Straight Edge Rant.
So here it is. I'm not against Straight Edge. I rather like the idea of people making and keeping promises to theirselves concerning things like alcohol, smoking, and sex. I think that's great. I have friends who were into those things, and now they are straight edge. I also know people who claimed straight edge and then decided to drink or smoke or have sex before marriage. I say, do what ya wanna do. What I can't stand are two types of people.
A. The people who claim straight edge but really drink and smoke and have sex. They "claim" straight edge because it's become more of a socially present scene where they can listen to a certain type of music and feel "hard core" just to fit in with the crowd. If you're straight edge, and you're going to claim it, at least ATTEMPT to stick by the rules. Don't brag about the "group" your in and the rules you are supposed to live by when in all reality, you live by none of those convictions. It gives all of Straight Edge a bad name and that's not how it should be.
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B. The people who think they are so much better than anyone who is not straight edge. I drink... And yup, I have sex. I don't think that makes me a bad person. I think I'm a rather good person in actuality. I don't do drugs, I never have. I don't smoke. I don't do anything to "fit it" with any certain group. I'm not saying it's so great to drink and have sex and everyone should do it. It just happens to be something I have in my life. It doesn't make me better or worse because I do, the same way it doesn't make you better or worse because you don't. I hate when I see people, who claim XXX, trying to tell people they have are so much better and aren't "leaning on crutches" because they don't do some of the things I do. Well, guess what. Does that make it okay for you to be a scummy and rotten person? Does being straight edge make you so wonderful that when you stomp all over people, beat people up for NO REASON, and treat women like dirt, have no effect on who you are? Straight Edge, or claiming it, makes all that go away? I hate that. I don't "lean" on alcohol or sex. They are not my crutches. I could live without them. But for me, it's fine. They are not crutches in my life, I don't use them that way. So back off of me, trying to tell me you're better simply because you DON'T do these things and I do. Don't judge me for what I do, you don't know me that well. And stop judging the rest of the world. Just because someone had a Bacardi at a friendly get together doesn't make them a drunk. And just because someone is having sex with the one person they know they love, it doesn't make them a slut. Get over yourselves.
All in all I, again, like the idea of Straight Edge. That's great. If you are Straight Edge for the right reasons. I'm just tired of seeing people treat other people like dirt because of the people in reasons A and B. And what makes me sad is I actually know these people. If I didn't know Kevin, I doubt I'd look very highly on Straight Edge at all. But I see what it means to him and how he obeys the "rules" and why he does it. And I think that's so great for him and he gives XXX a good name. There are just other people who just SUCK.
A. The people who claim straight edge but really drink and smoke and have sex. They "claim" straight edge because it's become more of a socially present scene where they can listen to a certain type of music and feel "hard core" just to fit in with the crowd. If you're straight edge, and you're going to claim it, at least ATTEMPT to stick by the rules. Don't brag about the "group" your in and the rules you are supposed to live by when in all reality, you live by none of those convictions. It gives all of Straight Edge a bad name and that's not how it should be.
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B. The people who think they are so much better than anyone who is not straight edge. I drink... And yup, I have sex. I don't think that makes me a bad person. I think I'm a rather good person in actuality. I don't do drugs, I never have. I don't smoke. I don't do anything to "fit it" with any certain group. I'm not saying it's so great to drink and have sex and everyone should do it. It just happens to be something I have in my life. It doesn't make me better or worse because I do, the same way it doesn't make you better or worse because you don't. I hate when I see people, who claim XXX, trying to tell people they have are so much better and aren't "leaning on crutches" because they don't do some of the things I do. Well, guess what. Does that make it okay for you to be a scummy and rotten person? Does being straight edge make you so wonderful that when you stomp all over people, beat people up for NO REASON, and treat women like dirt, have no effect on who you are? Straight Edge, or claiming it, makes all that go away? I hate that. I don't "lean" on alcohol or sex. They are not my crutches. I could live without them. But for me, it's fine. They are not crutches in my life, I don't use them that way. So back off of me, trying to tell me you're better simply because you DON'T do these things and I do. Don't judge me for what I do, you don't know me that well. And stop judging the rest of the world. Just because someone had a Bacardi at a friendly get together doesn't make them a drunk. And just because someone is having sex with the one person they know they love, it doesn't make them a slut. Get over yourselves.
All in all I, again, like the idea of Straight Edge. That's great. If you are Straight Edge for the right reasons. I'm just tired of seeing people treat other people like dirt because of the people in reasons A and B. And what makes me sad is I actually know these people. If I didn't know Kevin, I doubt I'd look very highly on Straight Edge at all. But I see what it means to him and how he obeys the "rules" and why he does it. And I think that's so great for him and he gives XXX a good name. There are just other people who just SUCK.