quidam-noire:

Can we PLEASE STOP THIS SHIT.

I mean seriously. You should all be ashamed of yourselves for turning the crisis of teenage suicide into a trendy note-hungry opportunity to be a pseudo-humanitarians. NO. Stop. None of us need to reblog this shit. Yes, it will make my blog ugly because it’s TRIGGERING and trivializes what suicidal people go through. How fucking dare any of you use mental illness as a fucking meme and flood the dashboards of suicidal people with these poorly constructed posts!

FACKING STOP.

Whoa whoa whoa, no, that sure as hell is not why I reblogged it.  The GLBT community is something I care deeply about, something I’m part of (which I assume everyone on my blog knows).  I’m not going to sit here and say that, sure, some people might reblog/heart something just to sound like they care, or because it has a lot of notes, but that’s certainly NOT the case with me reblogging it.  

Whether you think this shouldn’t be spread around or not is fine, but don’t assume that everyone who clicks that reblog button is trying to trivialize the issue.  This is a serious issue, and I for one feel like it needs to be shown.  We can talk about how serious bullying is until we’re blue in the face, but this post is one of the most effective post on the subject that I’ve seen.  Clearly, someone made this post to make a point, and I’d like to think that 500,000+ notes means that that many people agree.

As for mental illness, I’m not sure what the “mental illness” is here.  This is a kid getting hate for being gay, which I certainly hope that is not the “mental illness” you’re referring to otherwise you should unfollow me right now.  As for suicide, the point of this post is to show what those hurtful words can do, and it is something that happens.  I knew a kid in 7th grade who wrote us all a letter after he moved away, about being TERRIFIED about being gay, he thought he had some sort of disease, and was desperately trying to figure out how to “fix” it.  There are kids who feel like that, who get hate, and feel like the only solution is suicide.  I never heard back from that kid again, I have no idea what happened to him.  Back then, there weren’t a bunch of support groups to turn to, or posts like this for people to see that, hey guess what, your fucking words hurt.  Do you really want to take responsibility for an outcome like this?  

So no, not all of us reblog to be “trendy” and the fact that you even think that of me… no, just no.