I think that people who created marriage at that time didn't have any LGBT couples yet. So they have just invented a bounding system just between a men and a women.It was an enviromental reason at that time that they haven't created any legal rights for LGBT people.
Therefore, countries who experience LGBT relations should change their constitution according to this to adapt to the current situation.
Monday, 28 February 2011
Thursday, 24 February 2011
Is marriage necessary ?
Marriage... nice word!
We talked about gay marriage and what marriage is in class these weeks but before talking about marriage in all, I think that the most important question is : Is marriage necessary ?
I have never understood why human being has created something called "Marriage". I can definitely say that I am an anti- marriage person. Ok maybe I can marry in the future, "don't talk big" our parents say, but if I marry I know that it won't be what I want and I'll be marrying just to satisfy my mates wish to marry.
Why do people want to be bounded to a person during their whole life or want to show their love by a piece of paper? Is it really necessary to show how much you love a person to the society?
It is so irrational that it has never fitted into my mind. As people started to evolve, they have complicated life to themselves for no reason. Has anybody heard of Adam and Eve getting married ?
Going to schools, wasting your time and doing a little work in your job, these rituals, procedures have made our life nothing but a tiring period of time. Then because all of this, people try to spend some time on themselves. But actually this should be their first aim.
People go to kindergarden, then primary, then high school, have a flirt, break up with him, go to university, find another guy, break up with him too, finish the university, find a job, earn money, find a mate,think..(sometimes this stage can be avoided).. engage,... and last step.. MARRY, HURRAY!! Level Completed! They have achieved what REGULAR ,as we say, people has to achieve until the rest of his life. I really don't like this settled mould.
I celebrate deeply the people who can really go beyond this scheduled monotonous stereotypic period of time.
We talked about gay marriage and what marriage is in class these weeks but before talking about marriage in all, I think that the most important question is : Is marriage necessary ?
I have never understood why human being has created something called "Marriage". I can definitely say that I am an anti- marriage person. Ok maybe I can marry in the future, "don't talk big" our parents say, but if I marry I know that it won't be what I want and I'll be marrying just to satisfy my mates wish to marry.
Why do people want to be bounded to a person during their whole life or want to show their love by a piece of paper? Is it really necessary to show how much you love a person to the society?
It is so irrational that it has never fitted into my mind. As people started to evolve, they have complicated life to themselves for no reason. Has anybody heard of Adam and Eve getting married ?
Going to schools, wasting your time and doing a little work in your job, these rituals, procedures have made our life nothing but a tiring period of time. Then because all of this, people try to spend some time on themselves. But actually this should be their first aim.
People go to kindergarden, then primary, then high school, have a flirt, break up with him, go to university, find another guy, break up with him too, finish the university, find a job, earn money, find a mate,think..(sometimes this stage can be avoided).. engage,... and last step.. MARRY, HURRAY!! Level Completed! They have achieved what REGULAR ,as we say, people has to achieve until the rest of his life. I really don't like this settled mould.
I celebrate deeply the people who can really go beyond this scheduled monotonous stereotypic period of time.
Wednesday, 16 February 2011
What is marriage?
Marriage is a social alliance between two people who want to be with each other in the rest of their lives. They get engaged and decide if they really want to be with each other for a long time under the same roof, sharing every moment of their day . It is actually a very difficult and dangerous decision to make. It can make your life heaven or sometimes hell if you make any wrong steps before. We have to make careful choices about relying our life on another person because they may not look as they seem after a couple of years ! :)
Wednesday, 12 January 2011
Tuesday, 11 January 2011
How do I need to function so that society perceives me as belonging or not belonging to a specific gender?
Gender constantly surrounds us, whether it be in the clothes we wear, the actions we make, or even in the things we see. There are different ways gender is viewed in society. Men must act a certain way and females must too. That is called a gender assignment. The feeling of not being socially accepted when a man or woman does not follow its gender roles, will decrease their confidence and can lead to problems such as eating disorders, depression, or maybe suicide. In order to fulfill the gender role for women they must be feminine. Men will witness this media and begin to feel that women need to be this way in order to be liked. So actually everything is related with each other.
Gender roles
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWc1e3Nbc2g&feature=related
A very interesting video of gender roles perceived by children at 'very' young age.
It's very impressing that each child gives the same response to all of the questions. The way they have classified and portaited gender at that age shows how society indirectly imposes certain ideas to people.
A very interesting video of gender roles perceived by children at 'very' young age.
It's very impressing that each child gives the same response to all of the questions. The way they have classified and portaited gender at that age shows how society indirectly imposes certain ideas to people.
Saturday, 18 December 2010
Advertising Gender!
Advertisement can really affect a culture's perspective towards gender discrimination. Some details that we don't consider important, are actually affecting our thoughts deeply. For example, using women as pure, naive and weak charactered, men dependent 'creatures', gives generally the scene of men controlling women. Men are also shown as emotionless human beings in the ads. So men get affected from these advertisements. Their actions are being influenced so they behave dominantly against women. On the other side women is shown as a beauty idol: Sexy, attractive, a charming barbie doll. These images that we see on TV, involuntarily change the way we act, the way we show our feelings, the way we interact with the opposite gender, so therefore our cultural perspective of looking to the case of gender discrimination.
Thursday, 18 November 2010
Last week, we watched a video that really touched me and it made me think even after class. It was about the photographer who was trying to take photos of the war, while people were shooting each other wildly. She was there for her job and aiming to be the photographer of the year by taking courageous snapshots. She was there, as she was looking to the war materialistically just thinking of what she was doing at that moment, with pure isolation from the scene and the situation. The main event that occured in the video was, when she was hiding behind a car and was trying to photograph a child who was trying to escape and who was standing close to her with a big gun pointed at her head by a soldier. She waited for a second and looked at the girl. The girl stared at her too. For an instant, she questioned herself: Was this right? What was she doing there in place of trying to rescue her? Where was all the humanitarian feelings she had once? A photo that will perhaps bring her some prestige and a small bronze statue that will stand in her living room, or saving a child's life, giving her a chance to see the sky once again, making her feel the sun with its warmth under her skin and making her taste love... Then we see that the lady wins the award of the best photographer of the year with that photo of the little girl, shot just in the middle from his head. The photographer was unable to defeat her feelings and felt such a regret that she couldn't even present herself on the stage to get the award. Has humanity become so senseless and unemotional that can no longer understand the value of the heartbeat of a creature that is miracleously come to life?
Wednesday, 13 October 2010
Hi,
I would like to write a brief comment about the text we read in class : The Enormous Radio by John Cheever.
I think it was a pretty symbolic text that made the reader not just stay with the plane meanings of the words but also look deeper with their senses. I would like to state two things that I really liked and that attracted my attention.
The first one is the fact that the writer makes a resemblance between the weather conditions, the outside temperature and the cases that Irene, the main female caracter of the text, passes through. He cites " From where Irene sat, she could see the open sky above the East River. There were hundreds of clouds in the sky, as though the south wind had broken the winter into pieces and were blowing it north,.." This passage is a basic demonstration of Irene's previous life and how her life has changed with the arrival of the radio to the house. "The open sky" symbolises the clear, monotonous, problem-free life that Irene has. By saying that the clouds are coming to North by the south wind, the writer shows that Irene's life will be changing fundamentally and she will have a new life which she had never had before.
The second point is that the transition from the old radio to the new one is the exact same situation with the changeover of the old, calm, quiet life and the new life full of excitement and emotion. It also gives point to the fact that they have a primitive relationship, and that they cannot repair it, like the old radio. They have a problem with communication. But at the end, we understand that their real feelings were supressed, and that they weren't really communicating with their real feelings.
I would like to write a brief comment about the text we read in class : The Enormous Radio by John Cheever.
I think it was a pretty symbolic text that made the reader not just stay with the plane meanings of the words but also look deeper with their senses. I would like to state two things that I really liked and that attracted my attention.
The first one is the fact that the writer makes a resemblance between the weather conditions, the outside temperature and the cases that Irene, the main female caracter of the text, passes through. He cites " From where Irene sat, she could see the open sky above the East River. There were hundreds of clouds in the sky, as though the south wind had broken the winter into pieces and were blowing it north,.." This passage is a basic demonstration of Irene's previous life and how her life has changed with the arrival of the radio to the house. "The open sky" symbolises the clear, monotonous, problem-free life that Irene has. By saying that the clouds are coming to North by the south wind, the writer shows that Irene's life will be changing fundamentally and she will have a new life which she had never had before.
The second point is that the transition from the old radio to the new one is the exact same situation with the changeover of the old, calm, quiet life and the new life full of excitement and emotion. It also gives point to the fact that they have a primitive relationship, and that they cannot repair it, like the old radio. They have a problem with communication. But at the end, we understand that their real feelings were supressed, and that they weren't really communicating with their real feelings.
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