I used to think that press is based on objectivity, and
its one purpose is to tell people a story without
personal interference whatsoever, especially when it
comes to very sensitive subjects like homosexuality. But
once again, yet another article from Al-Arabia
concerning yet another homosexual movie is written with
terms that are today rejected by modern psychology.
The article starts
with the word “shouzouz” which is a term that explicitly
states abnormality. It discusses an Egyptian movie
called Hot Relations.Now besides the article itself
being very offensive towards homosexuals and only
covering one side of public opinion, it reaches its peak
when we read the interview with the producer. He says
that both women were straight but their life
circumstances had led them to become lesbians, a comment
which once again provides false evidence. Indeed, modern
psychology maintains that lesbians are simply lesbians,
and that no life circumstances have pushed them to
become lovers of women. Here I might have to point out
that Al-Arabiya should seriously either educate its
writers and journalists, or hire someone who has a clue
about being more open towards human rights in general,
and who is familiar with modern scientific psychology.
This article is
not only humiliating for lesbians but also for women in
general since it discusses how we live in an “oriental”
society where women should not have any personal freedom
in choosing who to love, which for me is something
extremely stupid as well. Based on the article written,
the movie shows that a guy will be the savior and will
help the “sick lesbian” to get rid of her “lesbian
disease.” This once again provides the public with false
ideas, since first, darling, lesbianism is not a
sickness but more like a blessing; and second, men,
regardless of how manly they are, are not the cure, not
even close. Now, after reading this article, and
undergoing shocks that leave you feeling emotionally
bashed, you scroll down to the peak of the peaks: the
readers’ comments.
When I first
started reading Al-Arabiya’s articles on homosexuality,
I could barely get over the trauma caused by all the
bashing comments. The latter clearly state that
homosexuals are hated by God, and that this, strangely
enough, is what the West is doing to us. Some also seem
to believe that the devil is playing with homosexuals’
minds and that the producer should fear God and never
forget that we all are sick and should be cured by
religion or, in other cases, by males. Other comments
are something along the lines of “thank god we don’t
have homosexuals” in “a certain country,” places where I
myself know almost four. What you read in the comment
pages can be seriously hilarious; luckily from time to
time some individuals who are open-minded enough and
accepting enough surface and tell the commentators that
they should either educate themselves, or at least know
more about the subject before bashing it.
Once, between all
these scary comments (which if true, then I am
definitely going to hell, but I know that they are not)
I met Fatima. She is a woman who left a comment saying
that she was not a lesbian before her husband asked her
for a threesome. Since then, she realized she preferred
women and found out that she was a lesbian herself. So
allow me to send my best regards in this page to Fatima,
wherever she may be, and tell her that she is my
personal hero, and that I wish for her and every other
woman in the world to be liberated from all the
closed-mindedness and all the injustice they are
surrounded with. |
