i'm the truth to your lies

[miss_universe93]

Hiii. First things first: I want to thank everyone who commented on my last post (trustingno1, jessamika, after2am, sweetrina, and babyxteeth) for everything you said, as well as anyone else who read it. I think I am quickly becoming one of those annoying LJers who always says their flist is amazing, because seriously, you guys are amazing. I knew that you guys would have some insight on this

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[kyttenfae]

Hi there, team-mate and newbie here! <3

Thanks for the warning re: Glee. I love(d) Tina and also stuttered (and still do when nervous) and missed that ep but am a spoiler whore so clicked the cut anyway. Oy. That's really too bad that they went there! ;;

[miss_universe93]

Hi! I was going to give you a welcome in this entry but I totally forgot!

I think a lot of people don't really care all that much about the stutter thing, but as a stutterer it irked me. I completely get that a lot of people don't care and Artie was disappointed when he found out but I really don't like that they went there. :/ (And yet I still have my glee icon!)

[babyxteeth]

I like that she came clean about it, as I always appreciate it when people tell the truth (even if the truth hurts). I hate IRL but also in shows like neighbours and home and away they make huge storylines out of a character lying or dodging the truth and I'm always yelling at the tv and being all "just bloody well tell them straight out to save you both a whole lot of pain you know it's just gonna get worse the longer you leave it" and a lot of sighing and hmph!-img from me. AH! Just remembered, it was actually on Glee wasnt it, his wife isnt actually pregnant, its like a phantom one, and she's all "it's a boy!!" thus making things wayyyyy more complicated. Honestly, who cbf?

But yeah, faking stuff just aint cool. I hated speeches myself, but cant fathom actually lying and pretending to everyone for yearsss?!?!!!

[miss_universe93]

I do like that she came clean about it, I do - what I don't like is the writers wanted Tina to have a secret and chose a lie about a speech impediment to be that secret. It was an episode about accepting people in wheelchairs and with disabilities, but then they turn around and paint a stutter as something you should disregard or as being easy to fake. Maybe in their little Glee universe stutters don't matter to anyone, but IRL stutters can and do affect people in a very real way. A couple of weeks ago in class I stuttered when answering a question and people laughed at me, they laughed equally at a lady with a bad stutter in a video we watched. I hate that Glee is in it's own way adding to that kind of behaviour, painting stutters as something trivial and disrespecting something that affects a lot of people. It's not called an "impediment" for fun, it's because stutters stop you from talking normally, confidently, feeling like everyone else - and for a lot of those people (especially me) singing and music is a great outlet. And yet

[babyxteeth]

I can't believe people are still so uneducated and immature and laugh at people with stutters. I find it completely sad. So many people with stutters suffer horrible riducle and it almost makes me want to cry for them.

Also I have noticed Glee does have a lot of "women are totally nuts" characters. Like the girl who ate the chilli. LOL!
But seriously.....eww. It has deducted from the music and gone all weird and divorcey and idk....

ILY ROO CHARRR!!!