourself. The more you accept any sort of “immorality” as legitimate, the more you become a “modern”, “notable” person! Who can resist becoming such a person? In fact, I can!
By the way, my blog is back on ‘bussiness’.
ello soooo true, mennnnn
Totally.. not acceptable!
what you have written in ur article about maldivian men is definitely right!
“Sexual orientation probably is not determined by any one factor but by a combination of genetic, hormonal, and environmental influences”american acedemy of paediatrics
Homophobia and homosexuality , both are disorders! It is not natural.
“What’s wrong with being a homosexual? As long as you don’t get a religious view on it, it’s fine and acceptable.”
How about , if your brother is a gay?
well Zoe…the person’s mentality is pretty much clear…
Well, what if this friend from the same gender falls in love with you ?
You dump him / her then OR you yourself change the mentality ?
How is homophobia a disorder? It’s just someone’s view on sexuality. Not mines, nor yours. They decided on it, let them be. Duh!
Zero, dumping someone who falls for you or feels a strong desire to you is not acceptable. You can always “talk” about common interest and mutual feelings. Though he/she falls for me doesn’t mean I have to dump them for what they felt for me.
soooo true! some guys are so afraid of bein gay..seems like som of them dont have enough confidence in their sexuality..hehe and so true about that picnic thing..lol! good post !
what do you expect.
lesbians wont’ find any problem in it at all.
@anonymous: oooOOOooOOOOooo… we’re so scared to admit our sexual perspective! Got a remedy eh, Mr. “anonymous”?
It would be nice to suspend all judgemental thoughts while with another human being, wouldn’t it?
one word: Maldivians….
Oooh la laa… Wat do we have here?
Here i was looking for a good article to read and i find this little uncut gem..
Thought provoking… Although clearly not everyones cup of tea…
Throw something like this at the profanum vulgus n watch the hounds shred it to pieces..
Although my dignified frnd Shaf (if i may be so bold) i wouldnt generalise that much… Men, as you say and i agree to a point, are homophobic and cant stand scenes of MSM sex… Im also intrigued by the fact that you note the ritualistic ’soatu beyluvun’ on picnics.. Which is not seen as ‘firihen kulhi’ or “gay” by these same individuals who will not be seen within 10 miles of a gay porn.. And you note that Women or Girls rather dnt engage in such behaviour…
May i here note that, men dnt generally or habitually undress or get dressed infront of other male frnds either (with partial or complete nudity).. Grls tell me, its a matter of closeness and comfort.. although interesting, ive never had the time to delve too deep into that topic with a girl..
Also, when you note the ritual of soatu beyluvun, most men and i repeat MOST men… dnt regard that as with any semblance of sexuality… its more rooted in juvenile fun and mocking or just plain old bullying…
Be as it may, i believe its more a matter of perception than anything else… Someone who is homophobic can have lots of reasons for that, ranging from religious standpoint to sexual confidence..
Going out on a limb, im increasingly starting to believe that there is no such thing as definitive sexual orientation for women bt rather a fluid transitional orientation… the same could be said for some men, although it seems more apparent in women.. Most women are in limbo and this tends to contribute highly to their tolerance and acceptance of the whole LGBT scene…
Although Shaf, for curiousity sake, take a look at Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 3, 440-445.. Your looking for a study by Adams, Wright, & Lohr in 1996… Google it.. And read through… If you havent already, youll like it…
And the lad who commented on the STI/STD stat from WHO and UNAIDS, thats just plain old misdirection…
If the Zealots think that curbing/banning sex and sinning will cure the world and make it all bright sparkly and sunny, you only need to look at Victorian Era Europe and the subsequent prophetic emergence of Donatien Alphonse Francois, better known as the Marquis De Sade…