I don’t get why wanting to be accepted as who you are gets people who aren’t that way so angry. I mean the vast majority of the people on slap I’m guessing are over 18 because of the level of history most know on here. The sport is mainly made up of people under 18 tho, and for those who skate in anywhere not on the east coast/West Coast you have that whole honor culture thing going on with adolescence(if you all are actually interested go read up on honor cultures, it will teach you a lot, its what most misinformed people label as toxic masculinity, which is bullshit interpretation in every way). I’ve heard numerous kids at parks across the country openly hate on the gay skaters that come to the park, and in general believe gay people shouldn’t be apart of the culture or skate because gay people just make skateboarding look less mainly. last park I went to I actually heard a 16 year old scream at the top of his lungs all gay people should be killed, and he wasn’t being ironic. I’ve seen gay skaters get shamed not only at parks but within our own industry. If y’all want to be assholes to people, go fucking ahead, but know who you all basically seem like by association from even gauging the topic from a non-inviting perspective. gay people have it fucking rough in most places across the United States not on the coasts, so I can understand if those living in the coast bubbles have no fucking clue.
I don’t even feel as bad for gay skaters as I do for women skaters. If you have ever seen 4-5 women at a skatepark at once, listen to what people say sometime about them. Most of the time in my experience people generally say the best girl is the one that’s best looking, not the best skater, and then they try to back it up with oh but style. I can for a fact say that there are numerous male skaters who are ugly as fuck that have unbelievable style(McCrank, Silas, Mariano, etc.), and obviously you have the Dylans and BAs, but it’s not like male skaters are judged on how good they look, they are judged on how cool they look for lack of a better word.
Also people getting upset about using fucking pronouns or calling people what they want to be called fuck right off. You should treat people how you wanted to be treated, and I assume you want people to call you by your name instead of whitey or blackey or something more derogatory. How do people get upset of the pronoun thing so much? We as a culture recognized it was wrong to call black people the n word, and all types of other social advancements of our language. Our fucking society has advanced to a point where we just don’t do those things anymore, so anyone who thinks white people shouldnt say the n word yet get pissed about the pronoun game, again, can fuck right off.
I just don’t understand how a fucking culture of outcasts can dog on minorities so much. Smh. I mean I get how much the black race hates gay people far more then white people do(if you don’t believe me go look up prop 8 voter statistics on race for just a small example, again honor cultures). At the end of the day go treat people well, and get as many people stoked on skating because it just helps us all. It gives the industry more money, which helps promote the riders you want to be bumped to pro, and you never know who someone could become one da, maybe a BA, Elissa or the likes, and I sure as fuck bet everyone thinks skateboarding is better with them then without them.
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