Actually, I do watch Boston Public. I love it. I've watched it from the first episode, and haven't missed a single one.
As for the topic... I'm not entirely sure what my opinion is on it. I can understand the 'making it their own word' thing... I've certainly done that as a defense mechanism thing before. "Your clothes clash, you look like a freak!" "Thank you!" Or like being called a nerd/geek. Or on occasion, more personal matters that I've faced hatred/discrimination over... it works when it's based on mostly superficial stuff, like clothes and likes/dislikes... but on stuff you can't change, you can only pretend to not care. And you can only pretend for so long, before it gets to you... I haven't really faced that much discrimination. Really only from one person I used to know, who it later turned out was discriminating me because she was in denial about the part of herself that was the same. Still, it's enough that discrimination should *not* be tolerated...
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Date: 2002-02-27 04:40 pm (UTC)As for the topic... I'm not entirely sure what my opinion is on it. I can understand the 'making it their own word' thing... I've certainly done that as a defense mechanism thing before. "Your clothes clash, you look like a freak!" "Thank you!" Or like being called a nerd/geek. Or on occasion, more personal matters that I've faced hatred/discrimination over... it works when it's based on mostly superficial stuff, like clothes and likes/dislikes... but on stuff you can't change, you can only pretend to not care. And you can only pretend for so long, before it gets to you...
I haven't really faced that much discrimination. Really only from one person I used to know, who it later turned out was discriminating me because she was in denial about the part of herself that was the same. Still, it's enough that discrimination should *not* be tolerated...
The word needs to go.