seriously?

[rm]

Did I really get hassled about my gender identity on the subway this morning by two junior high kids watching porn on a portable DVD player?????

Yes. Yes I did.

Comments

[newsbean.livejournal.com]

We are living in the fucking future. PORN ON A PORTABLE DVD PLAYER. It is not everything I was promised.

[liminalia.livejournal.com]

And your response to them was?

[rm.livejournal.com]

One of them was wearing a lanyard with his school ID on it. So I wrote an email to the school.

Also, death glare.

[liminalia.livejournal.com]

Serves the little bastard right. I did much the same thing once--a carful of jocks from my daughter's high school, coming back from lunch, just randomly pulled up next to me at a stoplight and yelled, "Hey, fuck you, bitch!" (I didn't know them, nor they, me.) So I followed them back to school and pointed them out to the Asst. Principal who was standing by the door.

[brewsternorth.livejournal.com]

Ugh. Gotta love technology sometimes.

[sykii.livejournal.com]

Welcome to the future. Have you noticed how it sucks?

[rm.livejournal.com]

I WAS PROMISED FLYING CARS.

[mithrigil.livejournal.com]

What the flipping shit, Junior High. That should be far too young for me to wish that their lives be made inordinately more difficult.

[booknerdguru.livejournal.com]

THIS

[sykii.livejournal.com]

And instead we got Project Ginger. I was supposed to be Molly by now!

[humascot97.livejournal.com]

AND JETPACKS!

[rm.livejournal.com]

Right! I know..... *sigh*

I was actually feeling nostalgic about all that the other day. Weirdly enough. Oh, I have a terrible small world theater story to tell you off LJ!

[thornsilver]

That's one of those words fail me moments. *shakes head* Youth these days! :(

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

Actually, if you have a quarter million dollars, you can have one. (Or rather, get on the waiting list.)

http://www.terrafugia.com/

[filkerdave.livejournal.com]

And silver suits!

[filkerdave.livejournal.com]

(o.O)

[missysedai.livejournal.com]

Ah, yes. Living in the future has brought us so much

progress

, yes?

Their parents must be so proud.

[eac.livejournal.com]

Are you kidding me? I'm sorry.

(also, the first thing I thought was...let's amend Dan Savage's campaign to "it gets better, mostly.")

[bethynyc.livejournal.com]

YES! WHERE ARE THEY???

[bitsyrant.livejournal.com]

The more things change...

Junior high is that age bracket where anyone who fits comfortably in a box (or is trying desperately to, anyway) assumes that the world is simple, and that they've got it all figured out. Anything that deviates from those assumptions is met with scorn and derision because, boo!, it's scary, thinking, innit?

[rm.livejournal.com]

I mean, I was a huge, huge asshole when I was 13, and probably regularly offended people on public transit by talking about the glamorous life I was only pretending to have, but porn?????? and "Is that a boy or a girl?" and trying to look at my crotch from all discernible angles to figure it out?????? I was NEVER that much of an asshole.

[bitsyrant.livejournal.com]

The watching porn on public transit is a bit beyond my ken, too but, sadly, finding the most egregiously horrifying way to cut another person down to size? That's where I lived at that age and I was far from the worst.

I remember when I was in 7th grade, our Homeroom/English teacher had what, at the time, seemed like a hilariously large, clown shoe of an ass. All us young gentlemen used to take turns distracting her so, when she turned around, those she was facing away from could take turns throwing spitballs at her butt, pretending to measure it with our hands, fake smack it, and a host of other things I won't repeat. The point is junior high kids, especially boys, are the biggest assholes and body shaming is not uncommonly the torment du jour.

It would be nice if the much heralded future showed the promise of changing from that but, sadly, I think it's the human standard from here to eternity.

[rm.livejournal.com]

I'm inclined to agree (that we're just assholes, particularly at 13). Certainly, there was little that went on at Hewitt that was overt in that way, but the internecine cruelties of girls can be pretty stunning, they're just a bit more veiled, or at least constructed far more strongly around the idea of multiple untrustworthy factions all behaving badly.

[lawnrrd]

At least your flying car, when it comes, will be outfitted with a DVD player so your passengers can watch porn.

[brithistorian.livejournal.com]

And robot maids! And food in pill form!