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[Taricus]

That works too. But hey, trying to have a good time before that.

Enjoy the apocalypse, see the beautiful mushroom clouds

[Darvi]

Too busy setting it up, sorry.

[Something Evil]

Some day, it'll be fuckin' rainbows and unicorns as far as the eye can see.

Or an endless field of glass and radioactive debris.
Or anything in between, really.

What is true is that getting people to see other people as people, not as things will reduce a lot of the harm, but that's not really feasible most times. People are obstinate in their beliefs, be they "good" or "bad". People aren't inherently evil, nor are they inherently good. The countless ways people shape each-other and themselves, as well as the countless paths such shaping can take leave much more to chance than we'd often like to admit.

WE all see our world in our own views, I dont think there is a view that is even right.

Human perception is subjective, hence incomplete, more so when it comes to other entities governed by subjectivity. No one holds the facts in their entirety, and when someone assumes the opposite, bad things happen.

[Solifuge]

WE all see our world in our own views, I dont think there is a view that is even right.

...Except mine.

But seriously, though we can never know and see everything, it's a good goal to move toward:

[Keita]

Yay, in rolls the hate mail/texts ¬_¬

[Simmura McCrea]

http://aliceandkev.wordpress.com/

[Taricus]

Yay, in rolls the hate mail/texts ¬_¬

Just delete them.

On my note, stupid neighbours dog

[Rose]

Yay, in rolls the hate mail/texts ¬_¬

you could send flirty texts back, but that probably wouldn't end well.

[Keita]

Heh yeah...

[Taricus]

Why life would be better with savescumming

[Simmura McCrea]

This is going to sound like shit advice, but just bear it. It's only so long until you get out of school and can leave those idiots behind. It's the way I did it.

[Something Evil]

As far as we'd be able to tell, it'd be like savescumming in a roguelike.

[Vector]

However, there are situations where one or two gay guys I don't really care for have hit on me continually, and in so doing step way beyond the bounds of personal space... trying to hang on me, get in touch with me, etc. and it makes me feel really skeezy. I do not enjoy when that happens at all.

For that, I've been called a Homophobe. Go figure.

Yeah, this.  Folks who don't hit on me: A-OK.  Folks who do hit on me, or who do so after I've expressed disinterest: not fucking cool.  I don't care if we're both women, you don't get to grab my breasts--whether I'm awake or asleep.  It's not funny, it's not cute, it's sexual harassment.  I've had two women decide this was cool, one straight and one gay, so I don't think it's necessarily an orientation problem--but at least the first one wasn't getting turned on as I tried to fend her off =/

I'm also not that fond of gay guys who tell me to look out for homophobes and beat them up if they bother us while the person in question is browsing the gay porn section of the local video store.  I'm a full foot shorter and probably as much as 40-50 pounds lighter.  It feels like being used as some sort of butch benchmark to offset the person in question's desired (?) femininity.  If he were asking "if someone heckles me, you'll back me up, right?" I'd certainly say yes.  When it's "I want you to be here to do the fighting while I run and/or watch," I get pissed.  Sure, it might have just been a joke, but it's not a very funny one.  Again, this happened only once, but I've been in enough fights myself to be nervous about it.

So, I don't know if this counts as homophobia or not.  Everyone who hits on me with any sort of sexual undertone makes me feel really nervous nowadays, so it's definitely not restricted to gay people.  Most guys know better than asking me to fight in their place; whether that's out of misplaced chivalry or simple courtesy, I don't know.

I hate to admit, though, that I'm still far more comfortable around men than I am around women.  The latter, especially lesbians, make me nervous.  I also typically relate better to men... *sigh.*  There's still a long way to go for Vector.

[Darvi]

People who think that minorities have a free ticket for behaving however they want are douches. They have to behave exactly as anybody else.


... not that I'm advocating good behavior or something.

[Leafsnail]

People going on about how horrible humanity is piss me off.

I agree.  Seems like a sweeping, arrogant generalisation to me (since obviously the speaker isn't included in "humanity").