Re: I shouldn't hate being a pedo. (Emot. train wr

I have yet to lose a friend over the fact that I'm a hebephile, and most of them know about my feelings for teen girls. But I totally understand what it's like to lose a valued friendship.

I had it both ways in 2007. Good to be reminded that others lose them, too. I feel less inept, which sadly actually means a lot.

We value conformity to the norm too much, and though we claim to respect civil rights we only do so to groups whom it's politically correct to respect in such a manner.

True, normalcy still reigns. Even a group of goth kids with their dyed hair, black clothing, musical and artistic tastes are still conformist and exclusive. And they claim to be the counterculture!

Side note maybe: At one time, the net seemed (at least to me) to deliver a promise of expanding ones social circle, of kind os changing social norms. Nowadays, with LJ and MySpace, it seems just as clique-y as ever, if not more so. Kind of sad in a way, but tolerance can only be tolerated so much, I suppose.

So there is no need to hate yourself. I wouldn't even hate your friends who rejected you (though I'm sure that you don't). They didn't know any better.

Good comment about trying not to hate them. They are absolutely vibrant young women who are not at a loss for friends or excitement, even though they at times complain they are. Seems to me they are folks one can look up to. In certain ways, anyhow. Just not the pedo issue. I suppose we're all like that in a way. Some really great traits about us, some not so much. And we have to, to an extent live with the good and bad.