Awareness

[matrixmann]

Do information campaigns really fulfill their purpose?
Isn't it more important what people do from day to day - what their mindset is that determines their acting everyday?
And do these campaigns have any influence at all on how people think about a certain matter, about a certain group of people?
Did any campaign, for example, ever change any peoples' thinking towards gays? Or make it clear to them "you know, that's like somebody glued tits on your chest, made you be able to get babies, put you in a woman's dress and told you 'from this day on, you live as Maria for all days'"?
Did anything ever convince anyone "this is a story that can happen next door to me, so I better be no asshole 'cause I still need to live in one and the same apartment building with my neighbors"?

Comments

[matrixmann]

There are still people in the West of course which don't think it's right.
But partly I think the whole thing itself is responsible for it.
As long as you keep coming up with people which appear unrealistic to the most, people which behave extraordinarily and dress extraordinarily, and as long that is like "the dress code" on every gay pride, I don't think there will be much change in it.
It's the thing, all other people feel like this cannot happen next door to them. They live with the image in their heads "gays you recognize by their habits - because all of them behave different from you and they like to wear childish costumes", you see that represented the most in media coverage and in everything that says anything about "gay culture".
It's like a drop in the bucket then to start information campaigns with normal people that could live next door. Barely someone is going to believe it that gays can be the normal worker too.
The "gay culture" scene doesn't seem to be much of a helper to this too. Because on their parades and whenever figures from it try to do public relations work, they don't come around the corner as a normal person either. They rather come up as the typical figures dressed in some ridiculous costume which you can meet on these rallies.
So, which effect do information campaigns achieve then? Zero. Nothing.
Because the impression like "gays are childish people behaving strangely, wear ridiculous costumes and expect me to take them serious even though I can't by usual standards" is just what remains more omnipresent about that topic.
It then is no miracle that people feel disgusted by that.
With childish people you cannot run an industrialized economy. You're getting nowhere with them aboard.

[ribakov.livejournal.com]

Хорошо, что остались здравомыслящие..
а то реально складывается впечатление что Европа сходит с ума.

[matrixmann]

Under that aspect, "gay culture" emerging like a culture of some people being childish and ridiculous, I can really understand that Eastern Europe and Russia rebel against it.
I don't know how it became this way, but regarding the rainbow flag and what is linked to it independently of the circumstance of being gay itself, it seems to me like something one can get more happy with as a regular citizen.
You are gay or transgender, but you're no part of that circus. It's got nothing to do with both things as a subject, it's something that others try to sell you as "gay culture" and "the way gays are naturally".