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Sorry. I just get REALLY sick of people referring to "society" like it's some concrete object. It isn't. Society doesn't exist. It's just an abstract concept to describe a collection of individual human beings, coexisting in some manner.
Blanket blaming of "society" screams of victim mentality and disempowerment. Society is what you make it. Society owes you nothing. Society doesn't shape you as much as you shape it. You are your society. When you enter it, a society is consequencially imperfect.
I wish people would start owning themselves. Realising the power they have over their emotions, their happiness, their society. I see so many people who look to "them" and "they" as the reason for, and solution to, their problems.
"Society shapes your sexuality". Bollocks. I shaped it. I chose what morals to adhere to. No matter who else follows them, they are MY morals.
[ 02-21-2004, 12:54 AM: Message edited by: Yorick ]
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