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Feb. 28th, 2004 08:00 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
vicarzWait a double-edged minute. Remember that brouhaha about making fun of people who run around with ashes on their foreheads all day on ash Wednesday? I'm being not-so-scientific here, but if you will look at my stereotypical freak analysis of the complaints:
1. How has it become other people's job to sort which of the church's beliefs you profess vs. those that you don't? Do these same people get offended if they get called sluts for looking goth? Do they get offended by racial profiling in police stops or store security harassment? Do they whine about how guys in dresses get called gay? Isn't it a reasonable assertion that when you take on a mark to display your affiliation with a group that people will expect all or many of it's stances are your own?
2. Isn't being mocked something that helps you bear the burden of christ? Isn't the whole point to remember his suffering? Isn't complaining about being mocked belittling the suffering you're supposed to endure? Should you thank people that make you feel bad since that takes you closer to his kingdom? When your religion is one of the largest in this country and the world, why are you so think-skinned about criticism?
3. Compare the people who whine about being made fun of by their intolerant freaky friends for being mainstream religion to those that say you should be thicker-skinned about making fun of freaks and gays. I'm finding a lot of crossover. Anyone else notice that some of the loudest complainers of the mockery are also friends with people who do the most anti-goth trolling?
4. Do these same people show the same level of tolerance for vegetarians, who are engaging in what is arguably a form of religious belief? Or do they make a big deal of their most pro-animal cruelty because it's funny to mock those losers?
So, the people that say I should be thick skinned about being harassed by my CHOICE of being a freak, gay, goth, whatever now complain about how INDIRECTLY they are mocked by those of us that mock the catholic display.
1. How has it become other people's job to sort which of the church's beliefs you profess vs. those that you don't? Do these same people get offended if they get called sluts for looking goth? Do they get offended by racial profiling in police stops or store security harassment? Do they whine about how guys in dresses get called gay? Isn't it a reasonable assertion that when you take on a mark to display your affiliation with a group that people will expect all or many of it's stances are your own?
2. Isn't being mocked something that helps you bear the burden of christ? Isn't the whole point to remember his suffering? Isn't complaining about being mocked belittling the suffering you're supposed to endure? Should you thank people that make you feel bad since that takes you closer to his kingdom? When your religion is one of the largest in this country and the world, why are you so think-skinned about criticism?
3. Compare the people who whine about being made fun of by their intolerant freaky friends for being mainstream religion to those that say you should be thicker-skinned about making fun of freaks and gays. I'm finding a lot of crossover. Anyone else notice that some of the loudest complainers of the mockery are also friends with people who do the most anti-goth trolling?
4. Do these same people show the same level of tolerance for vegetarians, who are engaging in what is arguably a form of religious belief? Or do they make a big deal of their most pro-animal cruelty because it's funny to mock those losers?
So, the people that say I should be thick skinned about being harassed by my CHOICE of being a freak, gay, goth, whatever now complain about how INDIRECTLY they are mocked by those of us that mock the catholic display.
