smurf idiots (this is actually about music too)
Posted: Thu Sep 12, 2013 6:19 pm
Okay, so today at college, I plugged my phone in to play some music. When I was about to put it on, someone, who I shall refer to as Will because that's his name and it's easier than calling him someone all the time, told me that I could only put on music if it was "happy music, and not that 'I want to slit my wrists' music, like Emily plays" (Emily is my closest friend), amongst other things.
You may be thinking that okay, this isn't that bad. Granted it's pretty rude, but he's expressing his opinion about music, right? Wrong. The 'I want to slit my wrists' music is what he uses to cover all rock and metal music (today's music was mostly Blink-182 and Green Day, I think). Okay, so I'll accept that there is music out there about self harm and suicide. But not all music from one particular genre is the same. And the songs that are about self harm and suicide usually aren't promoting them (I can't think of one that is). I'll let him off for saying that to me because he doesn't know what I'm dealing with, but he shouldn't really be saying that to anyone.
Usually I would just try to ignore his comments, but I've had enough. He's also made misogynistic comments in the past, alongside many other offensive ones, and I've had enough. I have got some music about self harm and suicide, but not promoting it, and tomorrow I shall *hopefully calmly* explain why he can't dismiss music like that and also that it's not smurf well acceptable to make comments like that (okay, maybe not so calmly then). But I'm not stopping there. I'm going to make a stand about people's attitudes towards issues like self harm and suicide while I'm at it. I'm fed up of people making jokes, like planning on calling the Samaritans each day "just for a laugh", the vandalism on a poster about mental illness saying "who cares?", people who draw lines on their skin and when asked say things like, "oh, I cut myself; hah, I'm joking, I'm not an emo freak". It's time someone opened their eyes.
I want to write more, but my laptop is glitching at me writing so much for some reason, so this will do for now.
You may be thinking that okay, this isn't that bad. Granted it's pretty rude, but he's expressing his opinion about music, right? Wrong. The 'I want to slit my wrists' music is what he uses to cover all rock and metal music (today's music was mostly Blink-182 and Green Day, I think). Okay, so I'll accept that there is music out there about self harm and suicide. But not all music from one particular genre is the same. And the songs that are about self harm and suicide usually aren't promoting them (I can't think of one that is). I'll let him off for saying that to me because he doesn't know what I'm dealing with, but he shouldn't really be saying that to anyone.
Usually I would just try to ignore his comments, but I've had enough. He's also made misogynistic comments in the past, alongside many other offensive ones, and I've had enough. I have got some music about self harm and suicide, but not promoting it, and tomorrow I shall *hopefully calmly* explain why he can't dismiss music like that and also that it's not smurf well acceptable to make comments like that (okay, maybe not so calmly then). But I'm not stopping there. I'm going to make a stand about people's attitudes towards issues like self harm and suicide while I'm at it. I'm fed up of people making jokes, like planning on calling the Samaritans each day "just for a laugh", the vandalism on a poster about mental illness saying "who cares?", people who draw lines on their skin and when asked say things like, "oh, I cut myself; hah, I'm joking, I'm not an emo freak". It's time someone opened their eyes.
I want to write more, but my laptop is glitching at me writing so much for some reason, so this will do for now.