Not Feeling very Forgiving
Jun. 14th, 2011 01:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sparkindarknessNot only am I not a big fan of non-pologies, I'm also very much not a big fan of ridiculous and insulting gestures to prove “regret” (or, more likely, to repair their damaged PR). And I'm even less of a fan of the huge coverage this crap gets. My twitter feed at the moment is chock full of empty gestures. Honestly, I haven't seen someone promote this hard when they have books or albums out! All aboard the pointless apology tour!
I loathe the homophobic arseholes who turn round and decide to make an It Gets Better video. Yeah because that hasn't been appropriated and abused by straight people enough, we need them to use it as their personal “mea culpa” method. I guess it beats homophobia rehab. You can't make a PSA telling people not to do what you've just done! It completely undermines it “hey, don't do this – but I don't really mean it and don't really care and it's not really important.”
You know, personally I think the only way I'd extend forgiveness is if you know the Doctor and can some how go back in time and shut your own fool mouth (and then present Tennant to me gift wrapped). However, there are certainly methods that are more likely to thaw my grudgesome self – and that is to actually make an effort and make your “amends” meaningful
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I loathe the homophobic arseholes who turn round and decide to make an It Gets Better video. Yeah because that hasn't been appropriated and abused by straight people enough, we need them to use it as their personal “mea culpa” method. I guess it beats homophobia rehab. You can't make a PSA telling people not to do what you've just done! It completely undermines it “hey, don't do this – but I don't really mean it and don't really care and it's not really important.”
You know, personally I think the only way I'd extend forgiveness is if you know the Doctor and can some how go back in time and shut your own fool mouth (and then present Tennant to me gift wrapped). However, there are certainly methods that are more likely to thaw my grudgesome self – and that is to actually make an effort and make your “amends” meaningful
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