Lesbian Identity Problems
Do you know what percent of lesbians live in the United States? It is approximately 1.7 percent over the total population of 316.1 million, who identify themselves as being a lesbian. These are the people who known as homosexual women because they have same sex attraction. Also for this reason they were not easily accepted by their parents and families because they think it’s a felony and it’s against their religious. So lesbians are the one who face many problems in their daily life, which relate to their personal identity and social rights. I relate to this, because I had a friend named “Anne” who is a lesbian. She faces many difficulties in her life only because she has a different sexual identity. Comparing this book, “Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal,” to my friend Anne, who faced many problems, which includes: religious issues, and parent’s disappointment, but Anne doesn’t have to change gender role unlike Jeanette Winterson. …show more content…
She is being treated very differently and disrespectfully from her own parents and relatives because they were thinking that she is going against god by having a homosexual attraction, so she will not be accepted by their god to go to heaven with this identity after she dies. They think this way because they were very religious people just like Mrs. Winterson, who was also a religious person. Mrs. Winterson had a problem with the concept of Jeanette loving Janey, which is why she states that Jeanette will go to hell for committing this sin, “Mrs. Winterson was quiet for a long time and then she started to cry. ‘It’s a sin. You’ll be in Hell. Soft bodies all the way to Hell”(P. 113). According to Christianity if you are not straight, then you go to hell and burn there. Therefore, in this quote Mrs. Winterson was crying and regretting Jeanette’s decision about loving
Do you know what percent of lesbians live in the United States? It is approximately 1.7 percent over the total population of 316.1 million, who identify themselves as being a lesbian. These are the people who known as homosexual women because they have same sex attraction. Also for this reason they were not easily accepted by their parents and families because they think it’s a felony and it’s against their religious. So lesbians are the one who face many problems in their daily life, which relate to their personal identity and social rights. I relate to this, because I had a friend named “Anne” who is a lesbian. She faces many difficulties in her life only because she has a different sexual identity. Comparing this book, “Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal,” to my friend Anne, who faced many problems, which includes: religious issues, and parent’s disappointment, but Anne doesn’t have to change gender role unlike Jeanette Winterson. …show more content…
She is being treated very differently and disrespectfully from her own parents and relatives because they were thinking that she is going against god by having a homosexual attraction, so she will not be accepted by their god to go to heaven with this identity after she dies. They think this way because they were very religious people just like Mrs. Winterson, who was also a religious person. Mrs. Winterson had a problem with the concept of Jeanette loving Janey, which is why she states that Jeanette will go to hell for committing this sin, “Mrs. Winterson was quiet for a long time and then she started to cry. ‘It’s a sin. You’ll be in Hell. Soft bodies all the way to Hell”(P. 113). According to Christianity if you are not straight, then you go to hell and burn there. Therefore, in this quote Mrs. Winterson was crying and regretting Jeanette’s decision about loving