Politics
Being out in Turlington today made me realize just how far I've traveled since the days of petty arguments about t-shirts and homecoming float themes or decorations. Election time has come around once more on the UF campus and this time I decided to go out and support the Unite party. I'm not going to go into their entire platform, if you'd like to check it out go to www.uniteuf.com. But today I went out to Turlington to help campaign and hand out flyers and talk to people. In talking to students I got an idea of what they wanted to change about campus and also got reamed out by a transsexual. That's right, I got yelled at. Why? Because I'm an insensitive bitch apparently. Maybe I am just extremely naive, but I honestly did not know that the word "transvestite" was offensive to a transsexual. I know the difference now, no thanks to the person who yelled at me, he just found it necessary to tell me what a horrible person I am and make sure everyone around me knew. My point here is this, if someone makes an mistake and says something offensive, or possibly taboo like that, please educate them and do not threaten to kick their ass. Please show a little bit of maturity. You do not help your community at all by biting off the heads of friends. Save your attacks for those who would try to bring you down and silence you. I am not one of them. That is why I want to be in politics, why I love it, because I want to help people get their voices heard.
But of course saying any of this now means absolutely nothing, because at the moment I was about to break down in tears. How am I going to make it out there in the world beyond college if stupid little things like this can hurt me so much?
But of course saying any of this now means absolutely nothing, because at the moment I was about to break down in tears. How am I going to make it out there in the world beyond college if stupid little things like this can hurt me so much?