How About Gays?

Men who like men, as well as the women who DO like their own kind. It may sound weird and silly to us but it’s true. No one could ever deny it – that there is something strange in our society. It’s the people who are considered a significant person.

Boys Who Like Boys and The Conversion speaks about many gays, may it be a female or a male, a closet or a cross dresser, or what. The ten gaydars were present in the texts. It also speaks of our environment. Yes, they are afraid of men, instead of women. They do not have interest with the opposite sex. Maybe it can be also determined on the choice of music, or movies as well. It is also seen in their gestures, lifestyles, as well as their habits. There is one question left: How could possibly happen to them? Simply because of three things.

It’s inherited. Yes, it is on the genes. In the text The Conversion, the three uncles of the narrator were gay like him. And it so happened that his father hates gays. In fact, he was drowning so many times into the water put in the drum that is rusty and deep. His father wants to be convinced that his son was a man. But he’s not. He’s not satisfied. But upon his demise, the son realized that there was already a change in his life. But he’s not contented. Even satisfied, he’s not. The narrator sees that there was a missing part of him (should it be “her”?). He indeed had a family by that time, but he treats her wife very badly. Being uninterested with a woman is present – an obvious gaydar.

It’s adapted. The fact that you are in the middle of the crowd of gays but you can be able to withstand it says that you are a man. But not for a gay. He is very much afraid of his kind. Much especially to those men who treats gay as a threat to the society. In the text Boys Who Like Boys, much of the gays mentioned there were afraid of men. Oh, and not only that, they are very much aggressive than women in seducing them.

And thirdly, it is influenced by media. We are now living in a world full of gadgets and gizmos around us. And even the internet, it shows us all about homosexuality. In this case, this proves that their kind can either be discriminated or treated with respect. Therefore, technology plays a dual role on treating them.

In my own view, in this country where patriarchal society exists, gays may be also included as a part of the community. They are people like us. They also have emotions. They can also easily be hurt, too. I think we should must be careful in socializing with them, for they are also sensitive to the needs of others as much to themselves.