the answer to a riddle
http://news.yahoo.com/video/us-15749625/different-generations-same-riddle-21861323
Now, this isn't primarily about homosexuality or have a huge connection to it, but there's a little part of this video that just has me smiling and believing in the younger generation more so than the generations older than me (I'm 20) or even my own generation.
Basically, if you don't want to watch the video, there's this riddle that has confused people for decades/generations. "The way you answer it explains a lot about how you view the world."
The riddle: A father and a son are in a car accident. The father dies immediately and the son is rushed to the emergency room where the head surgeon says "I cannot operate on this boy because he is my son." Who is the surgeon?
The answers vary when asking the "older" generations--things like God, a step-father, a birth father assuming that the father who died was the adoptive father, etc. But, when questioning the younger generations (in this, it's fifth graders from NYC) the answers range from mother (which is the supposed "correct" answer) to the son having two fathers (in the sense of a gay couple); apparently that's a response that came up wicked often, or that's just how I choose to interpret the video...cause they never came out and said that it was that way, just that's how one group of boys saw it, but a ton of people said "it's another father", so who knows.
Just the fact that kids would be thinking that there's two fathers in that sense, makes me happy that the younger generation isn't being entirely corrupted into thinking that homosexuality is a disease/sickness/a sin/whatever because at least they'll mention it, whereas I'd assume that the "older" generations wouldn't be likely to interpret it that way, let alone answer it that way. They'd probably be more likely to say "Oh, it's a step-father" as opposed to "Oh, it's probably his other father if his parents are gay."
They (the children) even mentioned how everyone has the same rights. I only wish that were true. Maybe by the time these kids graduate high school there will have been equal rights [for everyone] for several years.
I really hope these tags are appropriate/right and not completely off-base...and this is totally my first non-comment post. Hope it's okay to have posted it even though it's not "directly" about the LGBTA community. I also have to admit that my first response to the riddle was "Mother" and not "Gay couple" but if I had actually thought about it for more than a second, I probably would have grouped them together, or I hope I would have.
Now, this isn't primarily about homosexuality or have a huge connection to it, but there's a little part of this video that just has me smiling and believing in the younger generation more so than the generations older than me (I'm 20) or even my own generation.
Basically, if you don't want to watch the video, there's this riddle that has confused people for decades/generations. "The way you answer it explains a lot about how you view the world."
The riddle: A father and a son are in a car accident. The father dies immediately and the son is rushed to the emergency room where the head surgeon says "I cannot operate on this boy because he is my son." Who is the surgeon?
The answers vary when asking the "older" generations--things like God, a step-father, a birth father assuming that the father who died was the adoptive father, etc. But, when questioning the younger generations (in this, it's fifth graders from NYC) the answers range from mother (which is the supposed "correct" answer) to the son having two fathers (in the sense of a gay couple); apparently that's a response that came up wicked often, or that's just how I choose to interpret the video...cause they never came out and said that it was that way, just that's how one group of boys saw it, but a ton of people said "it's another father", so who knows.
Just the fact that kids would be thinking that there's two fathers in that sense, makes me happy that the younger generation isn't being entirely corrupted into thinking that homosexuality is a disease/sickness/a sin/whatever because at least they'll mention it, whereas I'd assume that the "older" generations wouldn't be likely to interpret it that way, let alone answer it that way. They'd probably be more likely to say "Oh, it's a step-father" as opposed to "Oh, it's probably his other father if his parents are gay."
They (the children) even mentioned how everyone has the same rights. I only wish that were true. Maybe by the time these kids graduate high school there will have been equal rights [for everyone] for several years.
I really hope these tags are appropriate/right and not completely off-base...and this is totally my first non-comment post. Hope it's okay to have posted it even though it's not "directly" about the LGBTA community. I also have to admit that my first response to the riddle was "Mother" and not "Gay couple" but if I had actually thought about it for more than a second, I probably would have grouped them together, or I hope I would have.