How many times have we reacted
in a proper way to things different from our conveniences?
How many times have we shrieked at the sight of people slightly different from
us?
The answer surely can’t be counted even in that super fast brain that some of us
have.
It is the nature of human beings as the great comic book writer, Stan Lee, puts
it in his comics, is to react differently to unknown things and sometimes, even
violently (The most famous case, the X-Men). Now, we do not have mutants out
here like in the comics but we do have some sexual mutations, those mutations
are called the transgender individuals in our society. We have seen numerous
individuals, male and female, slashing some traits of the opposite sex. And the
reaction in each case remains the same, labeling him or her as the girly or the
boyish type. Very frequently, such cases lead their ways into the clutches of
crime and mental instability. The society exhorts us to treat these individuals
with a difference, a difference created by the society, itself, against
individuals having a varied sexual desires and personalities.
The very polite boy, who likes to hang out with the girls, is a gay, or a girl
who sleeps with a girl is a lesbian, we do jump to conclusions in seconds,
though very rarely, these predictions are true. For a boy, he can hang out with
the girls, maybe he is not the robust types. Or a girl might like to sleep with
another girl; maybe she is just afraid of the dark, who has given the society
the right to infiltrate the boundaries of their privacy? And even if it has, who
has allowed them to jump to conclusions rapidly without a proper argument and
debate and dictate their social behavior?
Those individuals who have faced such incessant taunts in their childhood are
either mentally in-stable or have secluded themselves from the society. Many
boys, tagged in their childhood, as girly, take up drinking just to prove that
they are guys. So, our society now needs a guy to drink to prove that he is a
guy, such is the hypocrisy. Taunted by the society by its dogmatic agendas that
a guy or a girl should have a fixed set of characters , these individuals simply
drift away, sometimes lock themselves up, in their own mind, which I believe, is
a lot more beautiful than many of us.
You can imagine that if our society reacts to only indications like that, how it
will react to actual case of homosexuality. I admit, heterosexuality, is the
general case, but being homosexual is not a difference, it is rather just an
exception to the general case, and examples of such exceptions are abundant in
Mother Nature. Also, being homosexual, does not at all affect the person that
anyone is, it just affects his sexual desires, which I suppose, is a private
thing in our country.