on YouTube. it's title wasn't very incentive but straight to the point: imagine a world where being gay was the norm and being straight was the minority. well I don't think that's the legit title but it certainly gets peoples attention. the whole thing was very inspiring and extremely emotional. :tears: but what if hetro phobia was real? what then? I recommend you watch it for yourself. it's amazing
I've seen it and it is very touching. I kind of wanted to cry myself. I watched it a while ago. I've done a lot of searching for those kind of videos in my time. Yah, I don't know how hetero people would take it. It's really funny how I feel like this video should inspire empathy in them, when in reality a lot of them still hate us.
Using the method of reverse psychology just like this amazing video is how I totally blew my sister's mind:eek: about how the only choice homosexuals have to make is whether to accept it or deny it and yet I still didn't end up coming out to her. :eusa_doh::icon_sad:
ah, that sucks yah, it's really hard to come out even with obvious evidence like that to pave the way for acceptance
It is. How it compares to homophobia is something to debate, but it is out there. It's even reared it's head on this forum. As for the video itself, I think it's worth a watch once, but having seen it and heard it referenced a lot, it doesn't really impress me anymore.
The English army had just won the war... Watched this in an RE lesson last year while we were studying sexual ethics. In a class of all straight people (that I know of and I wasn't out at the time) it just made everyone awkward. No one in the class is homophobic and its a very open and modern school, but still this film had a strange effect on the class. We didn't really discuss it as a class, our teacher just wanted it to sink in. Personally the film disturbed me at first because the bullying shown was so extreme. Where I am the worst homophobia seen is just using gay as an insult and making gay jokes in the same way people would make inappropriate race jokes etc. I mean, I knew this kind if stuff happened, but this was the most vivid depiction of it I'd yet seen, and it stuck with me for a long time. I feel kind if bad that I was afroad of coming out for so long even though I knew the whole time I'd never experience what the girl in the video did. I'm only now (having been outed a few months ago and no body having any real issue with it) realising that in many parts of the world this kind of awful stuff could have happened to me. Makes me feel lucky, but guilty.
I saw it too, there have actually been a lot of threads made about it, one by myself haha. It did make me cry though, just that the notion of bullying that horrific exists...
I have no idea which one we're talking about, there are plenty of them on youtube covering the same topic.
[YOUTUBE]CnOJgDW0gPI[/YOUTUBE] I think it's this one. I've seem it a couple times now, and it raises good points, such as if this was real wouldn't the human race be non existent as it is biologically impossible to procreate with somebody of the same sex, and 'holy shit people have had to go through this?' ---------- Post added 23rd Aug 2015 at 10:52 PM ---------- Are you a mind reader that can articulate my innermost thoughts or something?
Am I the only one who looked at the title of this thread and thought of The Beatles: A Day in the Life (1 minute mark). [YOUTUBE]pPSR9K7tzPc[/YOUTUBE]
I watched that over a year go and I know there are heterophobes out there I can be one sometimes myself.
I saw that a while ago... maybe a couple years back... I still haven't gotten enough courage to watch it again. I don't like watching media in which the protagonist commits suicide. It makes me sad...
Same here. People just to call me a 'lesbo' and a faggot and follow me home from school shouting and throwing things at me, but that's the extent to which it went. When it ended, everyone was awkward for a while and then this asshole in my class started shouting 'hetero' in everyone's faces for the next three or four weeks.
I saw this film a short while ago. It's really thought-provoking and I think that switching around the situation is a great way to get the audience to relate and allows the film to really sink in.
I've seen it as well, a few times I think. The ending still gets to me though, so I don't think I could watch it again. :tears: It raises a lot of important points, and yet there were quite a few people who seemed to of missed the point, especially if you look at some of the comments people make about it. It's not meant to be a serious representation of such a world, but rather to show the roles reversed and show issues many LGBT people face in certain areas. Admittedly, I've never been through treatment that harsh shown in the video, the worst I've ever got was being spat at and ignored. Still I know there are people out there who do face discrimination to this degree (and worse) out there so it does raise some valid points.
