"we didn't choose to be gay we were born with it"
bullshit. i know some of you might have the predeliction of a gay preference from an early age, perhaps the earliest discernable age (its based on attraction... so you'd know what you were around puberty). part of the problem is people seem to think anaffinity for feminine stuff is a tell tle sign for gayness. its not. you are simply interested in fair things. sex with men is a sexual thing. perhaps you might sexualize men if you are feminine and perhaps identify more with the role of the woman in relationships that you see on tv or perhaps in real life. but the thing is, one does not guarenete the other. one may introduce the other, but thats about it. and so some people say "im born gay." bullshit, i say. i think its perhaps something that MA Ybe programmed in FOR SOME. but i do know that we do have free will, and someone could choose to be gay without perhaps having gayness as their preference at their first known cognifitive moment of sexual maturation. some choose, some start, others grow into it, and perhaps some grow out of it. its fluid, like all living things- biologically based lifeforms change and evolve as they grow, and one so cognitively based such as ours is fueled by choice and thought over many other factors. some may be biologically driven to be gay, others likely are not. certainly for ALL gay people there is no ONE cause.
Friday, July 30, 2010
kids & justice
http://www.racialicious.com/2010/07/28/framing-children%E2%80%99s-deviance/#more-9390
when i see the two videos juxtaposed, i think of how both children are equally terrifying and equally capable of wrongdoing. neither child is of course an adult, but a child, an adult0in-training. the message here from the parents should be clear, what was done was wrong, unacceptable, for the many laws broken, and hazards dared, albeit without a scratch. the risks they took should be understood, as well as the potential pain caused, and the damage that could've and already was done.
they need to understand how society works, and why its beneficial to follow laws rather than to break them; they need to get a feel for the fact that law is there to protect members of a society from rogue elements that would impinge on their freedom to live happily.
whether a child be taken to a facility, or a child be taught by their parent, something certainly should be done. but i think these videos say less about the children than they do about the assumed capability of the parents. obviously the police feel its a good idea to get involved with the African-american kid, but with the white kid, there isn't any police force on the show (why would there be?) but also the seeming assumed outcome for the white kid is that he wont be getting any slap on the wrist from the cops. (nor did the cop that pulled him over make an appearance on the show, strangely).
the point is in case #1 with the black kid the cops assume the parents dont have the cajones or skill to make do with the situation and make right with the wrong, pass the knowledge down of societies rule and the potential for harm, why the kid literally CANNOT act as he did, given the rules of society enforced by the punishments of it. they would rather he face those punishments in a gritty in your face realism that "the system" can bring; over the ability of those parents of this kid, their ability to make him understand right from wrong; police assume they aren't capable of the job, and take matters into their own hands, essentially using "the system" as a surrogate parent, given the grandma's seemingly assumed incompetence.
the white child on the other hand is seen in the arms of his family, with the camera panning to them regularly; these are "good" people who you can laugh with and even adore in a strange way- as the host seems to try to paint the picture. but juxtaposing the two videos, you see two identical children handled in two very different ways, not by their families necessarily, but by the police force, and the media seems to be lapdogs for the authority's position, readily embracing the assumed ... scolding-being-enough for the white child, yet not quite being enough for the black child. its not the child, again, thats being evaluated, but the ability of the parents to cope with this curve ball in their tenure as guardians of this child. the parents are either assumed incapable, or capable, by the law enforcement. the child is getting treatment based on this assumption, and therefore the law isn't really working the way it should; that is, unbiased, and fair & equal, but more-so very biased, unequal, and just plain ugly.
when i see the two videos juxtaposed, i think of how both children are equally terrifying and equally capable of wrongdoing. neither child is of course an adult, but a child, an adult0in-training. the message here from the parents should be clear, what was done was wrong, unacceptable, for the many laws broken, and hazards dared, albeit without a scratch. the risks they took should be understood, as well as the potential pain caused, and the damage that could've and already was done.
they need to understand how society works, and why its beneficial to follow laws rather than to break them; they need to get a feel for the fact that law is there to protect members of a society from rogue elements that would impinge on their freedom to live happily.
whether a child be taken to a facility, or a child be taught by their parent, something certainly should be done. but i think these videos say less about the children than they do about the assumed capability of the parents. obviously the police feel its a good idea to get involved with the African-american kid, but with the white kid, there isn't any police force on the show (why would there be?) but also the seeming assumed outcome for the white kid is that he wont be getting any slap on the wrist from the cops. (nor did the cop that pulled him over make an appearance on the show, strangely).
the point is in case #1 with the black kid the cops assume the parents dont have the cajones or skill to make do with the situation and make right with the wrong, pass the knowledge down of societies rule and the potential for harm, why the kid literally CANNOT act as he did, given the rules of society enforced by the punishments of it. they would rather he face those punishments in a gritty in your face realism that "the system" can bring; over the ability of those parents of this kid, their ability to make him understand right from wrong; police assume they aren't capable of the job, and take matters into their own hands, essentially using "the system" as a surrogate parent, given the grandma's seemingly assumed incompetence.
the white child on the other hand is seen in the arms of his family, with the camera panning to them regularly; these are "good" people who you can laugh with and even adore in a strange way- as the host seems to try to paint the picture. but juxtaposing the two videos, you see two identical children handled in two very different ways, not by their families necessarily, but by the police force, and the media seems to be lapdogs for the authority's position, readily embracing the assumed ... scolding-being-enough for the white child, yet not quite being enough for the black child. its not the child, again, thats being evaluated, but the ability of the parents to cope with this curve ball in their tenure as guardians of this child. the parents are either assumed incapable, or capable, by the law enforcement. the child is getting treatment based on this assumption, and therefore the law isn't really working the way it should; that is, unbiased, and fair & equal, but more-so very biased, unequal, and just plain ugly.
Monday, July 26, 2010
"if i was dating a bi guy, it would make no difference whatsover to me, i think it would be completly hypocritical. the only difference it might make is that i would feel closer to him because he understands the struggle bi/gay people go through, maybe even more so than women."
bullshit. i mean like.. yeah you talk about the struggle of gay / bi people, but i mean dude, look at this place, look at the resource you hav.e now imagine if instead of gay you were a TCK. guess what? there'slike no resources for people of that distinction. and unlike many "curious" "in the closet" gay people, there's never really a time where TCK's can escape their life. it's a developmental thing, the kids are shifted places and are given two cultures but having lived amongst the pair they're neither of either so they're a hybrid third with the possibility of being able to freely pick amongst any culture and society. that lack of belonging and ownership means theyre relatively free agents to be able to shop amongst the worlds cultures and beliefs which is nice. additionally, given my religious upbringing in two different sects, i feel the same thing about spirituality. its a shopping cart there for me to peruse and find the one im most attached to. many people dont have such an ability, such an oppertunity, to be able to find a theology and way of life that fits them unhindered. its nice. but the thing is, its a solitary path, and you can say what you like about gay/bi struggles, but the struggles of TCK's are just as badif not worse given the fact that there jut sint any organized support for people like me. so when you talk about how "people understand the struggle of gays" or whatever... it just makes me feel like you're taking liberties. because at the end of the day, to go t oa site where folk can sit and support one another, a place where the entire status quo is in line with your way of thinking, how can you sit there and bemoan the state of things when you have such a strong and supportive community and culture? its just retarded if you ask me. gay people ar elargely selfish bastards, they may try and talk about how noble their quest is for freedom, but they would never extend such a helping hand if it were to benefit a group other than their own. TCk's certainly don't see any love. so don't expet me to extend my sympathies to you when you're crying about how the world is "mean" to you. it does that, thats how it works. it wont change, but you can support folk through it. however your community seems selfishly to only want to support their single brand of existence. how closed minded. fucking rediculous.
bullshit. i mean like.. yeah you talk about the struggle of gay / bi people, but i mean dude, look at this place, look at the resource you hav.e now imagine if instead of gay you were a TCK. guess what? there'slike no resources for people of that distinction. and unlike many "curious" "in the closet" gay people, there's never really a time where TCK's can escape their life. it's a developmental thing, the kids are shifted places and are given two cultures but having lived amongst the pair they're neither of either so they're a hybrid third with the possibility of being able to freely pick amongst any culture and society. that lack of belonging and ownership means theyre relatively free agents to be able to shop amongst the worlds cultures and beliefs which is nice. additionally, given my religious upbringing in two different sects, i feel the same thing about spirituality. its a shopping cart there for me to peruse and find the one im most attached to. many people dont have such an ability, such an oppertunity, to be able to find a theology and way of life that fits them unhindered. its nice. but the thing is, its a solitary path, and you can say what you like about gay/bi struggles, but the struggles of TCK's are just as badif not worse given the fact that there jut sint any organized support for people like me. so when you talk about how "people understand the struggle of gays" or whatever... it just makes me feel like you're taking liberties. because at the end of the day, to go t oa site where folk can sit and support one another, a place where the entire status quo is in line with your way of thinking, how can you sit there and bemoan the state of things when you have such a strong and supportive community and culture? its just retarded if you ask me. gay people ar elargely selfish bastards, they may try and talk about how noble their quest is for freedom, but they would never extend such a helping hand if it were to benefit a group other than their own. TCk's certainly don't see any love. so don't expet me to extend my sympathies to you when you're crying about how the world is "mean" to you. it does that, thats how it works. it wont change, but you can support folk through it. however your community seems selfishly to only want to support their single brand of existence. how closed minded. fucking rediculous.
Saturday, July 10, 2010
piracy
"No surprise there. The Pirate Bay and the Pirate Party have been making a mockery of lawful society for a long time. Why don't they do something productive instead of ripping off the productive people in our society? The fact that the Pirate Bay is at all popular just shows that freeloading scumbags care more about what they can take than any semblance of law and justice for the people working to create their entertainment. "Mine, mine, mine. I'll take what I want, screw everybody" is the mantra of pirates. No surprise that the Pirate Bay comes from the same country where marauding Vikings originated."
absolute bullshit. this's fucking nonsense. don't come down on the people who try to get by SHARING not stealing. where do you draw the line? who are you to say that sharing is illegal? then where in your mind does a library fall? you are denoucing one of the most basic societal + cultural areas of information storage and passage. people say they think thee creators of that art are being shafted, but really... all that theyre losing out on is the digital creation of their product. they can perform it live, and make money. they can sell physical packaging that cannot be downloaded. the thing is... people don't bother trying to sell things that are of any worth to their consumers. instead they think hereticizing the intnernet and all things digital is the best way to go. lets just say youre better off working with the digital breed rather than against them. the net creates possibility, don't simply try and bemoan the fact that this change is inconvenient. use the new to create some new business models. otherwise if you keep living in the past you showw yourself off as a dinosaur, perhaps never worthy of the immense profits you once reapeed, as you simply stole the idea from another idea-man, one who perhaps got bullied off the pedestal by you, as thats all you seem to know. when the roof is taken off the building, when there is no cap, vertical growth is allowed and will begin to happen. perhaps not from whence you want it, but it will happen, and those innovations can lead the way for revlutions of entire industries. that to me is the massive change potential laced in with this whole thing. the world can move a step forward if certain delivery methods are considered worthy. without any attempt at working with the new cultures and such social movements then its utterly useless to try and make any stab against the people. accept those that are different to you; if life limb or property arent being infringed, then don't come down oon these people. reinventing the term property to create a loophole where unjustifiable attacks are now justified only makes you appear the deciever, and nobody's fooled. perhaps you can lie to yourself so often that it then becomes etched in your mind as a falshood held as truth, but the masses can smell deception when it is so clearly and grotesquely formed out of such negative bias and utter intolerance for ways of life differing from ones own. no harm is brought, and help is wrought, by the methods of the pirates and other sharers. sharing is an admirable trait, and just because it impacts ones profit margin, then it seems that the business is agaisnt admirable qualities. it seems that the money mongerers are more intent on their pennies than the furtherment of civilized society and the greater goood of mankind. we should seperate our divisions and wok together rather than etching such rigidly protected caste whereby keeping certain people from certain action even though such action is humanly possible and not damaging in the flesh. the old businesses must go and the new must be... wrought in ways that work in harmony with the world at large and of our time.
absolute bullshit. this's fucking nonsense. don't come down on the people who try to get by SHARING not stealing. where do you draw the line? who are you to say that sharing is illegal? then where in your mind does a library fall? you are denoucing one of the most basic societal + cultural areas of information storage and passage. people say they think thee creators of that art are being shafted, but really... all that theyre losing out on is the digital creation of their product. they can perform it live, and make money. they can sell physical packaging that cannot be downloaded. the thing is... people don't bother trying to sell things that are of any worth to their consumers. instead they think hereticizing the intnernet and all things digital is the best way to go. lets just say youre better off working with the digital breed rather than against them. the net creates possibility, don't simply try and bemoan the fact that this change is inconvenient. use the new to create some new business models. otherwise if you keep living in the past you showw yourself off as a dinosaur, perhaps never worthy of the immense profits you once reapeed, as you simply stole the idea from another idea-man, one who perhaps got bullied off the pedestal by you, as thats all you seem to know. when the roof is taken off the building, when there is no cap, vertical growth is allowed and will begin to happen. perhaps not from whence you want it, but it will happen, and those innovations can lead the way for revlutions of entire industries. that to me is the massive change potential laced in with this whole thing. the world can move a step forward if certain delivery methods are considered worthy. without any attempt at working with the new cultures and such social movements then its utterly useless to try and make any stab against the people. accept those that are different to you; if life limb or property arent being infringed, then don't come down oon these people. reinventing the term property to create a loophole where unjustifiable attacks are now justified only makes you appear the deciever, and nobody's fooled. perhaps you can lie to yourself so often that it then becomes etched in your mind as a falshood held as truth, but the masses can smell deception when it is so clearly and grotesquely formed out of such negative bias and utter intolerance for ways of life differing from ones own. no harm is brought, and help is wrought, by the methods of the pirates and other sharers. sharing is an admirable trait, and just because it impacts ones profit margin, then it seems that the business is agaisnt admirable qualities. it seems that the money mongerers are more intent on their pennies than the furtherment of civilized society and the greater goood of mankind. we should seperate our divisions and wok together rather than etching such rigidly protected caste whereby keeping certain people from certain action even though such action is humanly possible and not damaging in the flesh. the old businesses must go and the new must be... wrought in ways that work in harmony with the world at large and of our time.
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