Good for you. I think everyone needs to respect other people's choices in life, whether they agree with your own or not. Last week after work one of the newish girls came out to the pub and she's sXe (extending to veganism and no casual sex.) Most of the guys at work had never heard of straight edge and gave her quite a hard time, 'what do you do for fun then?' 'oh you poor thing,' etc. To be fair she is quite a joyless, humourless person (I once sent a jokey e-mail round about there being no milk left, and her response was 'use soya, it doesn't kill cows') but she came in for quite a lot of scrutiny and criticism over it -probably more than a drinker would if sat with a load of straight edgers. So while I object to people who preach, that would appear to have been the drinkers preaching wouldn't it?
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on 2008-05-25 09:19 am (UTC)Last week after work one of the newish girls came out to the pub and she's sXe (extending to veganism and no casual sex.) Most of the guys at work had never heard of straight edge and gave her quite a hard time, 'what do you do for fun then?' 'oh you poor thing,' etc. To be fair she is quite a joyless, humourless person (I once sent a jokey e-mail round about there being no milk left, and her response was 'use soya, it doesn't kill cows') but she came in for quite a lot of scrutiny and criticism over it -probably more than a drinker would if sat with a load of straight edgers.
So while I object to people who preach, that would appear to have been the drinkers preaching wouldn't it?