The August contest #1 by sduttaskitchen|Significance of Equality for a healthy society!

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What is your perspective about the LGBTQ community? Describe.

LGBTQ community is a rather wide organization, which aims to have as much respect, rights, and dignity as other people. I think that any individual, despite their gender identity or sexual orientation, has the right to live enjoying the freedom, be safe, and follow their authenticity. LGBTQ people add a lot to society by their creativity, strength as well as activism in solving human rights issues.

Although the community experiences attitudes of discrimination and lack of understanding, there is a way forward on this aspect through sensitization, education, and participation. Diversity makes communities stronger and translates into compassion. My thoughts argue in favor of equality, understanding and necessity to listen to the individual experience. People should not be appreciated based on who they love or what terms they can be identified with, but because it is human.

Do you believe we consider ourselves as human first before classifying gender? Your viewpoint!

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I think, we need to perceive ourselves as either human beings or label them differently according to gender. It is based upon the fact that we are all human beings and that we are guided by the concept of empathy, compassion, and respect. Gender is a relevant aspect of personal identity but it should not be the main indicator of the value and the set of rights of a person. Concentrating on the things we all have in common as human beings helps foster unity and helps decline prejudice.

When humanity takes precedence, we develop room where there is understanding as opposed to division. Labels can serve as an explanatory tool as to who we are, but should in no way restrict how we treat each other. The fundamental thing is that we are all human beings who must be entitled to dignity.

In this Generation Alpha and Beta, are women still getting equal respect at home and in society? Share your views!

With Generation Alpha and Beta, the onset has been on gender equality although women continue to encounter setbacks around the home and in the society. Some of these families have empowerment of women and respect towards women whereas there are some cases where there is traditionalism and gender discrimination. Women are breaking all barriers in workplaces, schools, and media, but still they face unequal remunerations, few chances of holding top positions, or discrimination in any ways.

The power of social media has enabled women to have a say, however; it places women in a situation of criticism and pressure. True equality needs constant education, cultural transformation, and systems that help people as awareness is just increasing. Respect is something all women should be accorded everywhere in life and not depending on trends but rather equal dignity and opportunity.

Do you agree that if the main root is not nourished appropriately, then the plant can't grow healthily? How do you glimpse this in human generations?

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Yes, you are right. A plant grows well only with the well nourished root and the human generations cannot survive without strong foundation. The root in the life of human beings can be identified as parentage, early values, love, education and emotional support of the family and society. When children are brought up without any kind of guidance, care or moral stance, they might trail in search of identity, purpose and behavior in adulthood.

We find this in the broken families, bad school systems, neighborhoods without curbs and a majority of young people find their opportunities stunted by bad situations. To feed the root is to invest in a child, about their well-being, about teaching them respect and resilience, and about teaching them compassion. A good start gives mature, competent adults who will create stronger, balanced generations in future.

Is it the dress or our way of glancing at the body that separates upbringing? Your viewpoint!

Clothes are not the thing that matters though, it is the manner in which we look that tends to mimic and project our background. Dressing is a mode of expression and how we evaluate people relying on clothing shows more about our ideologies and attitude. And proper teaching is also to learn to look beyond the face value, that we need to know it is the character not the clothes.

We should not complain that clothes are causing disrespect when what we need is to train our hearts and minds. The real decency is in self-restraint only when it is accompanied by empathy and the manner in which we view others and interact with others. The respect (or lack of it) that we accord people depends on our perception where it is their thought patterns that count rather than what they are wearing.

Thanks for reading my post I'm inviting @josepha, @okere-blessing and @m-do to participate.