Oddly enough, I'd never head that term before until this past Friday, when my mom (of all people) introduced me to it.
There are large numbers of people who view homosexuality as a wrong and evil. There's a stigma that saying things like "Oh, that's so gay" is not homophobic hate speech because everyone does it. In most situations you can call someone a *** and get away without anyone challenging it, but replace that with any other epithet and you're much more likely to get push back on it. When Columbine happened, we took the hint about bullying issues revolving around people who are socially awkward or nerdy. When Matthew Shepard was killed, we didn't. Now that five gay men have killed themselves in the last few months because of bullying, I'm hoping that as a nation we wake up to this issue, but I don't think we will. You have a nation where Carl Paladino can deliver hate speech against homosexuals less than 24 hours after NYPD found and arrested a gang that was torturing homosexuals in an apartment and, somehow, he's still going to be on the ballot in November for Governor of New York and large numbers of people are still going to vote for him. We, as a nation, deny homosexuals basic rights. It appears that the right to serve in the military is in the process of being granted to them, but what about legal marriage and everything that goes along with it. We let states vote on whether or not two consenting adult males can get married and obtain the rights that go along with it. Doesn't anyone else find that absurd? Iowa figured it out and I wouldn't exactly consider that state to be a hotbed of liberal thought and activity.
Honestly, I'm more "putoff" by a persons inability to be cool then I am by who they sleep with. If a guy wants to hook up with another guy, big deal, as long as they are personable and cool, I could care less. I guess I'm NERDAPHOBIC!
It's odd, but not surprising, how you advocate the rights of homosexuals, and yet against those of Christians in another thread. My opinion would state that all citizens of this country have an equal right to the freedoms guaranteed us under the Constitution.
Its neither odd nor surprising that you're twisting what I have had to say in both threads so that you can play the Christian victim card yet again. I won't rehash the entire argument from the other thread but if you actually read what I wrote there instead of lumping me in with some others who are throwing out idiotic and senseless arguments against all Christians, I'm opposed to a single counseling student continuing in the profession. I believe in my various posts there, I spoke quite favorably of a professor who shared her Christian beliefs with us and of classmates who did the same. In fact, I can tell you if I was going to seek counseling from any of my classmates, I'd go to Danny, the recent retiree from the military who ran a support group out of his Christian church and shared openly with us that he derived his strength to carry through a recent difficult life situation from his strong faith in God and support from his pastor and his church. I actually advocate in there that Christians can make excellent counselors, but that in the case relevant to the thread, the single counseling student in question is not fit to counsel. I'm not sure if I mentioned it or not, but I obtained my counseling degree from St. Bonaventure University, a Catholic affiliated school and work at La Salle University, which also has a Catholic affiliation. If I didn't believe that believers in God and that Christ died for our sins were capable of contributing to the development of young men and women who are the future of our nation, I would not have spent four years working at one Catholic school and followed it up with another job at another Catholic school. Please reconsider what you have had to say to me and about my posting in that thread. I can firmly and honestly state without any equivocation that all citizens in this country do have an equal right to the freedoms granted under the Constitution. Can you? Should a consenting adult male be able to marry another consenting adult male and have all of the rights associated with heterosexual marriage in this country? Your answers can be yes or no, but if your answer isn't the same to both questions, you're lying to yourself.
Kingspeed stuck up for them through his Zack Addy role on Bones, except for the whole serial killer thing later on.
Yet...you hang out all day on a message forum, and you work in what amounts to glorified A-V Club. HCP, you need to admit it and embrace the nerd-side.
I was bullied for being a very vocal, longhaired peace activist. Nowadays the goth kids get abuse. Builds character, self-esteem, and inspires one to learn self defense. Everyone should be so fortunate.
It was actually very interesting to go to my HS reunion this summer. I was always cool with everybody..... gang members, thespians, stoners or chess club! Everybody kind of went back to there old clicks, but I was able to visit with everybody. This king nerd I grew up with is actually a fucking rocket scientist! It was awesome, he actually had a pocket protector on during the reunion!
I'm still wondering how one becomes a "former" nerd. What steps did you take to pull yourself out from the depths of nerdom?
Nerds get bullied, then go play video games. Homosexuals get bullied and they take it much harder.. Nerds get bullied more, but homosexuals take it harder imo. I guess Im considered to be a nerd, but I backlash against shit thats said to me.
