Homosexuality

An open minded person can take advantage of newer ideas in order to keep up with the current or oncoming trends in various sectors. Adapting to new trends, embracing change, accepting the strange and the different is a signal that we are ready for the future. It is through stepping out of our pasts’ shadows and uncertainties that we can readily say that we are no longer cavemen, we are no longer ignorant and we are no longer afraid. During Alan Turing’s time, they believed that homosexuality was a threat to society. But exactly why and how it was a threat, had arguments that we had now resolved and proven wrong. Here was a man who held superior knowledge on the realms of Mathematics and Science, he was known to have broken the enigma code of the Germans, he had in his mind envisioned the potential of computers, of artificial intelligence basically, the future that we are in now but all of these didn’t matter, in society’s eyes he was a criminal the moment they found out that he was a homosexual. They were willing to let a brilliant mind go and they branded him for the path he had taken. With the contributions Alan Turing had given, whether to ease the burden of war and life altogether, and the things that he and the many others who were wrongfully persecuted could have discovered, what difference does this one life make? A lot.

Yet, even years of progress and continuous change have failed to open our eyes not just to gender inequality but to a lot more social issues. As some may overlook, stereotyping has become a way of labeling and even discriminating people without even recognizing their individuality or even knowing them personally. With just a glance, a lot of people nowadays think that they know a person and from the way they dress, talk and walk his or her personality is immediately thought to have surfaced just like that. People may not take such remark seriously but social degradation such as being suicidal for Japanese, being terrorists for Muslims, being Jesus freaks for Christians and being push-overs and easy to manipulate for Asian women. Although mere assumptions, these remarks have gone from bad to worst as these stereotypes haunt those who are not even close to what people assume them to be.