Osheen Varouzh
There have been moments in which you’ve felt powerless. Emotions in which, if ever written into words, would even have Richard Dawkins drop a tear of hopelessness. There are times in which you feel as if everything surrounding you dictates the choices you make, as if you’re floating downstream on a river.
It’s one thing having been thrown into this world without any say in it, but fearing every decision you make is a pathology of influences that you essentially had no control of can be debilitating.
I feel that way most of the time. The fear that I’m just a byproduct of various centrifugal forces shrouds me every day. I’ve accepted a simple weightlessness, gently floating along the only real measure in the world—time—waiting for my chance at selfmartyrdom.
However, at times I’m greatly encouraged to meditate turbulence to my flow and to deliberately antagonize anyone that is remotely irritating. Antagonisms that can’t be justified by any sense except mine, whether it’s out of spite or sheer delusion. For I believe that no one’s presupposition is relevant, especially mine. Not only is opinion overwhelmingly embedded in perception, subjectivity, and slant, it is in most cases banal, unwarranted, and commonplace.
Everyone is entitled to their opinion, though, unless they should be so obstinate as to indoctrinate or affect another one’s life with it. Because convictions, in the general sense, are primarily bastions of ignorance. And I haven’t felt as helpless with the colossal arson of blockheads as I have in the case of marriage in the recent weeks. As the youth of my generation matures, we’ve realized the resilient quality of our upbringings. There are certain characteristics we share that are directly attributable to our parents. From our blind contempt for Jews (who are arguably the most circumstantially similar to Armenians) and supremacy over other minorities, to our unjustifiable and despicable contempt for any woman who isn’t a virgin under the age of 30, we must thank our parents for keeping our eyes away from the caustic reality. Fathers who get the ‘devil’ out of their systems by having an inter marital affair and whose spouses excuse their negligence of the other by choosing to stay together for the sake of the children. Armenians may have lower divorce rates, but I’m convinced their children come out with a greater potential for insanity.
Despite all this perfection that Armenians have strived to accumulate, and asthe progress is still in good resolve, there is one key issue holding us back as a prevailingsociety. No, it’s not the priest who’s been pumping your children since Sardarabad, nor is it the juggernaut sized disparity in rights between men and women in Armenian culture. Women having the right to hear dirty jokes is a long lost cause.
The key problem that had to be most importantly dealt with was curing the disease of homosexuality. Because chances are homosexuals are the cause of the symptoms of your family’s dementia. Above all the obscene problems in our families, the key 'homosexual question’ must be dealt with first. Nevermind the fact that you fantasize being isolated in a room with one of your attractive cousins. Those devilish impulses are not yours. Homosexuals are the reason you stared at your sister in her bra a moment too long after she walked out of the shower. Gays are the reason some of you plan to marry someone so much younger than you that you can easily avoid financial wedlock by just signing a few guardianship papers. And most ironically, you have a hidden fetish for sodomy.
So amidst all the problems and confusion people have with marriage, be it in a religious, spiritual, or state entity, we reserved the right to remove the right of choice from others as a cure to our disorders. Now thousands of people in California won’t be able to have the right to choose to marry whoever they please while the rest of us continue to propagate the Armenian tradition of a post-medieval feudal marriage system. Most importantly, thousands of people have lost the right to a legal financial marriage status that so many of us endlessly abuse and manipulate. We’ll continue to abuse and defecate the right in which they only wish to have. At least the disease is contained.
If you want to keep your traditional view of marriage, keep it to yourself. No one has any right to decide on the rights of others. Instead of fearing a bad influence of what seemsto be an obscure union to you, and if you are so sagacious enough to even view it as a problem, do your best to convince yourself that there are a plethora of problems associated with a traditional marriage that need to be dealt with first.
So for someone being so adamant on the right of opinion, I really do wish less people had a tongue. Your right to decide on this issue merely jeopardizes someone’s free will of choice. For those who choose to induce inequality in our society, I commend you. It must be very demanding to muster a mind that can be so abrasively feeble. And who knows, maybe the chokehold on gay marriage will force your future children to seek refuge in another state sooner. Problem contained.
3 comments:
For someone who preaches entitlement to one's own opinions (as you mentioned), you sure do talk yourself into a hurricane of banal, commonplace (which is a redundancy, by the way, but you're too busy impressing us with your use of SAT words to even care) bullshit. Your "blind contempt" for the "blockheads" that prefer to marry virgins as opposed to whores, by which I don't mean to imply that any girl who is not a virgin is a whore, but I merely use the extreme in order to prove my point, is as hypocritical as their contempt is for your loving embrace of homosexuality. I don't care whether you're gay or straight, whether you'll marry a non-virgin guy or a virgin girl or whatever floats your little rusty existentialist boat in your universe of teenage angst, but if you are constantly satirizing your own people to the point of ridicule like you are some sort of voice of reason in blind world, then you’re missing your own point. Practice what you preach. You feel that there’s nothing wrong with same-sex marriage, that’s fine…I’m not sending you to be hanged for believing that. But just because my definition of marriage differs from yours doesn’t deserve an insulting diatribe depicting my people as ignorant apes who fear any sort of change. What I’m trying to say, I guess, is honestly, and I mean pure, unadulterated, untainted, “unsodomized,” virgin honesty, shut the fuck up.
Anonymous obviously missed the main point of the article. It wasn't about contempt for the race as a whole as much as for some of your opinions that you so adamantly believe and want to force onto others. Gay marriage should is none of your business. You don't like it, fine. That's your opinion, which everyone should respect. Go live your straight life like I will. But it is not my place nor yours, nor the government's, to tell gay people how they can or cannot live their lives.
Maybe, ABC, you should read a bit more into Varouzh's other pieces and recognize this as merely an extension of his overall contempt for the Armenian people he so vehemently despises.
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