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[hiddenmuse]

Dear LiveJournal communities on my friends list and some of their members:

Please get your heads out of your asses.

For the love of all that is remotely sacred, I think that epileptics can handle a question about sex, without someone whining about how their 16-year-old son reads this community, and the question is "inappropriate". Your son is 16, I'm sure he's heard about sex, climaxes and libido, in addition to seizures. Oh my god - your kid's gonna be scarred for life!!

As for you fanficrants, guess what, not all of us ranters/readers/writers are involved in the Anime/Yaoi genre. Some of us write stories involving *real people* - fictional and real-life characters. So, 90%+ of your rants mean nothing to me, so I don't respond. But, when the small percentage of us that write Everything Else post our rants/wanks - leave us to our devices and stop trying to rip us new orifices. Fuckers.

And misfitmormon, well, I won't even go there. Half the people on there are full of drama with a capital D-R-A-M-A. Of the remaining half, three quarters are pretty neutral, and one quarter are decent people that are relatively drama-free, no shit-stirring from them. I sometimes wonder if they didn't read the sign that said "MISFIT Mormon" - emphasis on the "Misfit" aspect. There are Mormons that admit to drinking tea/coffee/the occasional alcoholic beverage; a few that are admittedly Wiccan or Pagan; some, like me, that don't go to church anymore - but have family that do; and a lot of us have politics that are contrary to the church's decidedly right-wing stance.



Anyone else feeling the wrath of Assholes Gone Wild in their communities/friends lists?

Comments

[burninglotus.livejournal.com]

My experience in Misfit Mormons DID scar me for life. :) When I came out of the closet I was met with a lot of judgments, jeers and jackassery as well. It resulted in an article from the City Weekly here in SLC.

Read here:
http://www.slweekly.com/article.cfm/landofthemisfitmormons

[hiddenmuse.livejournal.com]

He's alive! *jumps up and gives you a hug*

That was a great article - thank you so much for sharing it!

As much as I tend to despise the MM community - Kellie has heard her fair share of my rants about it - it's how I'd met you and Ms. Cindy! :-D
So, maybe something good did actually come from it!

[annie-bean.livejournal.com]

haha, you rock, is there really a community called misfit mormons? i find that really funny, i live in utah and grew up with mormons, i bet they'd be tickled to read that..lol

[hiddenmuse.livejournal.com]

Yep - there sure is! It's a nice (most times) counter to all of the "OMG Being Mormon Is The Best Thing EVAR" comms - since there are people in Misfit Mormons that write entries about the pressure to marry and have 300,000 children; whether or not to get tattooed/pierced; is divorce okay, yadda yadda yadda.

I just don't bring up my sexuality, since that one is a serious hot-button issue that causes much debate and divisiveness. It's easier to discuss my plans/wishes to get pierced and/or inked than to say, "yeah, I like girls and boys, and I'm thisclose to being married to a girl". That's just all kinds of fucked-up.

[annie-bean.livejournal.com]

HAHA, i cracked up at the Google Sign in that communities user info with the Enron E, the majority of Mormons that I know are awesome, there are a couple that try to stuff the religion down my throat..and i want to tell them "i've lived in utah most of my adult life, if i wanted to join you,i would have,now please GO AWAY" but i have no balls..and well, i just dont.

Are you seriously this close to marrying a girl? I think thats so great!!! :D:D you could tell the drama mormons and watch their heads pop off..;-) (that wasreally mean..lol.sorry, i dont like seeing heads pop off)

[hiddenmuse.livejournal.com]

I'd say go for it - I see the missionaries on the buses around here, and they'll talk to everyone but me. I must give off some kind of "I used to be Mormon ... you can't fool me" vibe or something. I still like to say hello to them, just to throw them off.

And yes, I'm very, very close to making an honest woman of my longtime (5+ years) girlfriend. Just need to sign the papers and get the rings! :)

Oh believe me, I'm so ready to post "I've just gotten married. To a woman. Fuck off and die, jackasses."

[neurotic-one.livejournal.com]

Ah, the joy that is MM! /sarcasm

It's really a shame it's not more of a welcoming place. Sometimes I feel more accepted by people outside of my own faith, which is a shame really.

[hiddenmuse.livejournal.com]

Exactly - and I've found that non-Mormons are far more accepting, and have a better sense of humor, than most I'd known/grown up with.

It always kills me to go home at Christmas, and have people make comments about San Francisco and/or California being the land of crazy people; and having people I grew up with looking at me like, "bitch ... why aren't you married with 15 kids like us?"

[verselus.livejournal.com]

I have a friend on my lj who is going through a bit of a hard time right now in her life, but she refuses to do anything about it and just cries in her lj once a week about her life sucking. The truth is her life doesn't suck and there's a lot of good in it, but she just refuses to see it. So she puts the weight of the world on her shoulders and blames all of the world problems on herself. I finally gave her a bit of tough love and said look, you need to get yourself out of this funk and realize that people make mistakes and it's okay. Everybody loves you for who you are and these things aren't your fault. Then her fiance sent me a message saying I was harsh on her. So I've given up on the situation.

Anyways, yeah, I feel your pain. :\

[hiddenmuse.livejournal.com]

Wow - that's really crappy. You're trying to do what you can, to help her out - and then her fiance comes around and pretty much tells you that you suck. Jackass.

*hugs* Right now people suck.

[verselus.livejournal.com]

What's even worse is the whole group of us used to be best friends in high school. Talk about growing apart. :\

[bruiseblue.livejournal.com]

I had to drop out of several wedding planning communities, because I was constantly being told what to do, how to do it, and how my wedding was stupid...

which might've helped, if they weren't espousing traditions that I find morally objectionable, were from the deep south, or involved being 18 years old.

gah.

[hiddenmuse.livejournal.com]

Ouch ... that really sucks!

Yet, I have this perverse curiosity to see them, just so I can laugh at the people running through the communities!