(admins please move this post freely where it suits better)
Once again, hatred and discrimination makes me feel ashamed of my own Country. Though I know the problem is a world wide issue, I cant help but to think society here, as in Latin America in general, seems to keep growing backwards...
Yesterday a 32 year old peruvian cd was beaten to death as she was returning home after a night out en femme. No she wasnt robbed. No she was not raped nor harassed in any way (confirmed by official autopsy). it was pure classic old fashion hate crime. Hatred against a person expressing what he/she is. And it's not the first time neither it will be the last.
I was just thinking about making a mid-lenght post about male chauvinism and coping with retrograde society in general, when this news hit me, and I cant help but asking myself (and the rest of you for that matter) the same old questions over and over again-
How can we even think of coming out safely and accepting who we are, when theres so much hate and reject outside? are we doomed to dwell in our closets forever, at the risk of losing everything and everyone we love, even our own lives?
How can one overcome such things and be brave, and keep doing what makes us happy, are we living an illusion of peace time, or, rather, in fact, still at war? is our society evolving towards freedom of expresion or otherwise, into some distopic opressive future?
Its sad. so sad...