What Has Society Come To?

     At this moment, there are thousands of people fighting for equal treatment. These people are being constantly put down by society and everyone around them. Their rights are constantly being shot down and anything they try to do to gain their rights back lead to even more suppression and pain. These people are those who have different sexual orientations than everyone else. Whether someone is gay, lesbian, bisexual or anything else, they are still human beings. Nothing can change that. America is supposedly the country in which anyone is accepted and anyone has the same rights as everyone else. But look at where we are. Look at all the people around you anyone you know who has a different sexual orientation than the "norm" of society. They are not getting the rights they deserve. They fight and fight with everything they have in them and they are being neglected because they are different. They are being put down because they have the bravery and the determination to stand up for what they want and what they deserve. And yes. They do have every right to fight for what they deserve; to have what they deserve.

     It is within the people of America's discretion to determine whether or not these people can have their rights. If this is so, I don't understand why people refuse to vote on equal rights. It may be that your religion or family or beliefs and morals tell you that being gay is wrong, but think about it, if you were put in such a situation in which you have no power to determine whether or not you can have the right to marry or even have the comfort of coming out and telling everyone who you really are, would you like everyone around you to shun you and ignore your desperate pleads for equality? 

    Time and time again, many people have been suppressed because they are different from everyone else in society or because others believe that they do not deserve their rights. Here in America, there are so many incidents of this occurring and this country is called "The Land of the Free". I can't imagine what it is like in other countries at all.

Change For Who? Response Post

"The thing about society is that people - a lot of them being mostly women - want to alter something about their body. They don't appriciate what they have, they complain, then they try to change it. Some want to look like celebrities, some like their friends, who the hell knows."

     I took this quote from Ruby Rew's blog. I agree with every word that Ruby said. In my earlier response post on Crystal Lau's prosthetic body parts post, I expressed a lot of how I felt about how people constantly want to change themselves. Here, I would like to talk about how specifically society causes everyone to feel unstable. Society, like Ruby said, forces people to be very conscience about their bodies and their looks in general. Many people fail to recognize the fact that they have everything they need to beautiful in their own unique way and not in the way that all society wants them to be.
     Society wants everyone to follow one trend and to look a certain way in order to seem beautiful. Everyone falls for this trap and many cannot catch themselves in the act of doing so. We constantly subject ourselves to the pitfalls of society when we strive to become someone we are not to blend into society. And because our society's normalities are constantly changing, we force ourselves to keep track of all the specific trends and looks of "today". And then following this obsession we all have, we change ourselves, our style, our personality to become what society's model of a perfect person is.  Many times this "perfect person" is flawless in every aspect. They have the perfect body, the shiny soft hair, the flawless skin and the blend of all the best looks. But it's obviously impossible to become that person. Even when you try to change everything about yourself, you will never be satisfied because all you can think about is being more and more attractive in society's eyes.
     We have to realize that we are all beautiful no matter what society labels as it's definition of beautiful. There shouldn't be a time in which you don't feel like your're not enough simply because you are not society's model of "perfect". Do not let the voice of society keep you from being you and believing that you are awesome the way you are.