A copy.

This is a copy of what my boyfriend wrote in his blog. We're not big on blogging, but we do appreciate the fact that there's on place where we're both abled to speak our mind without getting shot. I completely agree with what he had said. I adore him for it. And this would definitely mean that we need to find our own path.

I'm just a box in a cage...


I'll start this off by letting you all know that I no longer have internet access at home.. not even in the Rec Room. I'm totally isolated. Hooray?
That said, here's a rant/whatever I typed this mornin'.

Before I even get started, I should warn you. If you're easily offended by anything remotely similar to racism, anything that sounds vaguely like racism, racial profiling, stereotyping, blanket statements, or "grouping" (somethimg similar to the previous two, but still somehow different), please do us both a favor, and don't read this.
Or, if you like being offended, at least have the common courtesty not to send me messages, bitching at me for stating an opinion.. because you know I'm not gonna listen. :)

(And if this sounds rambling and disjointed, I appologize. Most of this came to mind at 2 in the morning, when I was tired but still couldn't sleep, and now it's 7 in the morning, I'm running on two hours of sleep, give or take. Also, my grasp of history is tenuous at best.)

This is aimed at us "caucasians" who can trace our lineage back at least four generations, in this country. If you can't, this doesn't apply to you, and you shouldn't get offended or anything.
I have stumbled across the phrase "generic American". In this bass-ackwards, politically correct country, where we have to make up whole new phrases and groups for all the different ethnic groups (to keep from offending anyone, god forbid that happen); ie: Asian-Americans, African-Americans, Latin-Americans, and even Hispanic-Americans, (not to mention Mexican-Americans, who currently populate half or more of this great state), there seem to be plenty of racially-specific terms/words/phrases.. and I don't just mean the derogatory ones (We'll touch on that later.)
Maybe it's because I'm part of this group, but there don't seem to be too many phrases to describe us. None that aren't blatantly derogatory, that is.
(Sure, there's the stereotypes you see in movies.. again, that's later)

Also, I hate how black people call eachother "nigga" and crap like that, but we're mortified at the thought of using such language. Grow up, you fuckers. Slavery has been dead for a hundred years, except in the case of marriage. I know there are still white-supremacists and racists out there; I know a few of them. Niggers come in all colors, the way I see it. And remember, it wasn't just the white people catching the wild negroes and enslaving them. It was their own people. Their own people! Catching them and selling to the white people. So don't give me that bullshit.

Anyway, back to what I was getting at.. A lot of us "white" folks can trace our heritage here in the US back as far as the 1600s, when the group of prudes.. I mean pilgrims.. came over from England/wherever. Not to mention the Dutch. Some of us can trace it back only as far as the 1800s, when the puhtater famine was going on, and Scottish/Irish immigrants started flooding over here. Some of them being potato farmers, some horse theives, coming over to escape a hangin'..
I myself know that somewhere along the lines, I'm related to a horse thief, as well as the somewhat-famous writer, Laura Ingles Wilder. For those of you who don't recognize the name (shame on you), she wrote the Little House on the Prairie books, upon which the TV show was based. I think one of the Wilders was in the show, but I don't know (or care).
I've been told that somewhere in my family "tree", one can find German, British, Dutch, possibly Polish (which explains some things), Italian, and maybe even some French. Not a whole lot, though, since every male member of my family that I know of has fought in a war, defending this country.
You look at my dad, grandpa, and even my younger sister, and you can see the German; blonde hair, blue eyes, and the obviously German nose. Might be where I got mine from.
Also, a large part of my lineage comes not from tater farmers or famous writers, but the Native Americans who were uprooted and slaughtered by the Western Europeans who came over here. So basically, I'm allowed to say whatever I want about the different races and racial terms here. :) You're all foreigners.

I'd say maybe it's time for the few remaining Native Americans to stop with that whole "White man killed all the buffalo, then hunted my people to the brink of extinction" thing, but.. well, there aren't many left, and the bloodlines are so diluted (possibly from the white men raping the Indian women), so.. I'll let them continue.
That whole "manifest destiny" crap was a bitch on their way of life, I'd say we still owe 'em.

I've just discovered that my mom's cat likes Pringles. Odd.



One thing I really hate about people in this country is how they like to be labeled.. bound by stereotypes and little "cliques" they can fit into.
It's bad enough with stupid television, portraying white people as either being the uptight, white-collar business man, (or a low-brow, blue-collar inbred), the white kid who tries (way too hard) to be black, the "goth" kid, whiny and self-indulgent, with all that mascara/eye-liner, or the braindead, college-prep student (either the stupid team-slut cheerleader type or the stupid, aggressive, chauvanist sports-jock), or the socially-inept computer/video-game nerd. Sounds like the cast for another teen movie, eh? Go figure.

Some time in the past, a friend of mine stated her desire to become Wiccan. This surprised me, because she's got enough common sense that she doesn't need a little group to belong to, or a religion to help her deal with life. (Get real, kids. Thumping the bible doesn't do you any good.. really.)
I asked her why, and she said she wanted to belong to a group.. to feel a sense of belonging. I thought "Ya silly girl, you belong to me." But I digress. (I'm good at it)

I understood that she wanted to feel like she belonged, and I know what a comfort that can be, but in the long run, I don't see that it really does any good. The way I see it, religions and those little groups don't help you deal with real life, they only shelter you from it. Granted, that seems to be what most people want.. they don't want to deal with life, they only want to be sheltered. I still don't understand the whole emo-goth "culture".. To me, it's really just another strange way of behaving and dressing. At first, I thought people did that to set themselves apart.. since that's what most of them claimed.. but I've seen that it doesn't set you apart, it makes you like everyone else.
I just wish all those people would stop deluding themselves into thinking it makes them unique. It's like a form of denial, I swear.
Fuckers.

Anyway, I guess that's enough of my ranting. For now. *shakes my fist*