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Dec. 10th, 2004 11:57 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
aquabeanTaken from Sars, and This is Not Over:
Insane. This man is bugfuck insane. Gah!
Cry? Laugh? Both? Rant about freedom of expression and human rights?
*gives little sob* How can a person ever learn that they aren't a hateful waste of humanity if they never see themself, or anyone like them, represented in the world around them? I'm not that old, but I can't imagine how different my growing up would have been if there'd even been a chance that I might have come across books like James Howe's The Misfits. How much braver might I have been? What kind of stand might I have taken?
Books geared at young people, books that say it's okay to not BE like everyone else. We need them. We all do. And those kids growing up queer in places where you're told from the get-go that being "that way" makes you evil, a sinner, bound straight for hell. What will they do with out someone to give them the hope that the entire world isn't that way?
Insane. This man is bugfuck insane. Gah!
Cry? Laugh? Both? Rant about freedom of expression and human rights?
*gives little sob* How can a person ever learn that they aren't a hateful waste of humanity if they never see themself, or anyone like them, represented in the world around them? I'm not that old, but I can't imagine how different my growing up would have been if there'd even been a chance that I might have come across books like James Howe's The Misfits. How much braver might I have been? What kind of stand might I have taken?
Books geared at young people, books that say it's okay to not BE like everyone else. We need them. We all do. And those kids growing up queer in places where you're told from the get-go that being "that way" makes you evil, a sinner, bound straight for hell. What will they do with out someone to give them the hope that the entire world isn't that way?
