Comments | amand_r: This guy says what I identify with.

amand_r

This guy says what I identify with.

Oct 19, 2010 19:38

Comments 17

elainasaunt October 20 2010, 00:51:45 UTC

Thank you.

amand_r October 20 2010, 00:53:03 UTC

Yeah, there's a whole group of these people out there, and they get shit too. His wasn't as bad, and he admitted that, as others' experiences, but it's quite common. And it's horrible.

elainasaunt October 20 2010, 01:02:45 UTC

I got it, too, well into middle school, except back in those days "gay" wasn't the juvenile insult du jour. Still, all this light on bullying brings up plenty of shit for me.

amand_r October 20 2010, 01:06:14 UTC

Yeah, it's ridiculous that it happens when teenagers are already going through enough issues with their own sexuality and what they want/are etc, to add teasing for any reason in this are as if any of this is negative (being gay, bi, trans etc) is ridic.

opium_and_tea October 20 2010, 01:01:08 UTC

Good stuff! Have you seen the original Joel Burns video? He's a councilman about 30 mins away from where I live.

amand_r October 20 2010, 01:06:54 UTC

i HAVE NOT. I shall go look.

opium_and_tea October 20 2010, 01:25:46 UTC

BE PREPARED. For srs. I'm not a crier by any stretch of the imagination, but it had me a bit teary.

It's really fucking disgusting what's happening to kids these days, even worse when parents are the cause. It's like, what the fuck happened to unconditional love? Kids have enough shit to go through without worrying that their parents don't love them because they're gay, or whatever other thing they think is "wrong" with them. And the way children and teenagers treat each other today? Makes me scared to have any.

paragraphs October 20 2010, 21:41:12 UTC

Fort Worth, Texas, my hometown. What a beautiful thing that was, and is. :)

sthayashi October 20 2010, 02:45:33 UTC

Go him and everyone else at the It Gets Better project.

'Course despite years of teachers and parents telling me not to fight back, I never ended up learning that lesson.

amand_r October 20 2010, 13:56:20 UTC

Haahahah I am from the "stare daggers and imagine bloody revenge" camp, myself.

arsenicjade October 21 2010, 04:47:37 UTC

That's kind of amazing.

aster_laevis October 21 2010, 06:06:25 UTC

I am so, so sad that you found that amazing - and not because of anything to do with you.

arsenicjade October 21 2010, 06:11:22 UTC

No, that's fair. I feel the same way about outsider's opinions about Judaism sometimes.

amand_r October 21 2010, 13:09:55 UTC

Awwwww.

aster_laevis October 21 2010, 06:02:45 UTC

[Like]
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Sorry. Too much Facebook.

amand_r October 21 2010, 13:10:05 UTC