02-04-2009, 03:37 AM
Hah, i was the 'main gay one' in my high school. Not something i'm proud of. Actually, that's a TOTAL lie, i'm holla proud of it. I campaigned for (and won) the right for guys to wear a skirt to school, just because i felt i might want to at somepoint, and ergo should have the right to. I never did wear one, sadly...
High school should really not be 'pro' anything except learning. Everything else is surely arbitrary. And that's taking it as a given that equal treatment is just a necessity.
I think advertising something as 'gay-friendly' or 'pro-gay' or 'pro-anything' is horribly counterproductive, when we should be institutionalising the menjtailtiy that we're all the same. If people spent more time doing that, how much pain and conflict could be avoided!!
ANyways, back to my time in high-school, which was what i was MEANING to contribute here. Sure i got bullied something awful. I got outed by the one person i trusted aged 14 and had to start over again socially. But it's made me holla stronger and more confident for it. Also a lot more jaded and cynical, it's where my acid tongue and bitchy asdies come from (or it exacerbated them at teh very least).
In school i got away with all kindsa stuff i shouldn't, like when i broke a keyboard in music class, or when i accidentally melted a stack of seives in HE, the list goes on. That was mostly because i was a straight A student and they cared so much about what i could do for them when it came to the leauge tables...
Further enforcing my point. Schools should be about education. I was lucky enough to be in that situation, and wish everyone could have it that way.
High school should really not be 'pro' anything except learning. Everything else is surely arbitrary. And that's taking it as a given that equal treatment is just a necessity.
I think advertising something as 'gay-friendly' or 'pro-gay' or 'pro-anything' is horribly counterproductive, when we should be institutionalising the menjtailtiy that we're all the same. If people spent more time doing that, how much pain and conflict could be avoided!!
ANyways, back to my time in high-school, which was what i was MEANING to contribute here. Sure i got bullied something awful. I got outed by the one person i trusted aged 14 and had to start over again socially. But it's made me holla stronger and more confident for it. Also a lot more jaded and cynical, it's where my acid tongue and bitchy asdies come from (or it exacerbated them at teh very least).
In school i got away with all kindsa stuff i shouldn't, like when i broke a keyboard in music class, or when i accidentally melted a stack of seives in HE, the list goes on. That was mostly because i was a straight A student and they cared so much about what i could do for them when it came to the leauge tables...
Further enforcing my point. Schools should be about education. I was lucky enough to be in that situation, and wish everyone could have it that way.
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