I wore purple as a gesture. It's not an activist stand for me, it's honoring those who have taken their own lives because the world, at large, chooses not to accept them. And I'm totally cool with that. Its more or less why I wore purple too.
I don't think you're quite right about the term privilege and what it assumes/implies, but there's not much need to get into that here, really. Unless you want to, lol.
It happens and it happens everywhere it happens a lot and suicide from bullying, hell, bullying in general, just that, needs to end. That's how I feel about the Day of Purple/It Gets Better/Spirit Day. It should be a call to action. Definitely.
to address a point you made, how do you know people don't feel it every time it happens? (Only quoted that, but replying to whole paragraph).
Okay, first off, I never meant to imply that no one feels for them. And I definitely never meant to imply (and don't know quite where I may have done so, if you could point that out...?) that people don't feel for those who aren't all in the "privileged" categories. My intent was to point out at the broad, general erasure/ignoring/ignorance of those people. Not by individuals, but by society/the media in general.
Secondly, obviously I don't know that. But to answer that question: we don't always know. Things happen, and we don't hear about it. Its like the tree falling in the forest - if no one knows it fell, who will mourn its falling? Depressing, I know. But the bit where I think I said what you're replying to, I was (IIRC) actually paraphrasing what someone was saying on their Tumblr... and pointing out that not everyone, even in areas you might expect it to happen, does get outraged at incidents like this. Certainly didn't intend to say that no one ever does. Almost the opposite, in fact.
You know what else I just noticed? That when I'm tired and read something that I react emotionally to, verbal vomit just happens. Sorry about that. I certainly didn't mean for that to come out as...harshly as it did. :)
*cackles* Possibly best! I'm so used to that particular forum (at least the general... feel of it, even if I don't post for months) that I got warned on another forum for saying something that wouldn't have made the debating forum blink! Well. No. They would have blinked and shot back, not warned.
And I'm totally cool with that. Its more or less why I wore purple too.
I don't think you're quite right about the term privilege and what it assumes/implies, but there's not much need to get into that here, really. Unless you want to, lol.
It happens and it happens everywhere it happens a lot and suicide from bullying, hell, bullying in general, just that, needs to end. That's how I feel about the Day of Purple/It Gets Better/Spirit Day. It should be a call to action.
Definitely.
to address a point you made, how do you know people don't feel it every time it happens? (Only quoted that, but replying to whole paragraph).
Okay, first off, I never meant to imply that no one feels for them. And I definitely never meant to imply (and don't know quite where I may have done so, if you could point that out...?) that people don't feel for those who aren't all in the "privileged" categories. My intent was to point out at the broad, general erasure/ignoring/ignorance of those people. Not by individuals, but by society/the media in general.
Secondly, obviously I don't know that. But to answer that question: we don't always know. Things happen, and we don't hear about it. Its like the tree falling in the forest - if no one knows it fell, who will mourn its falling? Depressing, I know. But the bit where I think I said what you're replying to, I was (IIRC) actually paraphrasing what someone was saying on their Tumblr... and pointing out that not everyone, even in areas you might expect it to happen, does get outraged at incidents like this. Certainly didn't intend to say that no one ever does. Almost the opposite, in fact.
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