Monday, October 17, 2011

Frustrating til no end!

Okay so I just posted my "greeting post" but I need to post again. Go on a couple rants before bed you know? Just to get things off my chest. Okay first off I just finished a book that was lent to me. The name: Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg. If you haven't read it then please do and if you have then you have to understand where my frustration towards humanity is coming from! Okay so for those of you who haven't read this work of literary genius it's a fictional novel loosely based on the experiences of Leslie Feinberg and other members of the LGBT community throughout the 60s and 70s. The story is centered around a butch lesbian named Jess trying to survive in society and the constant pressure she feels to somehow conform as best she can without becoming someone she isn't. It also explores the disgusting amounts of emotional, psychological, physical, and sexual abuse these women and men take from people (including police) just for trying to live their lives. After finishing this book, which I did in about two days, I contemplated what I had just read while sitting on my couch looking out the window. I did this for about five minutes, calmly got up and went to my bathroom and sobbed. Yep...bawled my eyes out. And it wasn't anything specific that happened at the end...I mean don't get me wrong there were horrendous and despicable things that I read in that book but it almost numbed me. It was so unbelievable to me I had almost no reaction. And I devoured that book so quickly I don't think I gave myself time to feel...even now as I write this I'm nauseated by the things I read in that book. And yes this book is fictional but these things happened and still happen today I'm sure. It really is disgusting what we're doing to our fellow human beings just because we are ignorant to the lifestyle they were born to live. You'll probably see a lot of posts on here discussing LGBT issues because if there's one thing in this world that can frustrate me until the end of time it would be injustices. Especially in this country..."land of the free" yep...sounds like a load of bullshit to me. Just saying.

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