So, I'm running late, getting ready for work, and as I brush my teeth, I'm thinking of Dan Savage's "It Gets Better" youtube video project, where GLTBQ people post videos telling GLBTQ youth that it will get better, to help prevent suicide.
I was debating whether I would want to particpate, since I did indeed have my own suicidal impulses when I was a teen. However, my feelings weren't about being bullied, or about being queer, specifically, but about being too 'different,' and recognizing that for me, my body size was more influential in my negative feelings about difference than my sexuality was. So, I wondered:
Perhaps it is in bad tast to jump on Dan's project, but could we start a "It Gets Better" youtube project for fat youth? What do you all think?
I was debating whether I would want to particpate, since I did indeed have my own suicidal impulses when I was a teen. However, my feelings weren't about being bullied, or about being queer, specifically, but about being too 'different,' and recognizing that for me, my body size was more influential in my negative feelings about difference than my sexuality was. So, I wondered:
Perhaps it is in bad tast to jump on Dan's project, but could we start a "It Gets Better" youtube project for fat youth? What do you all think?
