A bedroom closet, with shelves and hangers
The Latin word armarium came into our language as a closet . This is the name given to the piece of furniture that is used to store various objects, especially clothes .
Protection and organization
The cabinets have doors that protect their contents . Inside, it is common to have drawers or shelves for organizing items. Many also have bars for hanging hangers .
Depending on the country, the closet is also called closet , closet , wardrobe or showcase . These pieces of furniture can be located in different rooms of the house, and are most often installed in bedrooms when they are used to store clothing. There may also be closets in bathrooms for storing personal hygiene products and in kitchens for storing utensils and food .
In any case, the same closet can be used to store different types of objects , since this is to the taste of each person. In one located in the bedroom, for example, in addition to clothing, a group in which we must take into account those of the current season and those reserved for the others, books, movies, notebooks, products that are not we use at the moment and much more.
Mobile or built-in
It is possible to differentiate between two types of cabinets. There are those that, beyond their weight and dimensions, could be moved (if a person moves, for example), while built-in wardrobes are developed inside the walls, only their doors remaining visible and integrating into the construction structure.
These characteristics also have an impact on their price, in addition to their weight, since mobile cabinets can be much more economical for the simple fact that they do not require the extra work to fix them to the walls . If we add to this the wide variety of do-it-yourself furniture that can be purchased today, with materials of different qualities, the gap becomes even wider.
coming out of the closet
The expression coming out of the closet or coming out of the closet , on the other hand, is used with reference to what a person does when they publicly and voluntarily express their homosexuality . It is understood that an individual who does not wish or cannot recognize his or her sexual orientation in front of others is, in a symbolic sense, hidden or kept in a closet.
In recent years, thanks to different movements that have tried to make visible the difficulties that homosexual people must face in coming out of the closet, we could say that the situation has begun to improve. It is very important to understand that those who hide their sexuality do not do so on a whim but because they truly feel that their environment will not accept them as they are . The idea of " normality " is characterized by heterosexual love, something that overwhelmingly predominates in fiction, so being outside that scheme is very difficult.
Coming out of the closet is revealing one's sexuality
As if social pressures were not heavy enough, there may be an atmosphere of homophobia in the home itself that makes things even more difficult. A teenager whose parents daily express a deep hatred against homosexuals does not have a very favorable outlook for coming out of the closet and showing themselves as they really are. For this reason, it is very common to start by opening up to friends, and leaving the family group for last.
Coming out of the closet, in this way, means stopping hiding or exhibiting what, until then, you did not want to show. It can be stated, on the other hand, that the closet protects the subject from discrimination , stigmatization and other behaviors based on prejudice and intolerance on the part of society .