antihuman

i just got back yesterday from jakarta (lloooong flight and loooong transits. super tired). it was fun and too short. i was there for a week and time flew.

anyways... lately there's this big news about this serial killer (ryan) who mutilated his victims, and he happens to be gay. it's interesting because that's the only thing the media is emphasizing. he's gay. GAY. so now, everyone is scared of gays. because all gays are dangerous and serial killers who like to cut up bodies so small you don't know who they belong to (actually, the thought of that is making me sick so i will stop describing it).

oh please...

it's sad that at this day and age, we still assign generalizations to groups of people. i mean, that was ONE gay person out of 200 million people in indonesia who is a serial murderer. saying all gays are murderers is the same thing as saying all chinese indonesians are gamblers because you happen to know a chinese indonesian living in new york who likes to gamble. or all straight people are killers too because, hey, you heard on the news there was this straight dude who killed someone. now ALL of them are killers. beware!

i'm not downplaying the fact that the murders ryan commited was astrocious and he was obviously sick (and i heard he killed a woman and her 3-year-old daughter too... that IS sick). but i don't like the fact that people think he did this only because he's gay. i know plenty of gays and lesbians and they're fine. sometimes they're better than fine. regardless of your beliefs (religious or otherwise) about same-sex relationships, we need to remember that we're all human, after all. no monkeys, just humans. if you disagree to any type of lifestyle, let's not make it worse by creating a hate culture towards a group of people. because then humanity is just regressing, and that's not a good thing.

it's going to take a miracle to change the attitudes of the millions of indonesians who are now scared of gays (sad, i know), but hopefully one of you will read this and change your mind (and your heart). even if just a little.