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[sparda219]

I just now finished watching a documentary on HIV and AIDS and gay culture called The Gift. I seldom use this journal for actually writing down my thoughts, but I will not be able to focus on something else until I write this out. This post is not fun, or lighthearted and it involves me being very nasty. The truth is sharp-edged and hateful and I

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[pixxers]

Have you noticed that it's always the morons who seem to garner all the attention for specific communities? It's like each culture gets ten minutes in the spotlight to make the world see that they are people - just like everyone else - and it's always the crazies that hog the airtime and set the cause back a hundred paces.

*sigh* Things could be so simple. Humans are such tools.

[mattie]

Nah. All humans aren't disgusting. Some are, but not all.

It's so easy to picture yourself wasting away a la some Victorian vision of consumption when you've never experienced the reality of long-term illness, the indignities of hospitalization and losing your bodily functions one by one. The reality of dying of AIDS isn't romantic at all.

I am caregiver to a woman who had toxic shock syndrome. Besides the necrotizing fasciitis eating huge holes into her arm and leg, the virus attacked her spinal chord. She's incontinent, both bowels and bladder.

It's not fun. And 99% of the idiots who are romanticising a similar death won't have someone like me around to provide them with loving, compassionate, and respectful care. They'll be lucky if they get their diapers changed once a day.

I think that's a fringe element of complete asses and you know what? Darwin's Theory will deal with them. lol One can only hope that they're not polluting the gene pool with more idiots.

[dacrons_lair]

I plead the "refer to my icon" law.

-M

[sparda219]

Amen, brother.

[neddiedrow]

That's so very depressing. I can't even elaborate on how that makes me feel.

[thinkwell]

Dear Sparda, I finished writing your drabble. It's up on thinkwell <- this account. I hope you like it and feel better soon. <3