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Thu, May 29, 2008 : Last updated 15:43 hours
 
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Right, or just self-righteous?

By Girly Blurry
Special to Daily Xpress
Published on May 29, 2008

What's wrong with homosexuality? What's wrong with seeing a psychiatrist?

What's wrong with dating a farang? What's wrong with marrying a younger man? What's wrong with speaking clumsily in English with a foreign accent? And what's wrong with getting a divorce?

What's wrong with the many other things that friends, family, society and officialdom declare to be inappropriate, incorrect, immoral, improper or just plain sinful?

As long as you don't kill, lie, cheat, use drugs, sleep around, verbally assault or physically attack somebody, nothing is wrong!

Who is to say what is good and what is bad, or what is acceptable and what is not? It's simply a matter of how we're conditioned, tainted with prejudice, framed and hypnotised by our family upbringing, education and working environment.

Some people don't even realise that they have biases and prejudices. I'm one of them.

I admit that I've given a transvestite and a gay couple "the look". I admit I thought an "Isaan-looking" girl with a male farang was a hooker. I admit that I tried to talk my female friend out of a relationship with a man nine years younger than she was.

Who's really wrong here? Me or them?

 
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