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Sep. 15th, 2004 11:01 amI feel bitter and vitriolic. I feel like raging at the world, railing against its blind stupidity, hammering down the walls of blinkered repression. I feel like tearing the head off the puppy of conformity. I feel like squirting lemon juice in the eye of the oppressor. I feeling like ranting in an LJ entry.
This means 2 things:
1) I'm in a good mood.
2) I need something to actually rant and rave about.
Let's see...
Well, I guess my first point would be a wide swipe of derision against all you pussies who claim to be 'friends' of mine (Nice words, Ross - let's alienate everyone right from the start).
Ok, let's make that more specific. Remember when I did that anti-LJcrush meme a short while ago? Or rather, remember when I failed to start off that meme? Yeah, that's right, I tried to do something to break the back of this prevailing attitude of pointless secrecy regarding crushes. Let's face it, we all want to know who fancies who. No question. But for some reason we can't ever possibly admit who we fancy to anyobody, no, that would be far too FUCKING EASY. Now, I admit, for a while it is quite fun to play the guessing game, and look at things like the LJ Crush meme and Themadone's 'Lovemap', and agonizingly try to piece together the disjointed fragments of people's relationships and crushes.
What a load of bullshit, I thought. Let's move away from that. Let's try something different. Let's just open up and be frank and honest. Not necessarily becasue it's a better thing to do - more just because it's a refreshingly different thing to do. Let's sweep out our emotional outhouses of the cluttered junk of our sexual desries and air them around for all to see. Surely we'll all leap at the chance to stand up and say "You! Yes, you - the sultry bitch with the fire in her eyes - I fancy you!" What could possibly be wrong with that?
Evidently something was. Because only one other person has actually followed my example. One.
You bunch of mewling pussies.
Some of you did offer to 'let people know if they asked', or something similar. Well, that's not quite the same is it? I mean, I appreciate your half-arsed attempt, but quite frankly no-one's really much the wiser, and you're still missing the point, which was to try and overcome our usual need to keep such things repressed and knotted-up inside of us because we can't possibly handle letting this information be released into a wider environment, OH GOD NO!!!
Ok, ok, so some of you may genuinely feel terribly uncomfortable with airing such things in the public eye, even if it is a 'public' forum still largely composed of people you generally like and trust. Hey, I've been like that in the past, and it might be I feel like that again in the future. There's nothing wrong with it.
I'm just disappointed that no-one felt inspired, however briefly, to ignore standard social conventions about such things and just stand up and state the honest truth about your emotions. I mean, it's hardly that crucial a fucking matter, is it?
I found that after all the build up due to the crush meme and lovemap it proved to be quite a cleansing, cathartic experience.
So maybe go back, take another look at this stuff, realise that it doesn't fucking matter not one fucking jot nor iota and say... "Fuck it. I fancy these people, and I'm willing to say so, because by doing so I have freed myself of some unnecessary barriers within me".
Here endeth rant 1. I go now to seek another. I hope you have enjoyed reading. Please feel free to make comments, pass judgement, flatter me or inject venom in the space provided below.
This means 2 things:
1) I'm in a good mood.
2) I need something to actually rant and rave about.
Let's see...
Well, I guess my first point would be a wide swipe of derision against all you pussies who claim to be 'friends' of mine (Nice words, Ross - let's alienate everyone right from the start).
Ok, let's make that more specific. Remember when I did that anti-LJcrush meme a short while ago? Or rather, remember when I failed to start off that meme? Yeah, that's right, I tried to do something to break the back of this prevailing attitude of pointless secrecy regarding crushes. Let's face it, we all want to know who fancies who. No question. But for some reason we can't ever possibly admit who we fancy to anyobody, no, that would be far too FUCKING EASY. Now, I admit, for a while it is quite fun to play the guessing game, and look at things like the LJ Crush meme and Themadone's 'Lovemap', and agonizingly try to piece together the disjointed fragments of people's relationships and crushes.
What a load of bullshit, I thought. Let's move away from that. Let's try something different. Let's just open up and be frank and honest. Not necessarily becasue it's a better thing to do - more just because it's a refreshingly different thing to do. Let's sweep out our emotional outhouses of the cluttered junk of our sexual desries and air them around for all to see. Surely we'll all leap at the chance to stand up and say "You! Yes, you - the sultry bitch with the fire in her eyes - I fancy you!" What could possibly be wrong with that?
Evidently something was. Because only one other person has actually followed my example. One.
You bunch of mewling pussies.
Some of you did offer to 'let people know if they asked', or something similar. Well, that's not quite the same is it? I mean, I appreciate your half-arsed attempt, but quite frankly no-one's really much the wiser, and you're still missing the point, which was to try and overcome our usual need to keep such things repressed and knotted-up inside of us because we can't possibly handle letting this information be released into a wider environment, OH GOD NO!!!
Ok, ok, so some of you may genuinely feel terribly uncomfortable with airing such things in the public eye, even if it is a 'public' forum still largely composed of people you generally like and trust. Hey, I've been like that in the past, and it might be I feel like that again in the future. There's nothing wrong with it.
I'm just disappointed that no-one felt inspired, however briefly, to ignore standard social conventions about such things and just stand up and state the honest truth about your emotions. I mean, it's hardly that crucial a fucking matter, is it?
I found that after all the build up due to the crush meme and lovemap it proved to be quite a cleansing, cathartic experience.
So maybe go back, take another look at this stuff, realise that it doesn't fucking matter not one fucking jot nor iota and say... "Fuck it. I fancy these people, and I'm willing to say so, because by doing so I have freed myself of some unnecessary barriers within me".
Here endeth rant 1. I go now to seek another. I hope you have enjoyed reading. Please feel free to make comments, pass judgement, flatter me or inject venom in the space provided below.
