Attention: This blog is not for Professor Ruth Gregory nor Rachel David to grade, but they can read it as long as they choose to. It is for my readers who want to leave their comments. This blog is originally from the first one which has already been posted on time. I just feel the desire to make some corrections that I just discovered by proof reading it.
Dear Ruth and Rachel, my blog was on time and posted the 20th of my before 11.59 p.m.
Below is the on time original blog, please take a look at it
Abner
SEXUALITY IN TODAY'S SOCIETY
'SEXUALITY'
Merriam-Webster Dictionary Describes Sexuality as follows:
"The quality or state of being sexual:"
a:” The condition of having sex"
b: "sexual activity"
c: "The expression of sexual receptivity interest especially when excessive."
In my opinion, the quality of being sexual can be defined as many different aspects when it comes to sexuality. It can be disrobed as caring, kindness, caring for others, and touch in a loving way. The condition of having sex is to be ready and to wait for the right time to come, and to wait for the right person that you know you feel the desire to have it with consensually. The condition of having sex is something that people should not play with, because if you're not careful when it comes to having sex, chances are you may put your life in high risk without being aware of what that can lead to.
For example, you can jeopardize your life by catching diseases if you are doing it in the wrong way with wrong partners, and if a woman who is having sex out of wedlock with different people, she may end up having a hard time raising that child as a single mother.
The expression of sexual receptivity is people who are in the same-sex relationship. Gay and lesbian who are not afraid of showing their sexuality in public and want to be seen and accepted just as well as heterosexual.
When I signed up for, the interdisciplinary class, I did not have any idea that we were actually going to discuss subjects that I am not familiar with. I found it very interesting to learn and to understand different people's background biologically and educationally, especially, the sexuality subject that we have been discussing for the week 8 assignments. We have been learning about heterosexuality, homosexuality, and bi-sexuality. I certainly think it is fun to know about these things in life but at the same time, it can appear to be very uncomfortable for some people to speak in public.
Some people, including me, can feel pretty uncomfortable speaking about sex. Everybody sees sexuality in a different way; maybe it has something to do with the culture that we were raised in. In my Haitian culture, mostly people do not feel open to speak about sex; they think it should be kept private. Especially in respectful family homes, young people can discuss sex with their peers individually. When it comes to discussing sex with parents, it would appear to be a very big step to take. I completely agree with the idea the fact that sex should not be discussed openly. I think it would be very embarrassing, to me, personally as a man to actually bring up the sexual topic as a subject to my mother because I have never been exposed to this type of situation.
In America, people see sex as something normal and feel free to speak about it very openly. They have the freedom to talk about it at any place such as in school, TV, at home, in public etc. Some parents are not afraid to talk to their kids about it, neither some kids, would not have any problems to come to their folks and tell them who they are sleeping with. Sex education is a good way to prevent young girls from getting pregnant at an early age, but not publically. Sex education would also help for young men from making babies with different young women at a very young age as well. In that case, it is a great way to get counseling for stuff like sex in order to avoid these tragedies. I am not speaking about young people specifically but everybody in general.
For an example, I am using the pop singer from American Idol (Adam Lambert). Mr. Lambert was a guest of an American music award show in 2009. When he was called to perform on stage, he started singing very professionally. In the middle of the song, somehow he got carried away or something, and could not help himself. Mr. Lambert allegedly started grabbing himself, doing some dirty dancing, on top of that he actually went to one of his background male dancers, and he aggressively grabbed him towards himself and placed a passionate lasting sexual French kiss onto his lips while millions viewers were watching worldwide. Not to mention, he insulted the American audience with their under aged kids whom he was performing to. After the show, people all over the world, including American people had some unpleasant comments to make on Adam's bad behavior's sexual act. Some of his fans came out with some blog comments stating that he was being stereotyped while others thought he was singled out for exposing himself on stage. He himself said to the American people, that it was a way of showing his sexuality.
The following week after the show, he was seen in numerous TV shows, such as CNN, The View, Ellen DeGeneres, Oprah, Joy Behar you name it he was actually all over the place being interviewed by the media. He was severely being interrogated with some tough questions demanding an apology from him for his behavior to the American people that thought his on stage homosexual behavior was inappropriate for a night time TV show. A lot of families and their kids were in the audience and at home watching the show that night. When He was told that what he did was wrong that he owed the viewers an apology, he replied with a negative attitude by saying, "I am not these kids' babysitter, and it is not my job to monitor what they are watching." In other words I think he meant, as long there would be a show like that music award, it is the parents' job to tell their kids to go outside and play with friends or go to their room and shut the door, and not to come out until the show is over.
This is what I have to say as someone who was watching the show that night, and I was very disgusted by Mr. Lambert's behavior. I have no problem with Adam being gay or bi-sexual. Besides, I could care less about his sexuality. The show was obviously a public show; family members paid their money to go see it, to have a great time with their friends, and kids. Even his parents were at home watching the show that night and I am sure they were not too pleased with his sexual action. He should have procured some type of respect and not to insult others with such behavior, especially when he was a guest and not on his own private show. Madonna did the same thing several years ago with Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera, these types of behaviors cannot continue to be made in today’s world, if they are claiming to be role models for our children. What kind of lessons are they sending out there for our kids in this society as role models? I can understand that nobody can control who they fall in love with, and neither have any control his/her sexuality. We do not need to provoke people with sexuality when we know real well that there would be folks out there that would be feeling bad with these impoverished insults.
Speaking about Madonna, this is a woman who has been in show business for quite some time,and called to be a role model for young females. Over the years during her career, there have been lots of questions regarding her sexuality by the media. She makes it really obvious publicly for people to acknowledge what kind of a woman she actually is by her provocative behavior.
Ms. Madonna was performing in one of the American Grammy musical shows. During the performance, she invited Christina Aguilera and Britney Spears to perform along with her. As they started the performance, right in the middle of it, she turned to the right side of Britney and gave her a huge passionate kiss then she turned to the left on Christina's side and gave her a long passionate kiss. This is a woman who supposedly claimed to be a great example to those two young ladies, and she is old enough to be their mother.
Janet Jackson And Justin Timberlake were performing at the 2004 Super bowl by the end of the performance, Justin ripped Janet’s bra…Wow what a wardrobe malfunction for Ms. Jackson nasty boy!!! Her breast was all over the place showing the public how sexy she was just to promote her album which was in title Damita Jo. Can somebody please tell me how the things that these people are doing in the public eyes are a good way of showing morals to our American families? Is that how we choose to set great examples to our children in America? Where are the moralities and wisdom? Whatever happened to the good examples that were supposed to come from these experienced adults to influence by our younger generation?
The coordination of the American culture fascinates me, such as, its policy, democracy and freedom. It seems like people sometimes misunderstand the whole concept of the system. I love America; I would never dare think to choose another country over the United States of America, because America gives me the freedom, the opportunity, and the ability to speak freely and to do anything I want to do in life. But that does not mean I have to go overboard by forgetting its rules and regulations that need to be followed, and think that I can do anything I want to do by disrespecting others with my bad behavior.
Just because we are Americans, and have the authority of freedom to do anything we want to do, and speak freely against our government does not mean we can go down the street, and take our clothes off, and prove to the society which gender we are sexually. If we have the power to do such poor things in order to be recognized which gender we actually are sexually,then why can't we take our weapons and go into some neighborhoods and start killing people? Why can't we get together with our peers and go to the banks and start robbing? Why can't we take our vehicles to the express-way and start driving on the opposite side of the free way and causing problems for the city? The reason we cannot make these poor, horrible choices is because there are laws against it. Besides, we know its the wrong thing to do, and if we do, we would put ourselves in jeopardy with the law and be punished severely for our bad actions, because we are not free to do whatever we want.
"OUT OF THE CLOSET, BUT NOT OUT OF MIDDLE SCHOOL"
"Out of the closet" is an essay that is written by Libby Copeland,which we read in class as one of our class assignments. In that essay, on page (451) David Crossman who is a young, brilliant, 13 year-old boy who was tired of living a double life style. On the last day of his 7th grade, he decided to gather together some of his friends who are gay to put a rally on. He said "I am sick of pretending," then, he announced into a cheap loudspeaker, "I am gay." His school’s principal was afraid that his rally was going to cause lots of distractions for others, so he asked him to move his makeshift stage and rainbow flags away from the school grounds. Dave Crossman went beyond boundries by disobeying the school's rules by having the rally. That rally was a big disturbance for others, such as staff members and other innocent students. Even Dave's mother did not approve of the trouble her son was causing. His mother ended up transferring him to a private school where he would not have the opportunity to put rallies on about his sexuality.
I strongly do not support Dave Crossman for his agenda which I found very inappropriate. He was far too young to find out whether he was gay or straight. He should have waited until he turned 18 years of age as an adult to have this type of disturbing propaganda. Plus, he caused lots of problems for other children who were attending that school. Since he decided to conduct the rally, he should have done it on his private time and in other private areas. Not in the institution where he was getting his education from, and caused problems for the rest of his class-mates and staff members.
Posted by: Abner T. Richet
Interdisciplinary Class
Professors Ruth Gregory and Rachel David
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