Love Wins, Period (5/19)

This is a challenging topic, same-sex marriage. Love is simple but difficult; gay marriage is about equality in love but is based on hate and discrimination. As the saying goes, there's no joy without sadness; perhaps there's no love without hate/indifference. Could the latter be (part of) the cause of the former?

Taiwan is going to become Asia's first country to legalize same-sex marriage in 3 days on Friday, the 24th of May. The ruling came out 4 days ago on the 17th and this is not even news anymore since people went nuts on social media with their opinions whether they support it or not. Media worldwide has also covered the stories regarding this topic.

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It sucks, indeed.

Although, as always, there's the "China issue" which they try to take credit for our affairs and which some pro-China media still report the news in sentences like "...Taiwan, China...". It doesn't really bother as much anymore. Let Taiwan be Taiwan and let China be China. This "war" will not end in our time and all us common Taiwanese boys and girls just need to be firm and stay calm against their ideology.

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This whole time, since I became aware of it, I went from being annoyed, hostile, indifferent, calm, supportive to finally confused. It was very embarrassing in my adolescent years, to be honest, to have experienced how homosexual guys approach me as girls do. Well, it's simply because I'm straight. I think this phenomenon went on until my late college years and I have finally shown enough straightness to the world (jk).

This is not something I'm proud of myself being, but I had also had strong negative emotions towards the LGBT+ community and even said it out loud several times about how "they should all live on a gay island" when I was young. Of course, I have realized that it was me who was living on a small island. As time went on, I did not encounter other guys who "had barked at the wrong tree" and I thought to myself "just let'em be. It's not my fight".

The world seems to always run on the economy. We care tremendously on where the money is and where it will go but have you ever felt that our society is actually moving forward in humanity? The protests on the streets, the parade, the revolution... they really work, at least on me. I have felt the essence of the movements and am able to see beyond their "costumes".

p.s. Seriously, why are they always in good shape?

After getting passed my non-sense hostility, I began to show support to their community. I even taught lessons regarding this very topic (legalization) more than once, even though I cannot ignore this feeling of strangeness just by looking at this photo up there. However, how we feel isn't really a legitimate reason to deny someone's justifiable happiness. To be fair and honest, the emotions, no matter positive or negative, we have towards either straight or gay community are normal. They may even be mutual. The emotions or feelings aren't the problems, the lack of exposure is.

We are always afraid of the unknown, the dark, the things we cannot see and the things only known by the few. If we cannot learn in universally, there's room for manipulation. Hence, yes, we need to learn about this in school, too. It is, of course, understandable that people fear the content may be misleading, faulty or unrepresentative but the truth is, we cannot fix the problem until we look at it. The problem is still there, or even worse if we don't address it.

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What confuses me isn't the fact that there are people who are against this Act but how they are against it.

If there's one thing Taiwan is famous for, it should be its openness, casualness, and integration. OK, those are actually three things but to make it one word, freedom. We can have a female president and have Holy Mary in a parade with Mazu so tell me this. Why is it that people who don't love each other can get married but the ones who are in love cannot?

I took the liberty to spend 3 seconds thinking about this question and got these:

-birth rate

-unconventional

-doctrine

Aurora & Neo

Personally, I'm quite excited if I get inspired enough to write solely on "birth rate" but I'll save it for later. Thinking that legalizing same-sex marriage is going to affect and lower birth rate is ridiculously stupid but unfortunately true in existence. To save time, homosexuals were never going to bear babies anyways! If anything, they'll only adopt or do it through the help of our medical advancement. Isn't that why people donate eggs and sperms? It's to help those who cannot have babies by themselves.

p.s. the kids in the photo are exactly what I just mentioned, test tube twins from a lesbian family. They'll both grow up, and both become capable of love.

Traditions and customs, two sides of the same coin, are what have always been the obstacles of innovation and anything new. Smartphones, the internet, airplane, space travel, AirBnb... you name it. There is a huge amount of people who dislike or even are opposed to these ideas. They think smartphones affect our physical health, the internet gets people addicted, airplanes crash, space is off limits, AirBnB is dangerous... the list is infinite but all of the mentioned happened and we're all fine, better even.

You know we make all the doctrines, right? (I was going to stop with this sentence because it's clear enough) People make doctrines to help/guide/control/brainwash followers for their own good.

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What do you think about this issue in/about Taiwan? I, myself is a little excited about their future along with ours. It isn't their victory but ours as well. We all share the same future as long as we're here.

We represent a law-abiding democratic country.

We have the freedom to pursue happiness under the law.

We need a government that isn't just a people-pleaser but just.

We are Taiwan.

#selfreflect