Drama llama update

[essentialsaltes]

I had hoped this would've been a better solution, but the student-organized prom apparently had just 9 attendees.

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[essentialsaltes.livejournal.com]

Oh sure, the public hereabouts has rendered a verdict, but the sentiment is by no means universal.

Hanging out on a Christian forum, I get some insight into life east of the 5.

"no one is happy with anyone who stirs the pot."

"Especially high school kids who have been looking forward to their senior prom [just] as long as Ms. McMillan. Maybe she will learn it's not always only about what she wants. It is important to consider others in these types of situations."

"It was the attention and interruption of the prom and the end of their high school life that the other students didn't like from what I've read. She failed to consider what the lawsuit would do to the other students and she found out that not all of them were happy with the way things went."

To which someone replied with something I wish I had said (though, of course, I'm banned from discussing homosexuality there):

"Don't you hate how minorities always fail to consider the convenience of the majority when they ask for such frivolous things as ... being treated equally?"

[ono-sendai.livejournal.com]

Well, yeah, but you can go to stormfront and find a whole lot worse. There are lots of websites of crazy people, but they still make up a minority overall. Trust me, I'm aware of the variety and profligation of horrible people with crazy opinions. I mean, I've even been told in no uncertain terms in person that I both don't deserve to exist and that killing me would be justifiable, cause I'm an Israeli. You just have to bank on common human decency, which while pretty tenuous has more or less worked, even in the vast and strange Midwest (which I find myself in currently, although I think of Michigan as 50% Canada, anyway).

Basically, acknowledge the problem, work toward a solution, but don't have a cow, man. While it sometimes seems that the world is going crazy, due to a lot of crazy people shouting all the time, I think most Americans may be (unfortunately) ill-informed, but they aren't batshit nuts. Here's hoping, anyways. :)