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Name: Jeremy
Location: California, United States
Birthday: 8/11/1984
Gender: Male
Interests: I'm interested in...well...life. I'm 20 now and going to DeVry, Fremont. Second year student..I should be a 3rd year, but I took a few semesters off. I love computers and video games, and of course my wife, desiree
Occupation: Student
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AIM:  UtopianElanVital
Member Since:
2/4/2003
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| You may look at the title and already have opinions on what I'm about
to say, or wonder what the hell I'm going to talk about...which is
fine, I'm not here to argue my point of view or argue with anyone else
on there's, I just want to state what I have been thinking all day.
See, this morning in class, we read an article about Gay and Lesbians
being parents. It showed both sides, and then it showed the
"truth". What I mean by that is it showed statistics.
I'll start with the argument that Gay or Lesbian parents are not as fit
as a "standard family". First off, what is the standard
family? Now days, only 1 in 4 family's are what is considered the
standard (1 FATHER, 1 MOTHER, and 1 or more CHILDREN). Not only
that, but more and more children are being put into foster home after
foster home because there's not enough couples out there to take all of
them in.
You could say that a child growing up with two dad's will most likely
go through a life of tease from his piers, and you're probably
right! But does that make that child less likely to
succeed? What about the common idea of if a boy is brought up
with two dad's, or a girl is brought up with two mom's, that's going to
make them more likely to be Homosexual. Those are two good
arguments, and questions most people have, especially homophobic's., but
to them there not questions, there facts. Facts that were never
proved of course.
The truth is, study's show that a child within a homosexual family is as
likely to succeed as one in a heterosexual family. The child may
grow up even more aware of gender issues and be able to look past a lot
of the bias many children are still growing up with today (such as a
woman has to clean and cook, a man has to work and bring home the
money).
But if you're religious, then you can throw that last paragraph out the
door, because even if you read the statistics, religion usually is more
powerful then facts (OK no comment about that last sentence please, I'm
not trying to degrade religion in anyway)
Also, another good "positive" is wouldn't it be better that a child
belong to a loving family rather then being in and out of foster homes
where they usually get treated worse and worse as the older they
get? Not only are homosexual parents just as good (or bad for
that matter) as heterosexual parents, but they are generally more
willing to take in the children with problems then a family who wants
the "standard".
So with all this said, why am I writing about it? It's something
that really never crossed my mind too much before today because I don't
have a problem with it. But on the way home, I was surprised to
notice a bumper sticker that said "Marriage = Male+Female" made by the
700 club (it's a religious show if you don't know) and made me think
how can people ignore facts so blindly or be so bias when they don't
know the truths? It really kind of angers me that in this day and
age, we still have such problems as sexism, racism, and such bad
homophobia, because we learned years ago that all men and women were
created equally.
And although I said I'm not going to argue back to what you guys think,
I'd really really like to hear what you think. Please post and
let me know. Also, do you think this kind of thing will get
better over time? or do you think homophobia among family's will
always be very bad?
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| HAPPY THANKSGIVING!! a few hours late, but hey, who's really looking at that?? hehe!
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| *Good Week*
Well, it's been a really good week. Me and
Desiree haven't been arguing, not that we argue a lot, it's just once
in a while, we do..and it's been a while, so that's a good thing
=) Also, I started my routine yesterday...it's going pretty well,
I feel good, even though I didn't workout much, my body feels a little
better....I think i coulda pushed myself more because I'm not even soar
today.
Anyway, I like this time off from everything, well
everything except life...Did you know in some countries, companies take
3 weeks off, basically the WHOLE country, just to take a
vacation? They say it's because the suiside rate is so high in
that area that they need it...whatever! I mean I think that's
great, if you can get away with it, but how cheap is that?? We
don't have that in america, and we have all the biggest companies, well
a lot of them anyway...
OK, I'm done ranting...I really like posting on my
xanga a lot more now, now that I have the time I guess. OK BYE
BYE NOW!!
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| GOOD MORNING! IT'S GOOD TO BE ALIVE!
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| *The End*
As I walked out of Electronic Arts yesterday, I
realized I was a changed person. I realized it wasn't just what I
learned, but also the people I'd met, and the experiences we
shared. I realized I really made a couple good friends, 3 in
particular.
Right before I walked out of the door for the last
time, I took a second and made a promise to myself. I said, "The
next time I walk through these doors as a profesional, I'll be doing it
for a much better job, a much better life". And I really plan on
keeping this promise, and the promise I made to my boss.
"Jeremy," he said as he shook my hand, "Graduate..." That was the
last thing he said.
So now, it's over. I'm unemployed. Done
with EA. Time to move on...It will be interesting to see where
life goes from here...
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