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and it's not like it's that great a challenge
Gentlemen.
Where in Canberra can a man go where his hair is respected?
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I didn't really know what to make of that. I have no excuse to want equality between people? Would you be saying that if I advocated the rights of coloured people? Or Catholics? This is in a school where as part of our ethics unit, we are taught that the Catechism of the Catholic Church says that homosexuals have to be treated with compassion. Yet every act at this school goes against it - as I discovered after relentless bullying because I tried to be compassionate.
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I've tried a lot of different tactics on how to cope with it. By this point, even my friends just want everything to disappear. But I really don't want to suppress who I am - a damn proud faghag - just because my peers have found a new, more subtle form of homophobia to pour all their hatred into. I'm just wondering, if you as gays were at my school, would you want me to back down?
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I had typed up a post, then i read down a bit and saw that this was more or less if not precisely what i had said x_x Getting called a "Faggot" makes me feel like crap but I find "fag" endearing when friends call me it. It depends who says it and the implications of the term at the time its said.
I spent about half an hour ranting to Chris about the semantic intricacy of label-terms for femininity and attraction. He laughed at me. He also thinks I'm a lipstick bulldyke.
