Welcome to the real world

Posted on 10th Feb at 10:43 AM

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Today at school some classmates made a dissertation about professional secrecy, and as part of it, we watched a movie.

Well, the movie they picked was Priest. The plot is the following: a Catholic priest in Liverpool, in the 70's-80's, that happens to be gay. For us, the important part was that a young girl confessed that her father was sexualy abusing her, and he didn't say a thing to the police or her mom because he had to keep it secret. But that just played a part on the movie.

What seemed to caught everyone's attention was the fact that the priest was homosexual, and it was horrible, disgusting and outrageous that they showed them having sex and kissing. No genitals, anuses or fluids, just the kind of sex scene you see in mainstream movies, hands holding, naked backs, orgasm faces, but nothing pornographic.

Well, the kind of thing I had to hear was 'I can't stand this', 'gross', 'this is against nature', 'stop the movie', 'I don't come here to see this', etc, to the point where some people left the class.

In Spain, gay marriage is legal since 2005, and you would think people are more open-minded. Or at least, less offensive, you don't know if someone in the class is gay, if someone's kid is, or if I have gay friends that i love and appreciate.

You spend so much time online, where everyone seems to be alright with this, everyone is progressive and try to be cool with all kinds of sexuality, and where so many girls find men kissing each other to be cute or sexy, that I forget how the average human feels. Most of them are not even religious, it was not that. They were grossed out by homosexuality,simple as that, and had no problem expressing their distate.

I don't even know how to react, how to look in the eye to around 100 classmates and work partners. And i'm okay with people expressing un-PC or 'difficult' opinions (with freedom of speech, there's only one way, imo, and you have to deal with hearing things you don't like), but they were just ignorant, backwards and insulting.

And it seems that's the real word, Silvia.

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