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Oh and that gif, one word: apocalypse. #levijohnstonjongosselin
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"You know Levi, you should really listen to Jon's advice. After all, he learned from the best: Michael Lohan. #levijohnstonjongosselin
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If you value your time, please please please click on the Aerobic Dance Competition with the three guys. It will change your life in about eighteen different ways. #aerobics
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I need to know what year this is from -- it seems much more recent than the original video, yes? I mean, are these competitions still happening? Are they broadcast on ESPN12? Are tickets sold to the public? WHAT IS THIS PLACE?? #aerobics
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I like that it includes a woman, "Olga." #aerobics
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1. Horror
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3. Trance #aerobics
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She was a bitch to the pageant directors (did you read those emails? They were crazy fucked-up spoiled entitled rude-as-a-motherfucker emails...to essentially her bosses). She was a bitch to gay people. She was a bitch to Larry King. And she was a bitch on The View. If it walks like a bitch and talks like a bitch... #carrieprejeanbitchy
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Carrie Prejean is not fighting for her life. She's fighting for her reputation and to be "heard". I personally do not think she has much to say other than how attacked she is, and therefore I don't see why she needs to keep going on TV and informing us about it.
Let me tell you about a little friend of mine who did fight for his life. His name was not Jesse, but that's what I'll call him. There will be dramapants and self-righteousness to follow, prepare cookies and juice for that part.
He was probably about 14 when he first got sexually assaulted. By an older man. He had promised Jesse a good relationship, blah blah blah, in order to keep Jesse's sexuality a secret.
That didn't happen.
Jesse was repeatedly assaulted by this man. He didn't come forward about it, because he was afraid of people's reactions and what they would do to him.
Of course, it got out. He was seen with the older guy too many times. Something was up. Rumors started. He started getting threatening notes. Weird shit was left in his locker at school. People stole his stuff, broke it, threw it at him, whatever. It was supposed to humiliate him.
At some point, it just got to be too much. He was probably 17, 18 years old. I don't remember. And that was when he tried to kill himself.
You can blame him if you want. You can say that "well, at least no one else attacked him," or some trite bullshit that makes it look as if Jesse decided to end it all just to spite people. But luckily for him, the telephone pole that he he smashed his car into didn't crush the car. Or him. He lived.
He was in ICU for ages. I don't really remember how long. I only knew him on the internet, but that doesn't make it less real for him and his family. It doesn't remove the pain from sexual assault. It doesn't stop his classmates from tormenting him.
He fought for his life. He won. Jesse is alive and isn't all that well, but he's alive.
Oh, and Hasselbeck? Jesse's not alone. He never was, and with people who believe that gay people are Less Than, he never will be. Prejean is not "fighting for her life". Jesse did, and luckily for him, he won. Because of bigotry, he had to face down a lot of shit and he made it out. He might not.
I just lost a friend of mine to suicide a few weeks ago. I didn't know her well, but I know why she did it - being trans is hard. Bigotry, the threat of violence, the discrimination, the constant fight for identity and sometimes, survival, overtakes us. Kelly is dead. Jesse is not. Some of us win that fight and some of us lose it.
Prejean is not fighting for her life. Prejean has no fucking clue how bad it could be. She lost her crown and her job. She's apparently still quite wealthy. She wrote a book. Her voice is heard. So fuck you, Hasselbeck. I know it's hard to lose things that are important to you, but she doesn't know discrimination. She is wallowing in privilege.
Come on, Prejean, spend a day in Jesse's shoes. Why don't you live Kelly's life, and tell me how you are attacked? Why don't you try out being one of us disgusting gays and let me know how it works out?
No love, just bitterness,
boxspelunker #carrieprejeanbitchy