*throws self on fire*

[channonyarrow]

Things I Really Fucking Hate, Part The Bajillionth:

- Steve Irwin. He taunted animals. Animals taunted back and won. Paleoanthropological theory proved!
- Timothy Treadwell. Though I admit, I got a laugh out of it when I asked my mother if he'd been eaten yet and she said yes.
- "Safe space". What the fuck? When this is applied to a hate comm like cf_hardcore, do they really need a "safe space"? They're haters, dude. If they can't take it, they should shut the fuck up.
- On a related note, the entire concept that somewhere needs to be fucking sanitised For Your Protection makes me nuts. The world does not come with safety straps and it would suck if it did.
- Basically, I'm getting the idea that a "safe space" is somewhere where the nasty ol' world can't come poke you with a stick. Reasonable in small doses, perhaps - but guaranteed to make me froth at the mouth.
- Pathetic Political Posturing. Did you know that Iraq and the War On Terror are linked? After all those years of saying that they're not - they suddenly are. Oh, Joe Lieberman, how I wish to eat your liver.
- Joe Lieberman. Creepy when the VP candidate, pathetic loser now.
- Lawyers. I can't tell you why, because I work in Corporate America, and therefore it is confidential.
- Airline security. On the other hand, at least we're not only dissin' on the Muslims now. The latest instance of someone being thrown off a plane (and forcing the return of the plane to the gate) was a Hasidic Jew who spoke neither English nor French (on an Air Canada flight) who started praying. Clearly, a terrorist. Terrorists often pray, as do normal citizens. Therefore, normal citizens are, clearly, all terrorists.

More as it makes me angry.

Comments

[channonyarrow.livejournal.com]

I don't think you did, actually. I've seen too many comms/people/spaces (online and off) who seek a safe space to heal from something that, really, needs to be dealt with rather than frozen in amber and mourned. If you had taken your encounter and decided to mourn it rather than move past it - I've met too many people who can't do that. I lack sympathy in any case (seriously, I'm a very unsympathetic person; it's not that I don't care, it's that I think that if there is a problem it should be solved rather than discussed - very direct-action) and it's frustrating to be in the position of trying not to say "Yeah yeah yeah, been there done that got the t-shirt NOW MOVE THE FUCK ON."

People do get to determine their own levels of violation and victimisation, but having done that - you can't live there, as the_siobhan said. I think of "safe space" as a place to not heal that lives in the guise of a place that promotes healing, I think of it as, generally, a mistake, and I think of it as a place that perpetrates victimhood, and no one should be a victim. People are attacked, in ways literal and metaphorical, but being a victim - I dunno. Again, not sympathetic, so I tend to think of being a victim as a choice. And being in search of a safe space is a choice to perpetuate whatever victimised the person in the first place.

Sorry, this is probably incoherent. One of the things I find interesting about LJ is that when I post something, I invariably have to defend or clarify or re-discuss it, and it makes me make my thoughts more coherent, but I have some trouble putting thoughts on paper in a way that doesn't repeat the same point OVER AND OVER AND OVER without moving on to Point B any time soon.

[elynne.livejournal.com]

Sorry, this is probably incoherent. One of the things I find interesting about LJ is that when I post something, I invariably have to defend or clarify or re-discuss it, and it makes me make my thoughts more coherent, but I have some trouble putting thoughts on paper in a way that doesn't repeat the same point OVER AND OVER AND OVER without moving on to Point B any time soon.

S'okay, I tend to just ramble on incoherently, adding more words to the fire, and eventually give up with something along the lines of "well I obviously can't explain it properly". These days, what with the constant brain-squishy, I tend to avoid potentially contentious issues that would require heavy thinking on my part entirely. :P

[channonyarrow.livejournal.com]

I, um, should probably take that plan of action up. *g* No time to think for me!