Your Life Wasn’t Promising and Nobody Cares

Every time some angsty teenager kills him or herself because he or she was “bullied” you get a chorus of assholes all across the country whining about the loss of another precious, “promising life.”

Chances are the dead angsty teenager was not promising.  Chances are the teenager would have gone on to waste $100,000 studying poetry at a half-rate university and wasting his or her 20s and possibly 30s “finding themselves” working a variety of useless air-conditioned office jobs, riding a casual dating-and-sex carousel and paying for a smart phone they don’t need.

Chances are the dead angsty teenager was just like everybody else.  An interchangeable cog in the culture machine who nobody will remember after they’re dead.  The only people their deaths affect are their family and numbered friends.

Why the fuck am I reading about it in the national news?  Why the fuck is Lady Gaga mouthing off about it?

Well, apparently when a teenager is gay and can’t take the bullying and kills himself it’s a national event.  To me, it smacks of natural selection.  Regardless of how hard the pro-gay voice screams about tolerance our culture fights back where it matters – in the kids.  Teenagers are bulling kids because they’re gay, despite the fact that the pro-gay tolerance movement has been screaming at them not to hate gays since they were born.  What does that tell you?  It tells you that young people, in numbers significant enough to inspire a gay teen to kill himself, reject gay tolerance because it’s dangerous and many of us instinctually know it regardless of how much brainwashing we’re subjected to by the schools and Lady Gaga.

Don’t get me wrong.  I’m not happy that any teenagers, gay or otherwise, are killing themselves because of bullying.  But I’m also not shedding any tears.  Like I said, it’s just another gay kid who couldn’t handle being different.  You know why this happened?

Because of this pro-gay bullshit.  How many teenagers were killing themselves two generations ago when homosexuality is not something that anyone talked about publicly much less acknowledged as an acceptable lifestyle?  I’ll tell you: not many.

You know why?  Because gay teenagers in high school kept it to their goddamned selves.  Nobody knew.  They weren’t forcing everyone around them to acknowledge and validate their gayness by being openly gay.  Therefore, nobody bullied them.

Look, there’s always going to be those kids in school who bully weaker kids, and they’ll find a reason.  It used to be things like being short, being bad at sports, being in the AV club, and so on.  Nowadays thanks to this pro-gay pro-tolerance crap in schools where administrators mistakenly advise young people to be “true to themselves” and “confident” etc. openly gay kids are just opening themselves to being tormented by the bullies.

This is another example of the folly of these political correctness assholes who are trying to steer our culture into the muddied waters of anything-goes.  They believe they can create a world where everbody tolerates everything that everybody does and that bullies will go away if only the administrators suspend them enough.  Since they’ve been trying without success for the last 40 years they’re resorting to extremism such as suspending a 6 year-old boy for sexual harrasment because he punched another kid in the nuts.

Of  course they’ve failed, and the only thing tolerance has done is encourage gay kids to be openly gay and then get bullied to the point where they killed themselves.

I went to high school with a guy who came out as gay during our senior year.  He never got bullied for being gay.  You know why?  Because he kept it to himself.  Nobody knew.  He apparently also had at least one boyfriend that everybody found out about who also kept it to himself.  By the time he came out we were all 17 or 18.  We were mature enough not to feel the need to bully this kid for being gay.  I was friends with/kind of dated a girl who apparently knew that he was gay before he officially came out.  She told me that when she found out she asked him if he was going to come out.  He said no, and she asked why.  He told her that there was no good reason.  The only result, he said, would be homophobic assholes giving him a hard time.  He said he didn’t feel the need to make an issue out of it so it was easier if nobody knew.

Voila.  If only everybody thought like that, I bet we would see the number of gay teens killing themselves over bullying drop way down.

As usual, the gay tolerance movement has caused more harm than good thanks to their own goddamned hubris, thinking they can make everyone hold hands and sing about how much we all love and tolerate each other’s life choices.

Here’s an analogy.  Lions don’t eat bushes.  You want to get through the savannah so you wear a clever bush disguise and the lions never see you.  It’s worked for you before.  Now the park ranger tells you that he’s had a heart-to-heart talk with the lions and made them promise that they won’t eat you, so you don’t need to wear your bush disguise anymore – you should stroll right through, loud and proud.  Then the one lion who didn’t listen to the park ranger eats you.  The park ranger gives the lion a very stern talking to.  He might even shoot the lion who ate you.  But you don’t really give a shit because you’re already long dead, eaten, and digested.

I know that my son might not want to tell me that he is gay when he is old enough to realize that he is gay.  I am going to preempt these problems by having a conversation with him, all hypothetically of course, about how no good will come of coming out of the closet while you’re still in school because kids are immature and a gang of bullies might decide to pick on the queer kid and make their life a living hell, and that being out and gay doesn’t do one goddamned bit of good.  You’re not proving anything, you’re not “raising awareness”, you’re not “spreading tolerance”, you’re just putting your neck on the butcher’s block and hoping nobody takes a knife to it.  If my son is gay I’m going to advise him to keep it to himself until he is an adult and not to move to rednecky places where a bunch of drunk white trash might decide it would be fun to drag the queer for a while behind their pickup truck.  It’s one thing to disapprove of gay lifestyles.  It’s quite another to decide to kill people of whose lifestyles you don’t approve.

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