Ah. My Glorious Home State

[wordweaver06]

 Of course I would be planning to move back to Virginia to go to school right around the same time the asshole attorney general from the state decided to forbid sexual-orientation anti-discrimination legislation. Gee thanks dickwad; why don't be start giving out stimulus checks for hate-crimes while we're at it

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[mammawendy]

on that last thought, it would be an interesting experiment to see the reaction. never for serious, but the point seems appropriate to make. because you're right. it's offensive that my intelligence or my capability of succeeding in school is some how equated to the fact that i'm a girl who prefers kissing boys. i went to a single sex school for high school and i know that one of the big reasons for such things is to cut out some distractions. i think for me it cut out the reason to care much about how i looked when i went to school (once the uniform was on), what with no one to really impress. that created my focus, not the fact that there were no boys to compete with in the classroom. but i'll tell you this, and i'm not sure where the connection is, but during my senior year there was a case of two girls starting to date and they were asked not to show so at school. i was disgusted. girls were allowed to hug, skip hand in hand, lounge together, until "friends" no longer applied. i think in protest they started making out in the main

[wordweaver06]

That story reminds me of my other big complaint with the public approach to the "immorality" of homosexuality. I feel like there's a misconception out there that homosexuality is all about the "sex" part. It's fine to watch a heterosexual couple give each other a little peck on the cheek or hold hands because it's implied that these are small signs of affection indicative of the closeness of their relationship. But if two boys expressed themselves in the same manner, everyone's mind immediately goes to whatever they must be doing in the bedroom. So many people seem to assume that if a child sees such a display of affection between members of the same sex, that the CHILD will make the jump to assume that they must be doing obscene things behind closed doors. I find the double standard incredibly frustrating, especially since I feel that it has been adopted by the homosexual community as a means of protest. "Fine, us being affectionate makes you uncomfortable...let me make you REALLY uncomfortable." And thus the vicious, pointless cycle