be yourself goddammit
So now that I've gone through my website and deleted any images of me smoking cigarettes I best commence to deleting any images of ME in case any of my "impressionable 15-year-old" fans decide my thin thighs are license to start over-dieting, over-exercising, or otherwise harming themselves in want to be me. Best delete any and all images of my dreadlocks in case any conservative children decide to risk disownment by adopting my oh-so-radical-left-winger 'do. Best re-enroll in college and rack up another several thousand dollars in loans and interest payments in case anyone decides to do like I did and drop out of college when emotions and debts threatened to overwhelm. Best be sure my life meets every non-threatening super-PC standard there is in case some moron whose life it is not my job to be responsible for decides to be me, or more accurately some lost and forgotten and completely misconstrued teenaged version of me.
I have never labeled myself perfect -- I have only strived to be a thoughtful, concientious, and aware citizen of the planet. My life is just as trial and error as everyone else's and to expect me to be some kind of blueprint who is allowed to have no faults is absolutely ridiculous, and to discredit every single good thing I do or say because one or two or three years ago I did something contradictory is totally unfair, and whoever thinks this way needs to stop. You have issues with things I did way back when? Then you have issues.
My journal: safe haven become soapbox become babysitter?
Fuck that!