Unmanly Man, Unwomanly Woman

Dad came home an hour ago, he sat down at the sofa, looked at mom and told her that it wasn’t a women who has got undressed and videoed by the Syrian policemen yesterday at the police station, it was a man with women organs.

There was silence in the living room. Mom said: "still, he is a humane being, he was mistreated". Dad told us that the reason why the police men undressed the man is because he was hunting men on the street for business. I asked dad, would the policemen undress a woman hunting for business and take pictures of her naked? No, they won't, for then it would be a question of "honour" not ethics. If it was a question of ethics, this man would not have got undressed, but because he has no "honour" to guard, let's take off his clothes and take photos of him to laugh at.

Is it the confusion about his sex, or our limited understanding to human rights, that triggers them to dehumanize the man?

Isn’t this also discrimination? Against those whom we cannot define?

You know what's sad, I ended up fighting with dad and mom, for to them, it’s not racism, and it's just unethical. We agree it was unethical and inhumane, but why did this happen to him? and would it happen to a manly man and a womanly woman? What they pictured was his organs, and what they laughed about is that he is both/neither a man or a woman, so it is his very case that caused this very inhumane treatment, Hence it is discrimination, it is racism. This was not just an unethical act, this was a racist act. It reflects a way of thinking on people we cannot project our labels on them, they are not part of our system hence we exclude them from our rules and reject their humane rights.

It is not enough to sympathize with victims, if we want to be just with the man, let's regain his rights when admitting the very reason why we dehumanized him in the first place. When we do, we hope he forgives our gay thinking one day.

I think it is a case of sexism as well..