Hiya peoples! . . . Can't think of a good intro to my ramblings. . . so just read, and I'm sure you'll get the idea.
Over here things are going great and I'm meeting so many people who would make the best characters in books (lots of the time because their personalities are so exaggerated and two dimensional, but what the hey, eh?).
For example, there's a shuffling old "gamekeeper" who has a certain fondness for animals that most find annoying. Remind you of a certain Harry Potter character? *nudge nudge* But in this case instead o
f Blast-Ended Screwts it's pheasants, which are, I have to tell you, the most skittish and retarded animals belonging to the bird kingdom, and that's saying something.Also there's the stay-at-home trophy wife of the mansion who hires her neighbour to off the peacocks (pets of the gamekeeper's. Not wild) without telling him. Then there's the Australian couple who're helping out as well. The woman is a masseuse who believes she has psychic abilities (if you've ever seen Friends, you know who I'm thinking about) and the man has a great sense of humour and I like him a lot.
Actually, "liked" is more like it. He just told me and Liam (nephew of owner of the property) about how when he was young he used to go gay-bashing boys at his school. Shocked, he seemed to realize his mistake, he quickly became more serious and said "Of course, I don't do that anymore. I have gay friends, you know."
I breathed a sigh of relief. So he had been stupid and cruel in his youth. Who hasn't made mistakes in their past? As long as he's realized his mistakes and feels remorse, I shouldn't judge.
"But," he continued thoughtfully. "That doesn't mean that I don't think that they shouldn't be all piled into a rugby field and left to die and rot into compost."
Jugde! Judge! Judge!
"And to be honest," he added, his usual grin coming back. "If it weren't for the fact that them gays were small and all" *does impression of weak girl* "-back then and are now many of them are tall and tough, I'd still be doing it!"
He and Liam laughed.
My opinions of them reached a low lower than mine of Dr. Delbray (aka - the Evil Scotsman who made me cry at least once a day in my first week in India). At least Dr. Delbray had the courage to insult me to my face (frequently). This Australian guy (Paul) admitted that the only time he did it was when they were smaller, weaker, and outnumbered.
And now, after my defense of homosexuals, asking him (with a bit of an edge to my voice) what he held against gays (which he said he only minded if they were men. Lesbians were fine. . . grrrrrrrrr. . . >:( ), etc. he keeps on doing impressions of stereotypical impressions of homosexuals and making stabs at them.
Damn this man! I swear, if he ever gets the hint from my falling silent whenever he talks about homosexuals through his narrow-minded cowardly skull and asks me what's wrong, I may explode and tell him exactly what.
I mean, I have nothing against people who have something against homosexuality (ie. certain Christian people in my family), but that's because I respect that other people can have different opinions. But to go from not approving of it to beating them up? And to do it just because others do it instead of upholding a moral belief? Now that's another story.
Anyhoo, but yeah.
I'm actually having a great time here. I've just helped prepare for a nice wedding, I'm getting spoiled (it just seems to follow me wherever I go. And yes, I am gloating), there's a cat and dog here that adore me, and I've just finished rereading a Harry Potter book which always puts me in a good mood (and everyone else within hearing distance in a little uneasy one. Apparently I cackle quite a bit. . . )
Hope y'rall having a ball (dance, sport, piece of anatomy, or otherwise),
Love!
Lentil,
The Girl Who Actually Started Writing This As An Email to a Friend Met in India
3 comments:
I did a quick google search on the causes of homophobia and found the following university study:
The researchers concluded that these data are consistent with the belief that most homophobic men have repressed homosexual desires. An alternative, but much less likely, explanation is that the homophobic men's erections were caused by anxiety during the experiment.
And another: elevant example here is in that this study found that the more conservative a person the more likely he/she would be to hold negative stereotypes of homosexuals (114).
In 2005 a gay man was killed every two days in Latin America because of his sexuality. In Brazil, where the government launched a campaign against homophobia in 2004, 2,509 gay men were murdered between 1997 and 2007.5
Some bad news/stats Heh? (just throughing in a bit of canadianism to keep you connected to your roots). The scary part for me is that there a tons of people inthis world who are just like 'Paul' who physically act out their hostilities, or put barriers in the way of people who are different from them. I don't know which is worse, the insidious approach or the blatant one (shown by Paul). Thank goodness you recognize the violence in the situation and that you recognize your own judgement of him at the same time.
I hope you also meet some absolutley lovely people there! We are in a warm (12 degrees at 6am) day with fog and light drizzle.
love you tons,
Mom
I still remember watching TV with Hari and hearing you laughing your head off in your room as you read the book of Keralan stories. I didn't laugh nearly so much, but I smile whenever I remember you explaining how you found it ludicrous someone could think riding a motorcycle romantic (sorry if the grammar on that came out garbled, but I understood what you meant when I read the story; I felt sorry for the poor guy).
I met Dr. Delbray in India a long time ago...back in 1997, and we had a bit of a fight...I swear he was making some queer sexual innuendo at me, and so I abandoned his company, but I still remember his indecent proposal after all these years.
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