I keep doing stupid things?
May. 19th, 2011 03:42 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
potato_headTripper dropped one of his bones on my foot. Um, it was heavy. Ow. I think he managed to break three of my toes in one go P:
In other news, I re-discovered Fundies Say the Darndest Things! today and made the incredibly bad choice of actually reading it. And I'm going to cut the rest of this because I'm going to repeat some of the things I read there and they are really, really bad, and possibly triggering (for rape anddd...general really, really terrible hate speech, I don't even know how else to describe it, this stuff is terrible; also, same goes for the link above to Fundies Say the Darndest Things, since this is all shit from there)
Generally, my reaction to outrageously hateful and/or ignorant BS starts with incredulous amazement, then unexpectedly takes a turn into actual, sick-to-my-stomach gagging. I think it's probably the point at which I subconciously realize this is not a few isolated people, but rather large groups who actively hate me for the various crimes of being liberal, trans, and queer; who think I am out to rape their children to make them queer (...and trans, probably); who think because I was born with traditionally 'female' parts I have no soul or emotions; who think because I was born in America, which has anti-prostitution laws, I deserve to be raped.
So why would I read this shit? I don't even really find it amusing at any point.
There is a reason; basically, it's in my nature to try to hear out ANYBODY who tries to make a point. If somebody has thought through something and came to a conclusion, I want to hear it, I want to try to understand what they're saying, I want to know what they've learned. It's part of me being a general um...knowledge-hound? And also, I think, because I so much value free and logical thought.
I rarely experience cognitive dissonance. (This is probably a fault.) This is why, I think, it hits me so hard when I am caught between exploring free thought and the revelation that some people, through what they see to be logical thought, arrive at the above conclusions. I'm not sure what to do with that.
In other news, I re-discovered Fundies Say the Darndest Things! today and made the incredibly bad choice of actually reading it. And I'm going to cut the rest of this because I'm going to repeat some of the things I read there and they are really, really bad, and possibly triggering (for rape anddd...general really, really terrible hate speech, I don't even know how else to describe it, this stuff is terrible; also, same goes for the link above to Fundies Say the Darndest Things, since this is all shit from there)
Generally, my reaction to outrageously hateful and/or ignorant BS starts with incredulous amazement, then unexpectedly takes a turn into actual, sick-to-my-stomach gagging. I think it's probably the point at which I subconciously realize this is not a few isolated people, but rather large groups who actively hate me for the various crimes of being liberal, trans, and queer; who think I am out to rape their children to make them queer (...and trans, probably); who think because I was born with traditionally 'female' parts I have no soul or emotions; who think because I was born in America, which has anti-prostitution laws, I deserve to be raped.
So why would I read this shit? I don't even really find it amusing at any point.
There is a reason; basically, it's in my nature to try to hear out ANYBODY who tries to make a point. If somebody has thought through something and came to a conclusion, I want to hear it, I want to try to understand what they're saying, I want to know what they've learned. It's part of me being a general um...knowledge-hound? And also, I think, because I so much value free and logical thought.
I rarely experience cognitive dissonance. (This is probably a fault.) This is why, I think, it hits me so hard when I am caught between exploring free thought and the revelation that some people, through what they see to be logical thought, arrive at the above conclusions. I'm not sure what to do with that.
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Date: 2011-05-19 02:09 pm (UTC)especially since they're so numberous tbh
wish we could gather them all up and move them to north dakota or something so they could be unrepentantly nasty and happy about it and leave the rest of us alone