and its mostly at people i dont know.
when i read things (like blogs/articles/member comments on articles) that are so ugly and blatantly closed minded that it literally makes no sense, sometimes i laugh - because sometimes the ignorance is actually laughable. but sometimes i yell at the tv/computer/empty house in sheer frustration.
it may seem contradictory, but i am SO intolerant of ... well ... intolerance. i dont care what you believe. i dont care if you celebrate christmas or believe in god or are an atheist or if you are for or against gay marriage...everyone is entitled to their own belief system. when i start to get upset is when people push or force those beliefs on others or attack other people who think differently. or, more specifically, when they are hateful or ugly about anyone who believes differently.
ugh. sometimes i get so worked up.
it started reading about people wanting to take christmas out of thomas the tank engine because its not politically correct (although it was originally written by a minister) and ended with me reading that "the boyscouts of america hate gay people." ........and that they "take the position that homosexual conduct is inconsistent with the Scout oath ... and contrary to the Scout Law to be 'clean' in word and deed"
and now, people are mad at the tv show glee. why? oh, aside from all the other unrealistic highschool drama portrayed in this FICTIONAL FUCKING TV SHOW, the adoption community is up in arms about the fact that when quinn put her baby up for adoption, it was inaccurate to a real adoption. and now that she's falling apart and having a breakdown because of all of the grief, she wants her baby back. which, is also, inaccurate to real adoption laws.
its a tv show. a soap opera, for all intents and purposes. (if youve ever watched a soap, you know people die and come back all the time - very biologically inaccurate. where's the protest from the medical and scientific community?)....
whats next? some person riding a crazy train who believes they are a real life vampire (yes, these people exist) flip out because twilight is historically inaccurate and the vampire diaries casts vampirism in the wrong light too?
whats next?
....i read this stuff and all i can think is 'everyone is so stupid.' - and i know that's not a fair statement. and i dont literally think every person is so stupid. i just get SO MAD!
i have so much to say about all of these things, separately. like why i think its absurd to take christmas out of something where it was written in (so many reasons). and how mad it makes me that the boy scouts (or anyone) are openly hateful toward 'the homosexual lifestyle' (or however they addressed it) and why i think that is SO unacceptable. and how frustrated i get when people demand unreasonable things from glee (or any tv show) although its a fictional tv show and i think its offensive to the FICTION WRITERS to ask them to stop writing fiction. but i cant elaborate, i cant even really keep typing about it right now because i feel like i cant really talk about it coherently. i just feel like there is such a mentality of entitlement, that so many feel that their opinions and beliefs should be the only way and everything else should be removed, immediately.
embrace diversity. open your mind to the possibility that, no matter how much you've seen, how much you've experienced, what you've been through, you dont know EVERYTHING about ANYTHING. you dont have to believe everything everyone says, or change your mind just because you listen to another opinion.... but there is ALWAYS something to learn and there will always be people to teach you new things if you can listen.
xo.
m.
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