teenmanchester
October 29th, 2012, 09:08 PM
Hey guys, not sure whether to put this here but think it's the most appropriate due to the subject matter. Well this is more aimed at people who live in the UK who have more chance of seeing this programme which revolves around Stacey Dooley meeting different men in the USA and their attitudes towards gay conversion therapy.
Personally i think that the only good thing that any therapy does is bring out feelings and allows yourself to be open with close friends and family. Apart from that i don't really think that it would help 'make you straight' as i don't think that anything can make that happen and that all this sort of therapy does is solidify in people's heads that heterosexuality is good and that you have to be masculine to be straight. I think like many of us who are on here, we already have heard, read and seen information about gay conversion and the effect it has on people's lives. Lots of these stories are horrible to find and at least for me make me feel very angry at the thought that people old and especially young are being put through something like this. The fact that the documentary was shown on a pretty well received channel like BBC 3 made it more eye opening and made me look at the issue more deeply.
Skylar one of the focus characters is probably the main character that i felt the most for. A seemingly shy 17 yr old (like me), his story is that he feels attraction to men and that he doesn't want to be that way. For most of the programme i felt a bit off by his story but he seemed like he was strong enough to handle it. During the time that Stacey was at his home, i felt so much sympathy as his parents basically say that they wouldn't be happy with his dad calling homosexuals perverted and obviously saying the cliched 'adam and eve not adam and steve' phrase (rolls eyes). Whats worse is that he had previously cut himself and tried to commit suicide, had to hide his thoughts to everyone but a close few people and that he even had a girlfriend who also didn't know! By the end of his segment Stacey seemed generally sorry that this young man who has so much pressure on his shoulder has to deal with this without really seeming that he is 100% wanting it. I myself wanted to just hug him and tell him its ok, so that was probably the thing that really did it for me during the documentary.
The reason i am writing about this is because it's a very contemporary issue (although i think that it really shouldn't be!) and that i want to know whether some people saw it, what there views and opinions are on the different people and their thoughts and if anybody has been put through this situation, voluntarily or forced? Thanks for reading and i advise anyone who can access this documentary who doesn't know much about this issue to watch it as it is definitely something that needs to be dealt with.
Personally i think that the only good thing that any therapy does is bring out feelings and allows yourself to be open with close friends and family. Apart from that i don't really think that it would help 'make you straight' as i don't think that anything can make that happen and that all this sort of therapy does is solidify in people's heads that heterosexuality is good and that you have to be masculine to be straight. I think like many of us who are on here, we already have heard, read and seen information about gay conversion and the effect it has on people's lives. Lots of these stories are horrible to find and at least for me make me feel very angry at the thought that people old and especially young are being put through something like this. The fact that the documentary was shown on a pretty well received channel like BBC 3 made it more eye opening and made me look at the issue more deeply.
Skylar one of the focus characters is probably the main character that i felt the most for. A seemingly shy 17 yr old (like me), his story is that he feels attraction to men and that he doesn't want to be that way. For most of the programme i felt a bit off by his story but he seemed like he was strong enough to handle it. During the time that Stacey was at his home, i felt so much sympathy as his parents basically say that they wouldn't be happy with his dad calling homosexuals perverted and obviously saying the cliched 'adam and eve not adam and steve' phrase (rolls eyes). Whats worse is that he had previously cut himself and tried to commit suicide, had to hide his thoughts to everyone but a close few people and that he even had a girlfriend who also didn't know! By the end of his segment Stacey seemed generally sorry that this young man who has so much pressure on his shoulder has to deal with this without really seeming that he is 100% wanting it. I myself wanted to just hug him and tell him its ok, so that was probably the thing that really did it for me during the documentary.
The reason i am writing about this is because it's a very contemporary issue (although i think that it really shouldn't be!) and that i want to know whether some people saw it, what there views and opinions are on the different people and their thoughts and if anybody has been put through this situation, voluntarily or forced? Thanks for reading and i advise anyone who can access this documentary who doesn't know much about this issue to watch it as it is definitely something that needs to be dealt with.