first, i have to say something about the class activity last friday. in class, we talked about how we perceived people with different sexual orientation. our teacher asked us to draw a person given a specific gender. the groups came up with different images of people who they draw accordingly. from the activity, i honeslty believe that there's really no appropriate image that can go with a person's gender. i have learned and experienced that sometimes, what we see is really what we don't get. i mean, i have friends who are boyish and wears loose clothes but they're really not lesbians or homosexuals. they're just like that.
the assignment:
just this weekend, i went to my grandma's house for a little chit chat. we talked about how she felt about having gay friends (and yes, she did have gay friends and they were only about 7 or 8 years old). she told me that back in the days, her mom (my great grandma) would have her students go to their house for piano lessons. the students became their regular playmates since they were always there. after their lessons, they would play. one tine, it so happens that they were just fooling around and was provoking to of their friends to fight who so happens to be gay, haha! i was shocked because i never thought that there were gay kids back then. and for the story, the two "boys" fought until one went home crying. but the story doesn't end their. this boy who cried home happen to have an older sister who was a tomboy. and when she saw my grandma and the rest for what they did to her brother, they hurriedly ran away because she was way bigger than them. after her story, i asked my grandma how it was for her two friends,the "boy" and his sister(tomboy). she was very open about it. she said that they never had a problem with the two, they were ok with them. she even told me that the parents of the kids were also okay with it. i was actually shocked because i never thought people were that open about those things before. although i also know people who have stricter parents. once, when i was in high school, i had a friend who was gay, he liked boys too. he got caught in a scandal, somebody sent a video of him and a guy kissing in a cubicle to his dad. his dad got so mad, he tortured my friend until he can say and mean that he's a guy. but after this, my friend still continued to be gay but was of course limited. my grandma's generation is far more conservative before than today. it just so happened that my grandma was open minded to things like this. the only difference now is that people are more expresive of who they really are. they don't care much about what the society demands. they try to live life the way they want it to be and not the way others want it.
