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⌈ Secret Post #2901 ⌋

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[Legally Blonde]

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[Mikey Way, My Chemical Romance]

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05. [ SPOILERS for American Horror Story: Murder House (season 1) ]

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06. [ SPOILERS for Into the Woods ]

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07. [ WARNING for non-con/rape ]

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08. [ WARNING for non-con/rape ]

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09. [ WARNING for genocide, etc ]

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10. [ WARNING for incest ]

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11. [ WARNING for abuse ]

[Begin Again]

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12. [ WARNING for suicide ]

[Starsky and Hutch]

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For general purposes, I'll probably all myself atheist. Unless I'm discussing religion, which really I don't often do.

I used to call myself agnostic for years, but then that didn't sit right. The I called myself an atheist for years, but somehow managed to find myself llumped together with the crowd that was like "huurrr durrr, stupid sheeple and their child-like brains for believing in God," and yeah, that's not me either. I will speak out against religious fanaticism or beliefs that are harmful to others - but I don't believe in demeaning people for having personal beliefs.

Unfortunately, I think with any group, there will be people who lump you in with the asshole extremists of those groups. I didn't identify as a feminist for years because the majority of my experience to that point had been with the TERFs and the type that would tell me that because I wore skirts, I was contributing to patriarchal oppression of women (yes, really, I had someone tell me this, people keep accusing me of making it up, and I wish that was the case). So, I didn't want to be associated with that. Then I got introduced to intersectional feminism and realized that was something I could get behind (of course, now if I say that, people assume I'm an SJW... can't win, I swear).

But, it's really true of any group. Polyamorous -- I've had people assume I'm Mormon and try to "rescue" me from an abusive life of polygamy. Pagan -- between the idiots telling me I'm going to hell and the idiots on the internet who mock paganism or insist we're all culturally appropriative assholes (I don't even worship any particular deity, ffs, pagan is just the best term for someone who practices magic and does Tarot and shit -- and the only reason I'm mentioning this is because it's the next day and less likely for someone to come a-mocking). Kinky -- OMG you must be abusive like Christian Grey! I could go on.

I mean, I understand not wanting to be lumped in, really. And please don't take this as me saying that you must call yourself an atheist, because, like I said above, I didn't call myself a feminist for years because I just did not have the spoons to deal with the BS. I just find that there are assholes out there that are more than willing to make fun of you or think you're a jerk because there's jerks in your *insert XYZ group*.

In short: People are assholes.

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