Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Fun With Homophobics

Today me and my friend Bree went to the beach... We decided to do a little experiment... We tested the beach goers acceptance of open homosexuality. Our first subjects were two six year old children, as we walked past them, held hands, and said hi. They responded to us normally as if they didn't care that we were two girls holding hands then asked us to join them in building their sand castle. Our next subjects were a teenage couple maybe a year or two older than us. We continued to just simply hold hands, the couple approached us and started talking, after a little while the guy asked us if we were in a relationship together, when we replied no he looked embarrassed and apologized for assuming (which we all thought was funny). Our last subjects were four older people sitting under an umbrella. We walked past them still holding hands and then sat down in the sand to observe their reactions from a distance. The two women were the first to react, they stared and pointed and talked, then they proceeded to tell the men and the surrounding sun bathers. We were never approached or spoken to by this group, only pointed to and stared at. Our observations from this little experiment were that the older our subjects were the less accepting they were and the quicker to react they were. I'm not sure what to do with this information but here it is. lol.