Blog of the Week: Amelia
here are many blogs that I particularly enjoy from Huffington Post but none quite as much as the blogger known simply as Amelia. I’ve been following her for a long time, pretty much ever since I read her first post regarding her young son who is (much like myself) kind of in love with Blaine from Glee. It was adorable and sweet and the way in which she handled the situation to me, was what I thought every parent should strive for. Every post she writes continues to inspire and amaze. (Having a mother who has always been supportive of me, has been a great blessing, and it’s unfortunate that there are not more mothers like my own and Amelia).
It saddens me the amount of hate she manages to get, how evil people can be, and it’s hard not to be disgusted by humanity on the whole because of it. No not everyone is like this, and the tide is turning in favor of the LGBT community, and it has for a while, but often times I can’t help but wonder if Darwin had seen the internet and what has become of it, if he would not come to the conclusion as I have, that de-evolution may in fact be a thing. There have always been bigots sure, but it seems the megaphone for which they were able to be heard has been impossibly amplified by blogs, podcasts, Youtube and the like. Worse still, it’s even managed to make people who are otherwise not necessarily intolerant or complete and utter dickheads, to become one anyway. Instant communication and information comes at an ugly price.
Reading blogs like this however, that continue in spite of the hate. That refuse to be silenced, and refuse to live in fear of those who are to afraid of anyone who is different from them or who challenges their view of what it means to be a man, that gives me hope. People who are willing to let their kids be themselves, no matter what that means. People who know that it is more important to love your child than listen to the haters who want to tell you you’re wrong, these people are my heroes. To all the mothers out there, who fight for your child no matter what, who will love your child, and defend your child’s right to be them, thank you. You inspire me that humanity isn’t as lost as it sometimes feels.
