CNN
I was flipping through channels a couple weeks ago, and ended up on CNN. That's how I found out about all the suicides in recent weeks.
I've been continuing to watch CNN now, trying to see coverage of the bullying issue and the gay rights movement.
And I must say, I am so, so, so impressed at how outraged everyone I've seen on the news team is. I just watched a newscaster become shocked at how "ancient" a certain political member's views of homosexuality were. He had likened it to alcoholism as a "choice". She ended her segment by asking "If your orientation is a choice, then when did you choose to be straight?"
I think just the very fact that so many in the media and the government are outraged and shocked that homophobia is still around and people are still doing horrible things to people - to KIDS - that are or are percieved to be gay.
We've come a long way when it seems the majority of people are gay-friendly.
There was an instance where an FtM was voted Homecoming King by his peers. He was only barred from taking the title by the school administration. I think that it shows a lot of progress where teens, seen as relentless in bullying, would choose this boy as their homecoming king. Doesn't that show such progressiveness?
I think polititians and lawmakers, and members of the schoolboard, need to get with the times. They need to realize that discrimination is NOT ok, and it will NOT be accepted anymore.
All the people fighting for this just make me so happy. It brings me to tears all the people who've taken a stand.
I've been continuing to watch CNN now, trying to see coverage of the bullying issue and the gay rights movement.
And I must say, I am so, so, so impressed at how outraged everyone I've seen on the news team is. I just watched a newscaster become shocked at how "ancient" a certain political member's views of homosexuality were. He had likened it to alcoholism as a "choice". She ended her segment by asking "If your orientation is a choice, then when did you choose to be straight?"
I think just the very fact that so many in the media and the government are outraged and shocked that homophobia is still around and people are still doing horrible things to people - to KIDS - that are or are percieved to be gay.
We've come a long way when it seems the majority of people are gay-friendly.
There was an instance where an FtM was voted Homecoming King by his peers. He was only barred from taking the title by the school administration. I think that it shows a lot of progress where teens, seen as relentless in bullying, would choose this boy as their homecoming king. Doesn't that show such progressiveness?
I think polititians and lawmakers, and members of the schoolboard, need to get with the times. They need to realize that discrimination is NOT ok, and it will NOT be accepted anymore.
All the people fighting for this just make me so happy. It brings me to tears all the people who've taken a stand.