Debate topic: The house believes our Society is justified in being Homophobic
I spoke against the house. And the following is what I spoke:
Good evening men, women, gays and lesbians (if any).
The moment you are told that the guy or the girl sitting next to you is gay, you start feeling uncomfortable. Oh, don’t you? Talk about homophobia! I ask you one thing, just have a look at the person sitting right next to you, right now. Yeah do that. What if he/she really IS gay? Should that fact change anything? He is not a psychopath who is going to rape your mother and then leave you a mail, saying he enjoyed every moment of it. She is not an insane criminal who will shoot your entire family in cold blood and be proud of doing that. He is just gay and she is just a lesbian for heaven’s sake. These are normal people whose sexual preferences don’t match with the so called normal majority.
I am a man, you can see that. I don’t have to unzip my pants to prove my gender. I AM a man. I am man coz I act like a man. Like say, drool over those big sized curves that are supposed to excite every man. But lemme ask you this: how did I become a man, when did I become a man? The moment I took birth, is it what you say? No, you are wrong. My birth determined my sex, and your birth determined yours. After that society took over. It was ready with two broad categories where it would throw you into. Be a male or a female, merely based on your sexual organs! Now, I grew up to be a great man, and most of us fit into these two categories. But not all of us! And those who don’t fit should not be blamed or feared of!
You call homosexuality disgusting? You wanna know what really is disgusting? Unfair discrimination based on sexual preference is DISGUSTING my dear friend.
So far, nobody’s been able to show that homosex causes harm or is unnatural or warps the fabric of society, or whatever. All that people are able to show is that some people don’t like it, and think that God thinks it wrong. But that’s not good enough for winning an argument in a multi-cultural, democratic society committed to constitutionally protect individual rights. In such societies, you can do what you want as long as you don’t cause harm to others. Everything else is a matter of taste.
And as I end my debate, here’s my last bit on those who say it’s not natural. Bruce Bagemihl’s 1999 scientific study, Biological Exuberance: animal Homosexuality and Natural Diversity lists down all kinds of animals which display homosexual behavior. Go read it, the list is endless: African Buffalo, Australian Sea Lion, Asian elephant, Sperm Whale, Vampire Bat, Indian Rhinoceros, Wild Goat, the long tailed hermit hummingbird, the side blotched lizard, the speckled Rattlesnake, the fruit fly, the house fly, red ant. (In hush voice)- I myself have seen gay monkeys having a blast right there sitting on the parapet wall, in front of my room.
Give them a chance to be happy and gay. Thank you.
PS: My two member team (myself and SDK who spoke for the topic) cleared the prelims, waiting for the final. (This was an inter hostel debating competition held in IIT Madras for which 18 teams turned up. 8 of them made it to the finals, which shall be held some time later)
12 replies on “Homophoebia justified?”
congts ! 🙂
congrats again!!
well written dude….great…!!
Your writing shows your preferances.
Cheers!!
@Nimit, Aniket, Prachi
Thanks! 🙂
@Neelabh
LOL! If I were gay I would have married you! 😛 Love you man!
yo dude. u r officially our messiah. be prepared to give the same speech at infy gay parades;):)
Gay community is honoured to have such a messiah for them…
Hail Amrit……
sheesh…im having a sorta identity crisis here
for future reference , “gen guy” and “gay guy” are copy righted ,All rights reserved. No part of my name blah blah…hope i made my point.
And gay dude., be original man. erm, let it not seem like i dont support ur cause becuz, ur cause is my cause is our cause. Cause rules, not the effect.
Nice take on a very important issue. Again like a lot of things that are wrong in our world today, this too has roots, at least partially, in religion. Homosexuals apparently are against GOD’s order . Heh.
I really empathize with all homosexuals who face such discrimination. You really only need to put yourself in these people’s shoes and think what they must go through to understand their plight.
no matter wat!!..no one is frightned of gay..but to satisfy their feelings are we d prey??…do they have rights to disturb us just to satisfy their feelings???
Sabke saamne aisi baatein nahin karte.. Waise hi ladkiyaan bhav nahin deti:(
@Gay guy/dude
I would love to have more updates on whatever this infy gay parades is! Sounds funny to me! 🙂 Btw, thank you for the honour bestowed upon me!
@Sahil
Yeah man agree to you. But do make sure that you only try to put yourself in their shoes and not putting shoes in…. 😛
@Ram
Whoever said you are a prey? Whoever asked you to satisfy someone who is gay? Did a homosexual approach you recently? I fail to understand your comment totally!
@Neelabh
Ye jo public hai, sab jaanti hai! 🙂