menace to society

[jwgh]

Hey, here's a poll brought about by thinking about certain things too much!

[Poll #707665]

Comments

[stumpsforhands.livejournal.com]

I'm an atheist, and while I don't necessarily meet with prejudice for that on a regular basis, I know there are hundreds of thousands, even millions of other Americans who would hate me immediately for my godlessness. It sort of makes me sick.

[cgoldfish.livejournal.com]

first: i am female
secondly: i am athiest
thirdly: i am both gay and not gay
fourthly: i am jewish


all in all - many people hate many aspects of me. some people hate all.

[christychristy.livejournal.com]

Most people are probably beyond someone's/some group's pale.

Bah, humbug

[palecur.livejournal.com]

I answered 'no.' I think it's because I interpreted your question too narrowly. I think, taken more broadly, anyone could answer 'yes', and that seemed somewhat not-useful. I suppose some folks would in fact object to my Catholic-inflected lowercase-p indifferent paganism, substantial fraction of aboriginal ancestry, and general lack of concern over people's romantic plumbing arrangements, but I don't consider them 'substantial' or that they generally impinge on my life in any way, so it didn't seem to really fulfill the spirit behind 'a lot of people'. In general, I don't feel a lot of need to go out of my way to find new and exciting ways to label myself oppressed or a victim, and the question does kind of come off as requesting such.

[pootrootbeer.livejournal.com]

I was going to answer "no" until I remembered about that survey, and thought of all the people who would stop trusting me if they knew I didn't belong to a church.

[littleamerica.livejournal.com]

At the risk of sounding nit-picky, I think "American society" is a quasi-consensus reality that we choose to believe in when in traffic, participating in a federal exercise like voting or paying taxes, and while watching/reading/hearing the news, but treat with some mixture of contempt and neglect most of the rest of the time.

On the other hand, I may believe this mostly because I live in Santa Fe.

Second, by "a lot" do you mean "a majority?" One per cent of the current census projection is something like three million people; that qualifies as a lot of people in my book, but the opinion of one percent of the population doesn't usually matter in modern America unless they're highly vocal, highly visible, or highly motivated.

[peachcrush.livejournal.com]

I answered "no" thinking "Everyone loves me!"

But then remembered that I'm a fag and make baby jesus cry. :( :(