Hold on to your butts kids, this is gonna be a doozy!
We'll isn't that the reaction you were looking for?
No, not at all. The reaction I was looking for is "Maybe we shouldn't be hating a fellow human being who is having absolutely no effect on our personal lives". But I can see how, with the other people posting in this thread, it's hard to tell that there ARE posts on the internet that aren't trolls trying to pick a fight.
He quite simply could have typed this differently and received a much better, supportive response.
If you think I'm seeking your support for my decisions, you're a fool. People here can call names all they want, they can spew insults, and I'll read it, take a deep breath, climb on my motorcycle, ride over to an $8 million airplane and go burn holes in the sky upside down for a few hours and forget all about it. And the best part is THEY'LL be paying for it!
What I DO want is not to have to worry, every time my ex goes for a jog, or walks to the store, if she's going to make it home. What I want is for people to recognize that these individuals they are spewing acidic hate at are HUMANS, just like you, just attempting to live their lives, like you, and that respecting, appreciating, or at the bare minimum, NOT HATING them doesn't make you anything different than you already are. In fact, it shows that you have actually evolved your conscience to realize that even if everything isn't as YOU think it should be, it's okay to let people live their lives, unmolested (Verbally as well, not just physically) when their lives aren't directly affecting you.
This makes sense and it's a very good question. Everyone is trying to pretend to be war heroes 70 years after the event and this come along. It's neither right nor wrong, just irrelevant.
It's about as relevant as the Bruce Genner thread (As that's what originally got people PMing me, asking questions), it's as relevant as Earl's dating posts, shall I continue?
Now again I ask you to prioritize. 500 kids a day dying of starvation in the U.S. or 10 transsexuals being murdered every year (which is totally unacceptable as well). Please don't nibble on your answer. Please provide one.
Very simple. People are not starving because someone is choosing to FORCE them to starve. Transexuals are dieing because someone is making an active choice to pick up a weapon and end their life. There is a long train of events, and many individual and governmental issues leading to a starving individual. There is just one that leads to someone taking a weapon and ending someone's life. Is starvation important? Absolutely. Are there millions of problems to be handled in this nation? Yes. But the issue of people dieing from acts of violence I think is THE biggest issue in our society. And it's not just in the LGBT community. I chose to address that aspect, because it DOES personally affect me, and we have already seen the "White lives matter, black lives matter" bits recently. LGBT murders are no less significant than any other hate-based murder.
And that's the saddest thing about this whole post. I'm not asking for you or anyone else to validate my decisions. I'm VERY happy with my life. I'm not asking anyone to decide that they want to be with/be a transgendered individual. I'm not asking you to change your views on religion or the afterlife. All I'm asking is for people to recognize that maybe, as human beings, it's a little more important to stop hating and attacking (Verbally or physically) someone just because they don't share your views. Maybe, JUST MAYBE, if we started treating people based on their treatment of us, and not how WE think they should live their lives, we might not have those problems like starvation, and segregation. Compassion flows at all levels.
