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It doesn't bother me that people make fun of me and belittle me. I.e. yesterday, for halloween, the seniors dress up for halloween. I wasnt there because I was suspended. But alot of the people, mostly alot younger than me, that stand up and defend me said there were a bunch of the redneck/preps dressed in shirts with proud to be pagan, I love lucifer and a bunch of "Hello, my name is: (rebel,pagan,666,evil,ect.)" tags on. I wore an Proud to be Pagan shirt to school once and they were all making fun of me. One of the boys even dressed up as a chick. And that does not bother me at all. Like I told my mom when I found out "It only reinforces my opinion that preps are stupid." And I dont even believe that totally. Im actually cool with alot of the preps, its mostly just that group of idiotic, immature boys. And Im happy they have nothing better to do with their lives than to think up elaborate ways to make fun of me. From my experience, Im the center of their world.
What bothers me most about the discrimination in my school (I live on the bible belt as well, yay) is the administration. I can no longer participate on the internet at school. The computer nazi says that it was because of profane language, but when I went to talk to her the first day she turned it off she started yelling at me about how its her right not to let me on those sites and how shes a good christian lady and crap. All I ever did on the net was surf pagan and gothic forums, and read up on dress-code laws on the aclu website.
Being upset because people were making fun of me for dressing outside the mainstream would be quite comical. But thats not what Im upset about. Just because I dont dress like everybody else doesnt make me any less of a person, and it doesnt mean I have fewer rights. Im still a human being, I just think and dress differently, thats it.
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