The Keyboard Warriors
‘Since your ‘coming out’ you have become a d***, I miss Imogen. She was a nicer person than Cosmo. Before you say no this is not a dig at you for being trans, I couldn’t care about that, its just you used to be a good friend’
‘I really don’t care about your sexuality, that’s your choice, I’m not going to comment on it. But declaring yourself as a boy is just asking for trouble, you can’t be suprised when you receive hate from it’
‘... call youself a boy all you want but you’ll always be a girl no matter what surgery you get , if you want to be transgender thats cool but it’s literally all you ever talk about , you’re like what 14 or 15 ?’
‘Your 15, still young. Stop acting like you know how hard life is and shut up about being trans, you say you get loads of stuff said to you for being trans but other people get it worse so get over yourself’
‘... you think you’re amazing when in reality you’re nothing but a self centered person who thinks they’re amazing because they are trans reality check your not the only one you think you get it so hard, being trans isnt and excuse to be’
These are quotes from my Spillit, may I add they were all anons too. Hmm, real manly. I have to say once again, it’s pretty hard to take abuse seriously when they can’t even get their your and you’re’s right.
I don’t get angry that much any more over this, I get sad. Not for myself, but for the people who send this kind of stuff. I honestly feel sorry for them, I however don’t feel sorry for the people who get this kind of abuse because I think pitying them would be beneath them and they deserve so much more respect and praise than that for trying to be able to deal with it.
I feel sorry for these people because I can’t imagine what it must be like to be so narrow-minded and scared of what they don’t understand and what they are so unwilling to understand.
So, by their logic, the kids in Africa that are dying don’t have it rough because they’re only kids? Still young? Is that it?
I’m not allowed to talk about something that means a lot to me and is a big part of my life, yet I have to sit around each listening about teen drama, teen drama and more god-damn teen drama but I can’t talk about my girlfriend or my gender without people having a b**** fit? How is that fair? A lot of people on my Facebook talk about food a lot, what do you say to them? "You're so selfish, you're not the only one who gets hungry!" It's the same difference! How does it even make sense?
I honestly don’t think I have it any harder than any other trans person. If anything, I think I have it one of the easiest. I came out alright, my family accepted me, I have a beautiful girlfriend who loves me and didn't leave me when I came out to her, I didn’t become homeless.
That isn’t the case for many other trans people. Many are rejected, outcasted and abused a lot worse than just a few keyboard warriors bothering them because they have nothing better to do with their sad little teenage lives.
I don’t want to big myself up in anyway and I have said this countless time before but the reason this is also so important to me and the reason I want this so badly isn’t just for me, it’s also for the other hundreds of LGBTs who are abused and outcasted every day. I want to make them proud, I want people to open their eyes to the injustice LGBTs face every f****** day.
So instead of wasting your time trying to bring people down, why don't you get off your a*** and try and help someone. Try and help your f****** fellow man.
You judge me all you want, I can take that some people don’t like me, that’s completely fine. I'm big and ugly enough to deal with that, but to use this to try and get to me and against me, that’s just low and I feel sorry for you.
The best way I think I could describe my transition is like this; I’m a Time Lord and I have regenerated. I’m still the same person and I have the same inside but just have a different surface now. I may look a little different and act a little different but I'm still the same crazy ass Time Lord underneath all that.
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Mopsar_Us
Commented 45 months ago - 23rd August 2012 - 19:13pm
Hey =)
I'm a bisexual and living away from most of my friends. My only real friends in Cardiff are one gay and one lesbian friend. Although all three of us have some terrible issues we have faced in our lives, all three of us have never faced hardly any trouble 'coming out' so to speak.
I also 'had' a trans friend. This friend I ended up falling out with simply because he took offence where none was intended.
So, do I share the view that LGBT's are frowned upon? Well, not in my personal experience. I would say (personal estimate here) around 80% of the nation is either neutral or happy when meeting a LGBT.
The minority who aren't happy are usually taught that it is wrong by strict family or religious customs.
As much as I understand your irritation and offence taken due to said people, turning round and insulting them back is not the way to help them learn, or for you to keep your peace of mind.
These people aren't small minded in any way shape or form. As humans we follow a natural hierarchy whereby our ancestors dictate much of what we do. The older they are, whether a script from 200 years ago or your mother today. When you are told blue is blue, you believe it is blue. This is not due to being small minded, but due to the fact that we trust in our ancestors. We believe in ourselves.
People who believe it is wrong to be an LGBT aren't small minded, only slow to release their grasp on what once was the way. It has taken many years for many aspects of our life to change, for women to become men's equal, for religion to release its iron grip on their communities, for all races to be viewed as one. LGBT is as controversial as many of these subjects, and as such there is much debate, however, in time you will see them final 20% learn that being LGBT isn't a choice, it's a natural occurrence that may take place with anybody. This will lead to them 20% becoming 10% and 5% and ending with none, even if it takes 200 years to come about.
This is what freedom of speech, freedom of yourself has allowed.
The world is changing, and although it is not perfect, and may never be, we must continue to fight for our rights. Your point is valid, it's not for them to decide who or what you should or should not be, however if you do blog online, you need to know there are risks, and one risk is that many will not agree. I am proud of you for being strong and not letting them dictate your sexuality or life, but be even stronger and don't let them dictate your mood.
Every insult you dish out can be thrown back at you tenfold.
Or if you prefer, each time you point at someone you have three fingers pointing back at yourself.
Being LGBT does not make you vulnerable, so you don't need help just for being LGBT. Much surrounds it which may lead to you needing help, but if you don't need it, don't expect it.
Now, on the matter of grammar, I share your dislike of the mixing up of words, however that is the way life will always be until Microsoft master auto correction to perfection. (It's only a matter of time!!! =P)
Oh, and I like your time lord description, that is well thought out! =D
Don't let others get you down,
Don't let them see you frown,
You're better than this,
So don't take others who dis.
You may be an LGBT
But mate you're free,
Just smile with glee
And show the world what you can be!
-Mopsar_Us- ~ Aka Mop
=)
AddictedToDrPepper1
Commented 45 months ago - 29th August 2012 - 23:27pm
Thank you. This is the most detailed comment I've ever had :')
Mopsar_Us
Commented 45 months ago - 30th August 2012 - 12:03pm
You're welcome! I was on a roll wasn't I haha :P
Chin up :)