You know what pisses me off (amongst the many things that do)? There's a LOT of people, esp on writer blogs and such, kvetching about the "meaning" of this and the "intent" and what people should or shouldn't be doing in regards to the day and omg did you ask permission and yada yada yada. People who are not even related to the young men (one of whom is from my home town) and people who have no idea what it means to be bullied, to lose someone to violence (even self inflicted)... In short, there's a LOT of self righteous bullshit and gods it pisses me off.
And then there are those of us that have lost friends to suicide over being bullied about being gay. Those of us that have offered shelter to gay youth whose parents have given them the door for coming out, who have bought school clothes for those same kids because despite finding shelter, they had no monetary support beyond the minimum wage jobs they could work only about 10-15 hours per week because of school, which had to be put towards food.
Yes, there is a lot of pontificating, but among that there are people genuinely saddened and concerned about this.
If this gets the message through to just a few kids that are having difficulty that it DOES get better and they WILL find people who love them no matter what, then I say pontificate away.
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Yes, there is a lot of pontificating, but among that there are people genuinely saddened and concerned about this.
If this gets the message through to just a few kids that are having difficulty that it DOES get better and they WILL find people who love them no matter what, then I say pontificate away.
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