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