Alright, I have a weird thing that I need to get off my chest. And when I say it, it may come off as incredibly insensitive or mean, and that is not my intention, so before you drop down to the comment box to rip me a new one, please read my whole rant.
Alright, so I noticed today on my feed that several people have shared a recent story about Ellen Page coming out or whatever. The first time I saw it, I shrugged. Then the more and more I saw it, I got to thinking and thought:
And I didn’t mean that in an “Oh, I knew she was gay, you can totally tell!” kind of way, but in a “Why the hell are stories like this still news?!” Why does it NEED be newsworthy? Why haven’t we evolved past that yet? A person’s sexual orientation shouldn’t be any more newsworthy than a person’s hair color (although I did see somewhere that tabloids were going nuts when Kim Kardashian went from “blonde” back to her natural hair color… 1.) that was not blonde. 2.) Nothing on her is natural… anyway). I understand how a celebrity, who is adored by so many people, coming out can help to generate support and let others know that they’re not alone, but what I don’t understand is… why aren’t we already in a place where being gay or straight or bi doesn’t matter anymore than what your eye color is? Why are we still a society of labels? Tall, short, fat, thin, black, white, blonde, brunette, gay, straight, bi- why should any of these labels matter? Shouldn’t we be judged by our character rather than some characteristic? This is 2014 for crying out loud! How long has man been roaming around this planet? Long enough that we should have figured out by now how to get along with one another. Underneath all of those labels, aren’t we all the same? People? I look forward to the day where stories of people coming out of the closet are no longer a big deal, or we don’t hear about them at all because no one will feel the need to be in the closet to begin with.
