Does This Kind Of Stuff Just Happen In The South, Or Elsewhere Too?
This is actually more of a hateful rant, but I’m also wondering whether this is just due to Southern widespread homophobia or if this happens in the northern states as well.
So, as I’m sure many of the LGBT community knows by now, today is the day of silence. I forgot the card this morning, but I kind of figured that since I’m at the computer all day at school anyway I’d just go to the website and print it off here. However, I ran into some trouble.http://www.dayofsilence.org/ is blocked from school computers.
As well as every other website short of Wikipedia that deals with the Day of Silence or any LGBT-related websites that I could find.
How many of you think that this is just plain wrong and stupid? And is this common up north, or is this extremity of bigotry exclusive to the Southern states?
oh, it’s exclusive.
I’ve lived in Michigan for fourteen years, spent some time in Florida, and I now live in Tennessee, and I can personally attest that homophobia is much worse in the deep south than anywhere else on the planet, not to mention there is extreme racism, bigotry, and prejudice.
I actually run into people on a daily basis that think I’m making fun of them because I use words they don’t understand. I actually dumb down things that I post so that more people can understand them, anyone who knows me in person knows that I routinely use complicated and multi-syllabic words in daily conversation, and I usually don’t even realize that whoever I’m talking to doesn’t understand what I’m saying.
I wouldn’t be so agitated if they just had the dignity to ask “what does that word mean?” rather than saying I don’t know the meanings, or, in rare cases, actually saying that I’m stupid because they don’t understand the way I phrase things.
I apologize to any intelligent people living in Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, and Louisiana, but I’m sure that you have noticed it just like I have.
when I get the money saved up, I plan on moving back to Michigan.
Is this a high school or college? I am going to assume high school because I think I might have to bang my head against a wall if a college campus didn’t allow access to such a site.
It’s the south. At least from what I remember growing up there.
I would maybe bring it up with whoever is running the computer lab asking why it was blocked. Sometimes they just block such things in general assuming that it would be linked to porn so maybe they don’t know?
i live in upstate NY and my school is very supportive as long as we don’t create huge uproars or anything…
nothing is blocked and gay couples hold hands and kiss in the hallways all the time.
i used to live in the south and i know what you mean it’s just awful and suppressive down there.
Well I’m an atheist and in the South, so I get half the heat you’re catching. It’s joys of being in the Bible Belt really. :/ One day we will all leave them behind to throw bibles at each other. I’m sure they will eventually miss us. >.> Maybe.
It happens here in canada too… well similiar anyway… my Transgender profile was deleted from PoF.
When I was in High School (in NYC) the only thing they blocked on the internet was porn
I’m in Texas and DoS isn’t blocked from our school computers and we even got school support for doing it
no here hun in fact im on it right now
I haven’t heard of this. What is the day of silence for?
you don’t have to answer t his but where do you live? i currently live in southeast Louisiana and have my entire life. We didn’t have internet in my school of 631 students (preK through 12th grade) when I was there. I graduated in 95. But if i was there today, i could guarandamn-tee ya, it would be the same way. southern states are ridiculously homophobic. not sure about the northern states. i would hope that “The National Day of Silence” will one day affect people in a positive way and start to eliminate this need of fearing anything that’s different.
I’m in the middle of my journey of coming out and have been on that journey for about a year now. and where i live, it’s not the easiest thing i’ll ever do. for instance, i could go to the wilderness and fight bears and lions and probably come out less harmed and affected than I will be at the end of this long road.
if you want to honor the Day of Silence, then do so. The school made their choice in denying you the rights to read about at school, but they can’t make you speak.
good luck!