From: Steele, Kirk A (SteeleKA@nafm.misawa.af.mil)
Date: Tue Jan 29 2002 - 13:47:11 MST
I will answer shortly, to the point. You see dear, the problem is not that
you are subject to these derisions ad homininum, nor that you rightly
perceive them as unjust. The problem in this transaction of human
communication where you perceive the sanctioning reproach of you human
environment as something other than normal is that it is anything but
abnormal, most unfortunately.
For the gazelle to hate the hyena for it perceiving the gazelle as prey is
unrealistic. Gazelle you be, and the vast majority of humanity be that
hideously cackling canine. Somebody check me on this; I'm pulling this
figure deep from the recesses of my, well, memory let's say; 70% of adult
humanity wanders through life never maturing beyond the age of 13. Even
though they carry experiential capacity for basal function and concrete
operational thought, these vast masses of laughing ludittes will never
progress to the capacity for social perspective taking nor advanced moral
reasoning.
Violet, feel not persecuted in their corporophagic wake. Stand proud in your
sexuality and the knowledge of their behavior being based in ignorance and
fear. You are afforded the opportunity to freely admit the totality of you
identity without fear of suffering direct legal sanction. There are several
million people in the service of freedom who don't even have that.
In this case, pulling the weed out by the roots would be tantamount to
throwing the baby out with the bath water. Although it would make for a more
sanitary wash basin, we would somehow be the less for it. Suffer the fools
and don't give them the power over you to make you feel any less. We
celebrated MLK last Monday. Remember his dream. Remember it in all living
colour.
-----Original Message-----
From: Violet Beck [mailto:seizansha@hotmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2002 4:10 AM
To: virus@lucifer.com
Subject: virus: and now, in praise of the abnormal
FIRSTLY, greetings. i'm new to virus, as you have noticed. i stumbled upon
the site one day and found myself nodding in agreement to all of your
principles. and thus, here i am.
I have spent my entire life in a medium sized, upper-middle class suburban
community. I am blonde, blue-eyed Caucasian female who attends an expensive
prepratory school along with eight hundred other children that look and
speak almost exactly the way I do.
And I, as a human being, am considered grossly abnormal. I live simply and
dress conservatively. I do not watch much television and i spend most of my
time writing. I am openly bisexual. It's not that I am a repulsing or
unfriendly person--in fact, i try very hard to be kind--it is simply in my
few small differences in lifestyle that make people dislike me to the point
of hatred.
you see it everywhere: the white kid in the black school; the short kid on
the football team; the quieter man in the office. people always have someone
to pick on. They harass those that don't fit into their mold for society for
no reason other than that, deep down, this discrepancy amongst their fellows
perturbs them.
And it comes down to a large question: how to stop it? It is obvious that
many disasters could be averted; school shootings come first to my mind. A
few ideas come to mind, such as MTV's PSA campain to raise awareness about
minority groups in our community, but aside from that they only change i've
met so far since columbine was a metal detector to walk through every
morning. And that, my friends, is NOT a solution: it is trying to plug the
dam with sealing wax. we need to pull the weed out by the roots.
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