Ok, so I have a few social topics and two random topics to complain about today. Ready?
Colors:
Boys wear blue, girls wear pink. Why? Why is it like that? Today at work a little boy asked for a pink balloon, but his mom said 'why do you want a pink balloon? Pink is a girl color' Not really, it's just a color, it's just society who have it in their minds that colors belong to a certain gender. I think I'm going to have a son and make him wear pink just to piss people off.
Discrimination:
We all know that it's illegal or taboo to discrimate people based on sex, skin color, ethnic origin, sexual orientation, religion, etc. But what about age? Pretty much everyone I know has, I'm guilty too, said something bad about old people 'I don't want to talk to him, he's an old man!' Or, when they're walking behind an old person who's walking slow, people will say 'move grandma!' You never hear anyone say 'Move n*gger!' Being old is something you can help and is noticeable like all the other stuff I mentioned, so isn't discriminating against them the same thing?
Censorship:
Censorship is something that really annoys me. In US there's censorship all over the media, but hardly ever in Europe. Sex scenes are covered up/shortened, swear words are beaped out, and body parts are covered. I've watched some of the same stuff in Europe and saw/heard the real stuff, they even show boobs on commerials. Why? We already know what's being said/shown and boobs/butts/penises, they're just body parts aren't they?
Magazines:
So, I was in line at a store and saw one of those magazines that always have captions on the front page that say 'have great sex with your man!' and stuff like that. I've seen covers of gay/lesbian magazines and never seen stuff like that. My theory is that since a guy/girl know someone of the same sex's body so they don't need magazines to tell them to have good sex :P
Kings:
I just finished watching the premier of a new show. It seems pretty interesting. It's called kings, it's about a king and his kingdom and people and stuff, but it takes place in the modern world. In other words, imagine today's US, France, UK but ruled by an absolute monarchy. Hmm. Anyway, the fictional country's at war and there's a soldier who saved the king's son who was a hostage and the soldier gets famous and the king eventually uses him. The soldier and the king's son are hooooot. The soldier so was looking at the prince like 'I want that bitch'. I think they should have sex. There needs to be more random gay characters in tv shows and in books. Just think 'he put a gun to the guy's head and then they had sex' Now wouldn't that be a good book? :P
Sunday, March 15, 2009
Thursday, March 12, 2009
Flaunting (and other random stuff)
Some things that have happened made me think today during a boring shift at work about gay pride. Many (close-minded) heterosexuals especially in the US complain how gays and lesbians flaunt their sexuality with rainbow stickers and gay-related shirts, gay pride parades, and other items. They claim that we're looking for sex and that if we want equality we shouldn't do this. Right... well the point of this is to show we have pride for who we are and to tell other people they're not alone.
'Why do gay people feel the need to flaunt their sexuality when you never see straight people do that?' Oh really? You never see straight people doing this? Whenever I go out here, you see guys holding hands with their girlfriends, kissing in public, showing off their wedding rings, have straight-targeted advertisements/commercials, have shirts like 'remember my name because you'll be screaming it later', and pretty much fucking each other in public while if an average joe sees two guys holding hands all hell breaks lose. I know this 'straight flaunting' isn't intentional, but they're still flaunting it. I really hate when people say 'I don't care if you're gay as long as you don't show it in public' Does it seriously fucking matter at the end of the day that we're gay? Does it effect your life in the smallest bit?
Another reason for some by wearing lgbt related stuff is to let other people know they're gay/bi. Some of us get really sick of the opposite coming up and flirting with us :P If a gay guy goes up to a straight guy and flirts with him, he'll get upset and will probably punch him... That makes me think of something else. Why are guys so much more uptight about gay guys than straight girls are with lesbians? By that I mean, girls don't mind if another girl flirts with them or even are more willing to experiment with another girl. Two straight girls hold hands in public, hug each other, sit on each other's lap. Guys, nooooo. If I go up to a guy and flirt with him, he'll probably say 'I'm not gay, fuck you, you're sick, walks away'. Guys barely make physical contact with each other. Are most of them uncomfortable with their sexuality and are secretly gay but are too afraid to let others know by being close with another guy? From my experience, if a guy at work finds out that I'm gay he'll probably quit or tease me by saying that I want him (it's really disgusting when the guy is terribly ugly and just gross, yes this has happened!). Ummm, don't flatter yourself, I can get better guys than you. Maybe they feel their masculinity is threatened by gay guys?
And another thing! Why do people say 'You're not gay, you just haven't found the right girl yet (or guy if directed to a lesbian)'? UGHGHHGHHH. You can just say 'well maybe just you haven't found the right guy/girl yet' 'I'm not attracted to the same sex' *shoots self up with heroin*
Even more annoying, especially for lesbians, when a guy tells them they can convert them. Or when they say 'you're lesbian because you haven't found me yet' 'Ooooh you sex god, make me straight!'
A thing that made me sad today.
I was at my lgbt club today and one of the girls in their said that her gay friend and his husband who were married in California might be forced to get a divorce and get their sons taken away from the government (I don't know if the details are 100% correct, but it was something like this). Ughhh, I hate the Right.
Sorry, if this might have come out heterophobic, I was just mad about certain stuff*
'Why do gay people feel the need to flaunt their sexuality when you never see straight people do that?' Oh really? You never see straight people doing this? Whenever I go out here, you see guys holding hands with their girlfriends, kissing in public, showing off their wedding rings, have straight-targeted advertisements/commercials, have shirts like 'remember my name because you'll be screaming it later', and pretty much fucking each other in public while if an average joe sees two guys holding hands all hell breaks lose. I know this 'straight flaunting' isn't intentional, but they're still flaunting it. I really hate when people say 'I don't care if you're gay as long as you don't show it in public' Does it seriously fucking matter at the end of the day that we're gay? Does it effect your life in the smallest bit?
Another reason for some by wearing lgbt related stuff is to let other people know they're gay/bi. Some of us get really sick of the opposite coming up and flirting with us :P If a gay guy goes up to a straight guy and flirts with him, he'll get upset and will probably punch him... That makes me think of something else. Why are guys so much more uptight about gay guys than straight girls are with lesbians? By that I mean, girls don't mind if another girl flirts with them or even are more willing to experiment with another girl. Two straight girls hold hands in public, hug each other, sit on each other's lap. Guys, nooooo. If I go up to a guy and flirt with him, he'll probably say 'I'm not gay, fuck you, you're sick, walks away'. Guys barely make physical contact with each other. Are most of them uncomfortable with their sexuality and are secretly gay but are too afraid to let others know by being close with another guy? From my experience, if a guy at work finds out that I'm gay he'll probably quit or tease me by saying that I want him (it's really disgusting when the guy is terribly ugly and just gross, yes this has happened!). Ummm, don't flatter yourself, I can get better guys than you. Maybe they feel their masculinity is threatened by gay guys?
And another thing! Why do people say 'You're not gay, you just haven't found the right girl yet (or guy if directed to a lesbian)'? UGHGHHGHHH. You can just say 'well maybe just you haven't found the right guy/girl yet' 'I'm not attracted to the same sex' *shoots self up with heroin*
Even more annoying, especially for lesbians, when a guy tells them they can convert them. Or when they say 'you're lesbian because you haven't found me yet' 'Ooooh you sex god, make me straight!'
A thing that made me sad today.
I was at my lgbt club today and one of the girls in their said that her gay friend and his husband who were married in California might be forced to get a divorce and get their sons taken away from the government (I don't know if the details are 100% correct, but it was something like this). Ughhh, I hate the Right.
Sorry, if this might have come out heterophobic, I was just mad about certain stuff*
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Reswedishfied
So, I'm back home after many hours of travelling back to Buffalo. Tomorrow I have to go back to work aka boredom. Everyone's going to ask
'Will!! Where have you been!
In my other country
Oooh, how was it??
Not long enough
Well there's really more that I would say, but jag hinner inte säga allt.
So, I'll try to shorten it down a little bit
I left on Feb. 18th Buffalo-DC-Brussels-Stockholm. Everything went well, but fun stuff at the airport in Brussels. My breakfast consisted of a chocolate roll, which is probably the best thing I've ever eaten and a beer (yes for breakfast! you just grab it there and they don't ask you for ID or anything!). Then there were two really hot guys working at a smoothie station so I had to get a smoothie. God they were hot, some other hotties too... I certainly wouldn't mind moving to Belgium! I got to speak some French too.
I spent two nights in Stockholm. It was nice, bigger than I thought it was. I was alone, so it wasn't that fun. I pretty much just walked around/got lost, shopped, and ate.
Then I took a tåg to Linköping. Karin and Tim surprised me at the station. It felt pretty weird being back at first, but after a few seconds it felt like I was just gone on vacation for a few weeks. We then went to Matilda's birthday party and I stayed over there for the rest of my trip with her nice family.
The weird thing is, after being back/speaking Swedish a few hours, my English got bad again! Surprisingly I remembered quite a lot of Swedish, yay.
I'm tired and jetlagged so I'll just give a brief thing on what I did in Linköping
-had fun with friends
- had dinner/lunch/fika with other people
- visited my old school and my teachers/other friends. They were like 'hej, HEEEEJ!!' They were so surprised
-Fikade a lot
-Shopped
-Bought champange truffels with Karin
-Danced in stores
-Walked around
-Went to uni with Matilda, she had Chinese and couldn't understand anything
-Saw/talked with random people from school in town/on the bus
-Bought alcohol legally, that felt nice
Overall it was a really nice trip and it was so fun to be back. I really missed everyone/everything and was happy to see everyone even though I didn't get to see everyone. I did see Gunn and Ingrid on webcam, if that counts as seeing them.
You know who else I saw? Hot guys, really hot ones and a lot of them, especially at Matilda's school, dammmmn. Now I'm back here and I'm going to start crying any minute because there aren't as many really hot guys which makes me feel asexual at times hehe. Hot guy deprived, faaaan =(
Being back made me realized how much I missed Europe and the lifestyl and stuff. I'm going to söka some universities in some countries over there. Wish me luck!
The journey back was alright, just long. Stockholm-Frankfurt-Chicago-Buffalo. On the flights to Frankfurt and Chicago there were crying babies on board. That was annoying. Good thing they stopped otherwise I would have given them something to cry about.
KRAM
'Will!! Where have you been!
In my other country
Oooh, how was it??
Not long enough
Well there's really more that I would say, but jag hinner inte säga allt.
So, I'll try to shorten it down a little bit
I left on Feb. 18th Buffalo-DC-Brussels-Stockholm. Everything went well, but fun stuff at the airport in Brussels. My breakfast consisted of a chocolate roll, which is probably the best thing I've ever eaten and a beer (yes for breakfast! you just grab it there and they don't ask you for ID or anything!). Then there were two really hot guys working at a smoothie station so I had to get a smoothie. God they were hot, some other hotties too... I certainly wouldn't mind moving to Belgium! I got to speak some French too.
I spent two nights in Stockholm. It was nice, bigger than I thought it was. I was alone, so it wasn't that fun. I pretty much just walked around/got lost, shopped, and ate.
Then I took a tåg to Linköping. Karin and Tim surprised me at the station. It felt pretty weird being back at first, but after a few seconds it felt like I was just gone on vacation for a few weeks. We then went to Matilda's birthday party and I stayed over there for the rest of my trip with her nice family.
The weird thing is, after being back/speaking Swedish a few hours, my English got bad again! Surprisingly I remembered quite a lot of Swedish, yay.
I'm tired and jetlagged so I'll just give a brief thing on what I did in Linköping
-had fun with friends
- had dinner/lunch/fika with other people
- visited my old school and my teachers/other friends. They were like 'hej, HEEEEJ!!' They were so surprised
-Fikade a lot
-Shopped
-Bought champange truffels with Karin
-Danced in stores
-Walked around
-Went to uni with Matilda, she had Chinese and couldn't understand anything
-Saw/talked with random people from school in town/on the bus
-Bought alcohol legally, that felt nice
Overall it was a really nice trip and it was so fun to be back. I really missed everyone/everything and was happy to see everyone even though I didn't get to see everyone. I did see Gunn and Ingrid on webcam, if that counts as seeing them.
You know who else I saw? Hot guys, really hot ones and a lot of them, especially at Matilda's school, dammmmn. Now I'm back here and I'm going to start crying any minute because there aren't as many really hot guys which makes me feel asexual at times hehe. Hot guy deprived, faaaan =(
Being back made me realized how much I missed Europe and the lifestyl and stuff. I'm going to söka some universities in some countries over there. Wish me luck!
The journey back was alright, just long. Stockholm-Frankfurt-Chicago-Buffalo. On the flights to Frankfurt and Chicago there were crying babies on board. That was annoying. Good thing they stopped otherwise I would have given them something to cry about.
KRAM
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