Everyone is gay

Annetta 2021-12-27 08:01:23

Dedicated to the confused Lu Nianjiang Lu Nianjiang complained to

me, a story that I don't really care about. All in all, it is obvious that she did the right thing, so why should people despise it, BlahBlahBlah. As a tsundere, cynical, but inferior glass heart, I understand how she feels.

People with low self-esteem—no, the attributive "inferiority" should be removed—somehow they will be coerced by the tyranny of the majority like “normal”.

I work in a private enterprise and I can’t pretend to be a high-cultural and high-quality talent in the new century (well, I am, ashamed), facing a group of people who have not graduated from junior high school and are forty years old and can’t speak Mandarin, so I will quarrel with you. Uncle who got up, communication is a bit difficult.

I remember that in the first week of work, I wrote a checklist that elaborated on the help, materials, future plans and self-positioning I needed, and passed it to the vice president (my master) for review. He turned two pages and replied: "I will start to help with the big assembly tomorrow, you are useless." I was really stunned!

Therefore, in the next two years, facing this group of middle-aged uncles who are arrogant and dare not to act arrogantly, forever picking up sesame seeds and melons, and emphasizing stance and not interest, I will carry all kinds of things on my back. The infamy for not doing business properly has finally completed the sorting out of the company's entire workflow and suggestions for improvement. And the work plan that I was supposed to implement two years ago is only slowly starting now.

I do not deny that I do not have much experience but are academically high-minded, unwilling to participate too much in grassroots affairs, and idealize the shortcomings of all work. These uncles have worked hard for more than 20 years and have accumulated countless valuable experience to become executives with extremely strong practical operational capabilities. There is no need to listen to me, such a small talk on paper. It's just that, six months of multi-party coordination is very easy to complete, why should I delay my precious youth for two years? It is a problem that I have realized two years ago, why should I choose this kind of traumatic reform method? The funny thing is that every time the vice president gets drunk, he will tell me with an unselfish face, "If you have any dissatisfaction and requirements at work, please let me know. I will try my best to cooperate with you and don't keep doing it alone." I said it a long time ago!

After two years and three months, I finally understand that the problem is not "why not", but "why". When stripping away the superiority of the "cultural man" and really knowing oneself, this kind of entanglement becomes hypocritical and weak.

Because this is how the world works.

Just like homosexuality. Obviously, LGSM is to help these workers who are nothing but nothing when they are away from the coal mine. Everyone in the committee says "I have no problem with what they are, none of us do". Why is Cliff, an old gay guy (Bill Nighy pouted so cute, I really like him, I like every role he plays) When shaking hands with Mark, he must show contempt, why did he raise thousands of pounds and be voted out by ignorant miners.

I am out of anger, but this is how the world works.

Jonathan was the second person to be diagnosed with AIDS in the UK, and Mark eventually died of this gay nightmare (except for poverty-stricken areas such as Africa, gay men have the highest AIDS transmission rate). Joe's brother also viciously called AIDS "Anal Injected Death Sentence". If society can recognize and do a good job of corresponding education, these lives that should be blooming like summer flowers can produce more beautiful fruits.

Yes, that's how the world works.

Just like the children around me who should have become painters, musicians, and writers, facing the oppression of the "children of other people" in the hearts of their parents, they eventually become machines desperate for tickets, cars, and houses like me. Joe's mother said: "It's such a terrible life. It's lonely, is that what you want? Hiding from people from work, for everyone, keeping secrets?" This is not just a description of gay life, it's every "abnormal" Problems that all people have to face. An artist who has lived a life like Van Gogh, a singer who is drifting north with a guitar on his back, a nerd who is immersed in words, a pianist who is locked in the basement, in fact, the "Madonna" who selflessly helps others (some "Madonnas" work very hard People who are helping others, such as Chen Lan, some are just keyboard man, such as me). They also know that the road is long, but before the censure, whether tolerance to ask "Is this what you want?"

No. Because this is how the world works.

It’s difficult to put our own thoughts into other people’s minds. We will do what Mark said, "When somebody calls you a name, you take it and you own it." Then, find our gay community and meet Mark to Joe The same people who taught us "You are not leaving, you are running".

The ending of the movie looks very good. Joe accepted his identity, "No hiding, no running, no apologies" and left his family. The miners' union finally fulfilled its promise, "Shoulder to shoulder, hand in hand" to help gay parade and protect the legal rights of gays. But I don't know how many people like Mark Ashton fell like fashion at the age of 26, just like the "abnormal" dreams that we have longed for, have been suppressed for a long time, or have forgotten.

Therefore, each of us is gay.

As for Lu Nianjiang, in the face of doubts and disdain, just smile and pretend to be numb. Don't be afraid or angry, as long as you know who you are, always keep that innocent heart. Anyway, I'm already out of my head.

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  • Ismael 2022-04-22 07:01:40

    Where there is struggle, there is hope, and where there is hope, there is a future

  • Montana 2022-04-20 09:02:03

    Touching story, celebrate difference & embrace solidarity but the director is weak and a bit loose in the middle. It shows the life of different regions and different classes in the UK in the 1980s. The Welsh countryside is depressing... the streets are like Ireland. Why does everything sound like an impure Scottish sound? ? Mo Niang's performance is very moving~

Pride quotes

  • Jason: [to Joe] AIDS - Anally Injected Death Sentence.

  • Gary: [after seeing CARL outside the union hall talking to JONATHAN] Oy! What the hell was that about?

    Kevin: He's gonna give him dance lessons.

    Gary: You'll start prancing about like that?

    Carl: Listen, if you want to spend the rest of your life standing in a bar wishing you could talk to Debbie Thomas, that's all right with me. I'm gonna be a woman magnet!