Crutches.

Taken from Lena Chronicles #31
May 26, 2014
(8:19pm)

A 22 year old boy named Elliot Rogers killed seven people and injured many more because he was "constantly rejected and still a virgin". It is terrible and stupid. Here's the thing, I am a feminist. But not a feminist in the old sense, in the way where women are better than men. I am a feminist in what feminism is becoming. It's in the way that everyone is equal despite gender, race, or sexuality. It's horrible that things like the shootings in California still happen in the world. A lot of it is just ignorance, its people blinded in some way of seeing how the world actually works, to seeing the mistreatment of certain groups. I used to be like that. I am so different than what I used to be. I used to use religion as a crutch for bigotry. I used to be a horrible person; I used to care more about a the words written in a thousands of years old unscourced book more than the lives of real people. Give me the chance and I would have called a girl a slut, I would have judged her for dressing provactively. I used to abuse my own gender so much, placing expectations on others and on myself that were crippling. And I'm so glad I changed and I can now say things like "I'm pro-choice, I believe love is for everyone, I think the death penality is hypocritical, and I'm a feminist" without being weighed down by the guilt and wretchedness that some religion puts upon my beliefs. And I know I have so much more to learn and I can only hope I become better throughout it.

Fin.