Blog 6

A present day issue that applies to the theme of silence/ignoring people is coming out in the lgbtq community. There are several people who come out to their parents/friends and are just ignored. For example, one of my friends came out to her parents and they literally acted as if she didn't and they kept trying to hook her up with boys that they went to church with. I think that situations like that should never be handled the way they handled it, it is never okay to ignore your child's sexuality and purposely try to hook them up with a gender that they aren't comfortable being with. 

This theme was also shown in the new show on Fox called "Empire", the father ignored his sons sexuality and even arranged for him to be married to cover up the fact that he was gay. He stated that he didn't have any daughters so he refused to allow his son to be a "sissy".

Another thing that connects to this theme is the fact that sometimes parents rely on their eldest child to talk to their other children when there's a problem. For example, whenever my father gets into it with my younger sister he always comes to me expecting me to talk to her about the problem. Instead of asking me to explain things to her he should do it because even though I'm her older sister she doesn't listen to me the way she'd listen to him if he were the one talking to her about the situation at hand.