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Thursday, November 4, 2010
Blog #6
Being raised in a loving christian family, the Westborro Babtist Church's display of utter hatred made me feel sick. I have always been taught to love the person and hate the sin. This applies to any "sin" and often homosexuality was one that was mentioned. I used to believe that homosexuality was a choice, but as I mature I am realizing that it is not that simple. While I do think that any human being's actions are their own choice, I do not think that what they are sexually attracted to necessarily is. From all of the homosexual people that I know, most can describe some sort of traumatic experience that happened to them at a young age. Others tell me that they were "just born that way." In the book "Middlesex" I was introduced to confusion of sexual identity due to both biological and emotional reasons. Despite Cal being raised as a girl, she/he was born with an attraction to women. I found the incest in the book weird because it is blatantly defying my religious beliefs as well as the American social norms. I was uncomfortable with the sexual scene in the bathhouse with Cal as a 7 year old because it was dealing with children. Despite my discomfort with certain elements of the story, I still loved the characters and couldnt help but hope for their happiness even if it meant them going against my personal ideals. Overall, I think life would be better if everyone just lived their life the way they want to, and let others do the same.
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I also think that the world would be better if everyone just let others live their own lives. Its unfathomable to me how someone can just automatically decided to hate an entire group of people when they have no idea who they are. I think judgment should be on the kindness of their hearts not their sexuality. We should all just learn to understand others and let people be who they want to be.
ReplyDeleteI also found some elements of the story awkward because some abnormal sexual bahavior was discribed and discussed so openly. The author really had me hoping for the happiness of the characters as well. At first I thought it was so disgusting that Des and Lefty fell in love, but by the time they were on their way to America I was hoping everything would work out for them.
ReplyDeleteI feel the same way as all three of you. I was also taught to love people for who they were in my family. Although it is hard to change people's minds and beliefs, I too feel that the world would be a better place if people judged others based on personalities and not on race or sexuality. The book is very intersting. I had an open mind when I first discovered that Desdemona and Lefty had feelings for each other. As the author wrote more descriptively it began to gross me out. However, when I realized that they were trylu in love I was also rooting for them and just wanted them to be happy. The incest in the novel was a little vulgar at moments but you almost seemed to forget about it as the book went on. I am intersted in finishing the book and finding out what lies at the end for Cal.
ReplyDeleteThe Westboro church video also had a similar effect on me. I thought what they were doing was terrible. I was also taught to love everybody because I believe we are all sinners and no one sin is worse than the other one.
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