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[textualdeviance]

Why do people always bitch about how their "free speech" or whatever rights are being trampled on when they're not allowed to hurt other people or are reprimanded for doing so?

Where the hell do people get the idea that they're entitled to be rude, mean and nasty to others, and if the object of their rudeness complains, they're just "whining"?

Jesus. The amount of self-centered little pricks who think everyone else is beneath them never ceases to amaze me. Since when is it a bad thing to be respectful and compassionate toward others?

I blame Bush. He made it legitimate to beat up other people just because he didn't like how they looked.

Which reminds me...



The next time I have to listen to someone who has never experienced discrimination tell me I'm just being paranoid for recognizing that discrimination exists, I do believe I will go postal.

Clue, darling: Unless you know what it feels like to realize that there are millions of people in the world who want to see you in jail, abused or even dead simply because of how you look, the language you speak, where your ancestors were born or the people you fall in love with, STFU. And yes, this also goes for privileged white girls who grew up in a post-feminist era and have never had to worry about not being able to get a job, an apartment, credit or an education because they have a cunt.

It's NOT all in our heads, thanks. There are examples of hatred, discrimination and violence every. single. day. against people I share traits with, and people who share traits with people I love. Just because you stick your fingers in your ears and try to pretend those things don't exist doesn't make them go away.

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[little-aims.livejournal.com]

Amen to that chicka. And I'm agnostic.

I know exactly what you're talking about. My current 'favourite' (the one that pisses me off the most right now) is the uneployment one. People who say "why don't they just get a job?" and roll their eyes when people make a comment about having no money because of their lack of employment. Just because YOU were lucky enough to grow up in a privileged home with a decent education and/or a supportive family/family who didn't have any mental/social issues, doesn't mean everyone else did. Some people can't 'just get a job'. Because A) there's not always jobs available that pay worth a damn, B) there's more often than not certain essential skills/specifications that one needs in order to apply for certain jobs that one may not have and C) Even if both A and B were no problem, sometimes people who issues than run deeper than lack of education or working skills. Sometimes people are (shock horror) depressed, and cannot find the courage to get up and look for a job. Or, they have kids who they can't just up and leave during the day in order to feed them. That's my favourite right there. If a parent (mother or father) doesn't have a job so that they can stay at home to take care of their kids, they're deemed to be neglecting their kids by not having enough for them to eat at home... but if said parent HAS a job in order to make money to put food on the table and a roof over their heads, they are deemed to be neglecting their kids by not being there to pick them up from school. It's so nice that you can please everyone all the time, especially when you work so fscking hard to look after your family.

Ugh. I'm going off on tangents again... anyway, I feel your anger.

[little-aims.livejournal.com]

I think I might join that community by the way... go read my comment (on the thread where she said that marriage was for men and women only). I believe you'll appreciate the humour in my comment. My Mum read it and laughed heartily. And it's true. Jennifer Garner is sex.

[little-aims.livejournal.com]

Whoops! Wrong LJ I posted this in... meant for your uppityliberal LJ...

[thefirstalicat.livejournal.com]

I encountered an example just this morning; while standing in line to pick up freshly made bagels, a couple with a one-year-old child were right in front of me, and the little girl was playing with/pulling on the refrigerator doors (and could easily have hurt herself doing so). I happened to need to get to the lox in the fridge and waited for them to move the girl away so I could do so. I was not saying anything, just waiting, when suddenly the father turns around, sees me there and starts *lecturing* me about how I "should" be more patient and "should" focus on the "important things in life," etc. etc. And I'd not said a word to the man, not sighed impatiently, not done anything at all! Grrrr.....

[van.livejournal.com]

Hi! I just wanted to say that I added this journal to my friends list. I identify with your plight a lot myself and I have a lot of the same interests as you. I've heard about you for years via your fandom journal but I was never compelled to add that journal. As my passion for LotR died during the big wankages of 2002-2003 I've not active pursued that venue of fandom but I still find that people who like LotR (and Lost, etc.) are more like the people I like, even if I don't actively persue the fandom. To that end I'm not overly interested in fandomy things anymore but I do like to meet the people who like them, if that makes sense? Anyway, you're friends with several people I'm pretty good friends with and that gives me just another indication that you're someone worth friending. You don't have to friend me back but if you'd like to, feel free. :)

As for your Ranty McRantrant . . . I couldn't have said it better myself. It's nice to know that people out there exist who aren't as blinded and ignorant as the rest of the world seems to be. Sigh.

[textualdeviance.livejournal.com]

Hey! Sorry it took me a while to respond. And yeah, that makes perfect sense. I'm sort of drifting away from the fandom community (as an entity) myself. :)

[van.livejournal.com]

No problem at all. I half didn't expect you to reply at all, so it's nice you did. I figured you'd be busy and want to run me through a screening or something before friending me back, haha. Which is sadly, really, all things considered. :/ Fandom is fucking funny of course, because half the time it's the people and not the fandom that makes me run cowering from it -- but of course, it's also the people that make it so wonderful, with their fics and such. I suppose overall it's just easier to pick and choose people from fandoms who aren't too wanky to befriend-- that way you can avoid the 16 million teenbooper squeeling "Orlichan" fangrrls, etc. :)

Anyway, I look forward to reading your journal and you've sort of planted a seed in my head to like, create my own, mmmm, private-like journal. Not that my journal is overtly fandom-based or anything but I definitely have people on my friendslist who don't need to know about me questioning my sexual identity or my love life or all of that -- and I'm rather too lazy to mess with filters. :)