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I'm sorry, I know I've been posting nothing but bad news and moaning for the last while, but I kinda need to get this off my chest.
First, I really am apparently far, far more naive than I ever thought I could be. Man, I have led a really sheltered life. Because in all honestly, I didn't actually realise that that level of ... of ... stupidity still existed. Really, I didn't. I didn't think any one person could still be so misogynistic, so racist, so sexist, so heterocentric, so blindly secure in their own biases that they actually could not see any other point of view. No. Not point of view. Reality. Because what they thought didn't exist is what a lot of my friends, family, and indeed myself, view as life.
I'm stupid. I really am. I feel sick and scared that I got involved at all. I don't even do meta, and the one time I decide to explore, I end up in this clusterfuck. And yes, I cursed. This thing has me doing that a lot.
*sighs* I don't know what to say. Because really, I didn't think people like that existed. I've never met that kind of blind, arrogant, hurtful and gloating ignorance before. I know some of you have, and often, and I know I seem a bit of an idiot right now. I am a bit of an idiot right now. And I said things, and they were useless, because anything I ever learned about debating and reasoned argument deserted me in the face of that monumental stupidity.
Gah! It doesn't even matter. I'm just sorry I've been such a naive, sheltered idiot, is all. So many people apparently put up with shit like that every day, just for being who they are, and while I sort of knew it, I never knew it. I never saw exactly what kind of ... stupidity is the only word I can come up with. Because it's stupid, and the people who parade around with those biases don't even realise how stupid it is, and that makes it worse because then they never, ever learn. You can't argue with it. You can't do anything with it. You just have to bear it, and when whole societies hold that kind of bias against you ... I can't imagine. I'm sorry that I can't. I'm so sorry, for anyone who has to life with that shit all their lives.
I hate stupidity. More than anything else, I hate stupidity. I'm just sorry that up until now I hadn't realised my own.
First, I really am apparently far, far more naive than I ever thought I could be. Man, I have led a really sheltered life. Because in all honestly, I didn't actually realise that that level of ... of ... stupidity still existed. Really, I didn't. I didn't think any one person could still be so misogynistic, so racist, so sexist, so heterocentric, so blindly secure in their own biases that they actually could not see any other point of view. No. Not point of view. Reality. Because what they thought didn't exist is what a lot of my friends, family, and indeed myself, view as life.
I'm stupid. I really am. I feel sick and scared that I got involved at all. I don't even do meta, and the one time I decide to explore, I end up in this clusterfuck. And yes, I cursed. This thing has me doing that a lot.
*sighs* I don't know what to say. Because really, I didn't think people like that existed. I've never met that kind of blind, arrogant, hurtful and gloating ignorance before. I know some of you have, and often, and I know I seem a bit of an idiot right now. I am a bit of an idiot right now. And I said things, and they were useless, because anything I ever learned about debating and reasoned argument deserted me in the face of that monumental stupidity.
Gah! It doesn't even matter. I'm just sorry I've been such a naive, sheltered idiot, is all. So many people apparently put up with shit like that every day, just for being who they are, and while I sort of knew it, I never knew it. I never saw exactly what kind of ... stupidity is the only word I can come up with. Because it's stupid, and the people who parade around with those biases don't even realise how stupid it is, and that makes it worse because then they never, ever learn. You can't argue with it. You can't do anything with it. You just have to bear it, and when whole societies hold that kind of bias against you ... I can't imagine. I'm sorry that I can't. I'm so sorry, for anyone who has to life with that shit all their lives.
I hate stupidity. More than anything else, I hate stupidity. I'm just sorry that up until now I hadn't realised my own.
