It’s strange how often we confuse rebellion with authenticity. There’s nothing subversive about mocking contentment.
Wanting love, companionship, a steady life, these aren’t signs of conformity. They’re human desires, no less valid than wanting to live differently. Rebellion loses its meaning when it depends on someone else’s peace to define itself.
Acceptance isn’t just about being seen at all. Maybe letting others exist in the quiet lives they’ve chosen, without making them proof of your own originality or visibility?
Clearly I don’t need to be on the underside of cultural norms to know the difference between a resentment piece disguised as a yearning for visibility and a post where someone is actually trying to be seen. One screams look at me for being unlike you, for not eating society’s heteronormative bias for breakfast, the other just wants to exist without announcing it.
I believe this is a genuine question. When you write something, you give a little piece of your thinking, desires and needs to the reader. The author here gives the impression that they hate everything that we grew up knowing as "normal." There's nowhere implied that the group pointed out whether they are gay or queer and that seems to annoy the author more than having a good time and connecting with people who shared the same life experience. Nobody really cares who you bed behind closed doors, they care if you shove it down their throats.
I will never understand this American thing of “buying” children to adopt and being even able to chose their ethnicity. In Europe you can’t give money to adopt and def can’t choose their ethnicity. You get what you get. The point is that you want to raise a child and take care of them, no matter their origins and skin color.
I’m not saying that we in Europe are better, but I agree that this stuff is crazy and should be made illegal (the “buying” children thing).
It’s strange how often we confuse rebellion with authenticity. There’s nothing subversive about mocking contentment.
Wanting love, companionship, a steady life, these aren’t signs of conformity. They’re human desires, no less valid than wanting to live differently. Rebellion loses its meaning when it depends on someone else’s peace to define itself.
Acceptance isn’t just about being seen at all. Maybe letting others exist in the quiet lives they’ve chosen, without making them proof of your own originality or visibility?
Seriously? That’s your response to this? Clearly you have never been on the underside of stifling cultural norms.
Clearly I don’t need to be on the underside of cultural norms to know the difference between a resentment piece disguised as a yearning for visibility and a post where someone is actually trying to be seen. One screams look at me for being unlike you, for not eating society’s heteronormative bias for breakfast, the other just wants to exist without announcing it.
What makes you think the purpose of this piece is performative rebellion?
I believe this is a genuine question. When you write something, you give a little piece of your thinking, desires and needs to the reader. The author here gives the impression that they hate everything that we grew up knowing as "normal." There's nowhere implied that the group pointed out whether they are gay or queer and that seems to annoy the author more than having a good time and connecting with people who shared the same life experience. Nobody really cares who you bed behind closed doors, they care if you shove it down their throats.
I will never understand this American thing of “buying” children to adopt and being even able to chose their ethnicity. In Europe you can’t give money to adopt and def can’t choose their ethnicity. You get what you get. The point is that you want to raise a child and take care of them, no matter their origins and skin color.
I’m not saying that we in Europe are better, but I agree that this stuff is crazy and should be made illegal (the “buying” children thing).