Reply #21: I think minorities need to be able to vent [View All]

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We are a minority. That's hard. It's difficult and frustrating and sometimes you need to vent to other members of your group. If you've got folks in real life, great. If you don't, why not the DU group that represents you?

I had a rant on neurotypicals in the disability group. Yes, it wasn't friendly, but when people give you lectures on your disability when they clearly don't even know what Asperger's syndrome is, then someone else thinks it's something a rock star made up to get out of a lawsuit (I think he chose it to get out of a lawsuit and didn't actually have it, but he didn't make it up), and then you get people insisting you phone when you can't . . . well, there comes a breaking point.

The same goes for nontheists. After you've been told for the thousandth time that you can't be moral without believing some boogeyman will punish you if you're bad by people who think it's OK to kill other beings for various reasons, oppress people for being born different, and let people starve because God must not like them if they're working hard but still poor, well, there's that breaking point again.

The minority groups on DU should be about support as much as activism because without support there is no activism. You don't have the energy for it.