Why does the world suck so much?
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snowdarkredI think...I think that sometimes I forget how stupid people are.
It's just: Between my friends, who are pretty much 'whatever makes you happy' about 97% of things, and all the wonderful people on LJ, I just I don't think about how fucking moronic and ignorant the average person is.
I hate people. I just, I do. They're fucking crazy and stupid and blind.
Okay, so we did a little bit on gender roles and gender identity and so on, and my teacher's painful hetronormative views aside - she's not being directly hateful, just oblivious - we watched a clip from the Today Show, about the boy who dressed up as Daphne for Halloween.
And during discussion, someone said, I shit you not, "It'd be okay for a boy to dress in girly stuff at home, but I wouldn't allow them to go out looking like that."
There was some other stuff too, like how boys wanting to dress as girls would 'grow out of it' and so on, and I desperately wanted to shout about how it didn't fucking matter whether it was a brief period or a permenent desire or what the fuck ever. If the kid wants to wear a fucking dress, s/he can wear a fucking dress.
I'm just so used to fandom being generally awesome about stuff like this. I mean, yeah, people put their foot in it, but here, on LJ and FF and DA and tumblr and all of our other ways to connect and talk and learn from each other, it's so much easier.
Y'all are wonderful, wonderful people, and I love you all. Don't ever leave me. ;_;
It does make me wonder, though, something that I think about from time to time: What would my life be like if I'd never found fandom? I got into fandom fairly young - I was about eleven/twelve-ish - and I just, y'know, grew up with it. Fandom is how I finally figured out why I have never in my life wanted to have sexual contact with anyone. I just kept waiting and waiting and waiting for that whole 'right person' bullshit, and you know what? That person is most likely not going to appear in my life because they don't exist. I mean, if I ever meet someone and all I can think is 'Jesus Christ, I want to bang them so hard' than fine. Okay. I'm cool with that. But at the moment, I don't think it's ever going to happen.
Without fandom, I can't think of a way that I would discover anything real about asexuality. I mean, there are two - two - identified asexuals on television, and one of them is Sheldon, for God's sake. There would be no way for me to find someone in the media and go, Huh, well that fits. And I don't even want to know what my psych class would say if I were to stand up and say, Hey, I'm asexual. I mean, it'd probably be something like 'Oh, you're broken; you'll get over it' or something. D:
I... came out? as an asexual in fandom and the reaction was 'Meh. Awesome for you. Now when are you going to finish that fucking story you owe us!' It's awesome.
So yeah. I love you guys. And I am so fucking glad I found fandom because you make my life so much better. Thank the gods people like you exist.
It's just: Between my friends, who are pretty much 'whatever makes you happy' about 97% of things, and all the wonderful people on LJ, I just I don't think about how fucking moronic and ignorant the average person is.
I hate people. I just, I do. They're fucking crazy and stupid and blind.
Okay, so we did a little bit on gender roles and gender identity and so on, and my teacher's painful hetronormative views aside - she's not being directly hateful, just oblivious - we watched a clip from the Today Show, about the boy who dressed up as Daphne for Halloween.
And during discussion, someone said, I shit you not, "It'd be okay for a boy to dress in girly stuff at home, but I wouldn't allow them to go out looking like that."
There was some other stuff too, like how boys wanting to dress as girls would 'grow out of it' and so on, and I desperately wanted to shout about how it didn't fucking matter whether it was a brief period or a permenent desire or what the fuck ever. If the kid wants to wear a fucking dress, s/he can wear a fucking dress.
I'm just so used to fandom being generally awesome about stuff like this. I mean, yeah, people put their foot in it, but here, on LJ and FF and DA and tumblr and all of our other ways to connect and talk and learn from each other, it's so much easier.
Y'all are wonderful, wonderful people, and I love you all. Don't ever leave me. ;_;
It does make me wonder, though, something that I think about from time to time: What would my life be like if I'd never found fandom? I got into fandom fairly young - I was about eleven/twelve-ish - and I just, y'know, grew up with it. Fandom is how I finally figured out why I have never in my life wanted to have sexual contact with anyone. I just kept waiting and waiting and waiting for that whole 'right person' bullshit, and you know what? That person is most likely not going to appear in my life because they don't exist. I mean, if I ever meet someone and all I can think is 'Jesus Christ, I want to bang them so hard' than fine. Okay. I'm cool with that. But at the moment, I don't think it's ever going to happen.
Without fandom, I can't think of a way that I would discover anything real about asexuality. I mean, there are two - two - identified asexuals on television, and one of them is Sheldon, for God's sake. There would be no way for me to find someone in the media and go, Huh, well that fits. And I don't even want to know what my psych class would say if I were to stand up and say, Hey, I'm asexual. I mean, it'd probably be something like 'Oh, you're broken; you'll get over it' or something. D:
I... came out? as an asexual in fandom and the reaction was 'Meh. Awesome for you. Now when are you going to finish that fucking story you owe us!' It's awesome.
So yeah. I love you guys. And I am so fucking glad I found fandom because you make my life so much better. Thank the gods people like you exist.
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Date: 2010-11-08 05:38 pm (UTC)Aw I didn't click the links (I'm messing with downloads). I didn't realize it was a little boy. It is so cool that they're just letting their little guys be what they need/want to be.
Well yeah...people are totally stupid.
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Date: 2010-11-08 05:42 pm (UTC)And ugh, next class I get to find out how badly I buggered by last test. D: OH JOY~
What are you downloading now? It seems like you are forever downloading, downloading, downloading. (Also, I just typed that entire sentence while looking away. I feel oddly proud of myself. :3 Wow, I am lame.)
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Date: 2010-11-08 05:56 pm (UTC)Christmas music. Sometimes I am...not always...you just happen to catch me when I am. This is the first time I have in a while.
LOL I did a whole paragraph without looking once and freaked out my momo. She hates that I can type and not look.
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Date: 2010-11-08 06:03 pm (UTC)XD Christmas music? Traditional or modern?
I taught myself how to to type when I started writing regularly. It's just sort of happened. :3 How I can take diction pretty damn fast if I don't think about the mechanics of what I'm doing. Does that make sense? It's all muscle memory. :3
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Date: 2010-11-08 06:11 pm (UTC)A lot of everything? I actually gave up on them and am just doing the last of the links I've opened because I'm getting a headache from looking at the little tiny print and trying to differentiate between the titles and artists. Seriously like 600 songs per page.
I understand completely. To graduate my high school (on a college track) you had to be able to type 120 words per minute without looking. And yes it's all muscle memory. I'm not as fast as I used to be but I'm still pretty good.