In Korea body contact between men isn't seen as weird or invasive like it is here, though. To them that's just seen as friendly, there's nothing really homoerotic about it, at least not to them.
Not in all cases but it is on a very different level than in America. if you are suspected of being gay in Korea, you don't get bullied, more so, just people avoid you and talk about you behind your back.
if you are suspected of being gay in Korea, you don't get bullied, more so, just people avoid you and talk about you behind your back.
Er, what? Bullying is a problem in Korea like it is everywhere else, and gay bullying is just as bad if not more so.
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Gay, transgender Korean students discriminated against at school. A study has found that half of sexual-minority students feel that they are discriminated against at school because of their sexual identities.
The survey of 221 sexual-minority teenagers under the age of 20, conducted online from July 31st to August 12th, found that 120, or 54.3%, answered “serious” or “very serious” to the question “what is the level of discrimination you experience at school due to your sexual preference (homosexual, etc.) or sexual identity (transgender, etc)?” Just eight students, or 3.6%, said “none”.
Regarding the types of harassment the sexual-minority teenagers experience at school, 136, or 61.5%, said “degrading language and bias from students for being a sexual minority”, while another 88, or 39.8%, said “degrading language and bias from teachers for being a sexual minority”. Sixty-five, or 29.4%, of the students said they had been “outed” at school against their wishes. Twelve, or 5.4%, of the students reported being harassed or groped against their will.
So I decided to watch WGM for Hong Jong Hyun and he's paired with Yura from Girl's Day. I kinda regret not investing my time into learning more about Girl's Day now. The way they reacted when Hong Jong Hyun entered the room . They're so funny. Yura's personality is just so likable too, I've definitely been missing out. I like her.
And because of that let me check out GD's discography.
Ahem...
Plus they are amazing live
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In Korea body contact between men isn't seen as weird or invasive like it is here, though. To them that's just seen as friendly, there's nothing really homoerotic about it, at least not to them.
High School...all kids around the world act stupid. Im talking more so real world aka University and the workfield.
But the majority of bullying takes place in High School and younger? Why, thus, would I assume you were talking about "real world aka University and the workfield" in your original post? (Not like bullying doesn't also take place in Universities and workplace environments, it's just a lot less frequent). Furthermore bullying =/= "kids acting stupid". In fact it's people's attitude that "kids will be kids" that enables serious bullying to continue. Your post, on multiple levels, does not make sense.
Sulli's mood in the Pink Tape era was effected by her wrong doings. She/everyone needs to get over that and let her be. I'm not gonna say she has the right to be sulking all the time, but yeah.
But the majority of bullying takes place in High School and younger? Why, thus, would I assume you were talking about "real world aka University and the workfield" in your original post? (Not like bullying doesn't also take place in Universities and workplace environments, it's just a lot less frequent). Furthermore bullying =/= "kids acting stupid". In fact it's people's attitude that "kids will be kids" that enables serious bullying to continue. Your post, on multiple levels, does not make sense.
Let me put it this way. I'm not excusing kids from bullying, however, when you put a bunch of insecure people together, the chicken effect happens and the pecking order occurs. (On a chicken farm if two chickens get into a fight and one is winning the rest of the chickens join the one that is winning to take down the other chicken). Thats how kids are. Most are insecure. So i don't consider that oh i'm being bullied. More so i'm talking about Korean adult gays. Korean Gays do not flaunt their sexuality like westerners do. They don't go around screaming I'm gay nor do they want to. In Korea, you don't have to wonder about hate attacks for being gay. I would be happy to walk down the street and not have to worry about possible be attack by some macho dude trying to attack me for being homosexual. The only problem with Korea and being gay is their strict conservative Christian values and those Christians won't attack you but certainly avoid you in all ways possible.
Korean Gays do not flaunt their sexuality like westerners do.
Hm, let's see, maybe because doing so could cause them severe social ostracism, not to mention that many gay and lesbian persons are disowned by their families? Maybe because in South Korea you can still legally be fired from your job for being gay? What kind of unbelievable statement. Obviously they don't "flaunt" their sexuality like western gays, because they literally can't. They don't have the same legal or social protections, which is why so many people are in the closet there.
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They don't go around screaming I'm gay nor do they want to
qmpierre, the voicebox of every gay person in Korea
. They're so funny. Yura's personality is just so likable too, I've definitely been missing out. I like her.
Why, thus, would I assume you were talking about "real world aka University and the workfield" in your original post? (Not like bullying doesn't also take place in Universities and workplace environments, it's just a lot less frequent). Furthermore bullying =/= "kids acting stupid". In fact it's people's attitude that "kids will be kids" that enables serious bullying to continue. Your post, on multiple levels, does not make sense.
Obviously they don't "flaunt" their sexuality like western gays, because they literally can't. They don't have the same legal or social protections, which is why so many people are in the closet there.