*emo wrists*

[kelvanis]

Sometimes I wish that people would be more understanding of homosexuality, when they really don't understand it much in the first place.

Just because I'm gay, doesn't make me a degenerate. It doesn't make me a bad person. And it certainly doesn't mean I want to fool around with every guy I come across.

People can be so cruel.. and it hurts...

Comments

[jeffspender]

Urgh. Yeah, a lot of people believe a lot of really messed up things... and it's lame that we have to deal with it, but that's life. Just try not to take it to heart, hon... don't let the jackasses hurt you, they don't deserve to have that kind of control over you. You know who you are.

I dunno, sometimes it helps me to sit back and think about how it is that these people came to believe the things they do... the culture and the social training and the things they've had to go through. It makes you realize that this isn't the only part of them that's been shaped by that training... often they themselves are forced into these rigid social/gender roles, and are socially and emotionally punished whenever they can't keep them up. It's kind of the emotional equivalent of the foot-binding some Asian cultures used to practice on their girls to make their feet smaller and "prettier". When I keep that in my mind, it's easier to brush off the crazy things they say... and often, instead of feeling hurt, I feel sad for them, and it encourages me to try and be the most awesome person I can be. Because... maybe if they see that, it'll just be one more bit of evidence that what they were trained to believe is wrong, and maybe one day they'll figure things out and be able to free themselves from their emotional chains.

Or not, but, hey, at least we can try.

[limberry]

...that's one of the more beautiful things I've read in awhile. :o

Reading old LJ posts ftw. XD