There are too many statements made daily that are wafted into the air; no idea where they came from. I might be the biggest hypocrite mentioning this, but that doesn't make it right. Any form of fact/strongly-opinionated testimonial background will strengthen any claim. People subconsciously believe their word is verbal gold and can go without being justified and questioned. No. This is most apparent in simple conversations amongst friends or between family members. That's fine, whatever. I'm not saying that every statement made should be looked over and reviewed. However, there has been times when I've stink-eye'd my friends for saying something that was completely unjustified. Or when people turn Logic into fact = pains the heck out of me (which I'm also guilty of/another hypocrite moment).
For Example:
Everyone who knows me knows I'm a HUGE 'L Word' fan. My junior year when the television series was mentioned in class, this hormonal adolescent dweep had the nerve to say "It's about Lesbians; that shows nothing but girls kissing." I almost punched him in the face. No type of support for his opinion. Just pure ignorance.
And mentioning Lesbians, here's another thrown around aLL the time from people I've never even heard of. She looks stuck up... and Gay. Well, that's not fair. You mean you haven't shared one word with me, but your mind is made up. Can you fork over any evidence for such an assumption? Probably not. Nice judgment.
Last one: Most recently, my class argued that Lady GaGa wasn't trying to change any norm, especially batting for the fact that she's androgynous. Almost instantly, about 30 of them formed this colt against Lady Gaga but I felt like nobody could support the claim made against her. I'm super team Gaga after I saw a video she did with Terry Richardson and how she was fighting back against Congress on behalf of "Don't ask don't tell".. I should've spoke up more but I bit my tongue.
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