#rys rants

I am so fucking sick of seeing twisted social justice on this goddamned site. Since WHEN has it ever been okay or a good idea to combat ignorance with hate? Like, really, guys?

Here's some context:

I kept reading about this blog that apparently made some transphobic comments and was therefore receiving shit tons of hate mail. I went over there expecting some goddamn cis/elitist/ignorant bullshit and all I saw was someone promoting total equality and then being totally drowned in anons telling her to commit suicide. You know what, fuckers, if you've got the fucking genitals to tell someone to KILL THEMSELVES then you have the fucking genitals to get the fuck off anon and tell them straight. I don't know about her other opinions, but the backlash she received was ridiculous and inappropriate. 

Jennifer Lawrence recently made some transphobic remarks. While I was disappointed in her, writing her off as an asshole and totally disregarding all of her positive attributes that made her so popular in the first place is quite frankly narrow minded. Some people (a fuck load, actually) have not been exposed to as much diversity as, perhaps, others. When you are reared and conditioned in a society to think one way, you tend to fucking think that way until otherwise taught. Instead of adding labels and writing people off, teach them. Construct arguments. Ignorance is nothing more than a lack of knowledge, and that can only be bettered or corrected with information, knowledge, and the chance to empathize. I've been exposed to a shitload of diversity in my lifetime and I still catch myself slipping up and saying things that are absolutely archaic and against my moral standards. And you know what else? Public speaking is fucking hard. Holding interviews is fucking hard. Jennifer Lawrence (and other actors who have recently been completely denounced) will do over twenty interviews a day. You do that and not get delirious and tired and a bit stupid. A LOT of "social justice" bloggers I see on Tumblr also claim social anxiety. There is nothing wrong with having social anxiety, but when you fucking know and feel how difficult it is to stand in front of shitloads of people and talk and mingle and answer questions then you have no fucking right to attack people who literally do so all of the time and are under constant scrutiny to boot. Is it okay to make transphobic, racist, homophobic comments? No, it's not. But people are flawed and imperfect and shit happens and then you grow. 

If you can't do anything constructive and actually lucrative to the movements you profess to exalt, then get the fuck off your laptop and get a goddamn day job. As a matter of fact, get the fuck off your laptop and go talk to some people about humanity and what it means to actually empathize. Go talk to someone about mistakes and discovery and learning and growth.

Obamacare isn't a good idea right now. It needs to be tweaked and thought through a bit more before being implemented, there are still lots of holes to be filled. But it's not the end of the world or of America. There have been worse evils and now is not the time to shit on welfare as a whole.

Democrats:

Relax. Republicans are not the spawns of all evil. Obamacare has a lot of kinks right now, don't be so ready to jump the gun before it's been worked through. Republicans don't want the downfall of the middle and lower class, they just have opinions, much like yourself. 

Instead of using this shutdown to point fingers and make total asses of ourselves on television, let's just debate and amend and smooth out the wrinkles of this plan, and then let's let it pass because Obama's the president and he is trying to utilize his time in office for something. Is it a good something? That's not my place to say. Remember: We're not democrats or republicans, we're America. The job of the executive office should be to unite the divides of the nation, not bring them to blows. 

Fucking guns.

I like knowing that when I come of age, I can bear arms. My father took me to a range when I was fifteen and taught me how to shoot a gun in preparation for when I moved out of the house. I'm a tiny ass 17 year old female and while there are plenty of physically strong tiny ass teenage females, I am not one of them. I can't even refill the fucking sugar bin at work without someone helping me lift the bag. 

If we forbid civilians to bear arms, guns aren't going to disappear! People, who have no business carrying a gun, will find one to carry and if they wield it there will be no protection for people like me. 

Should we make it harder to own a gun? Sure. Regulations, laws, applications, background checks: let's do it. But the issue with shootings and violence lies not in gun control but in America's ignorance to the importance of mental health.