MissMarsya: My Straightedge

marsyagusman:

Let me start off by letting everyone who reads this understand, this is my personal view of sXe. It has become tiresome hearing about peoples and society’s contorted views of sXe. So hopefully this will clear-up a few misconceptions. I’d first like to thank those of you who have sXe ass-backwards and do such a terrible job representing what sXe is. I’d also like to thank those of you that have become quick to judge sXe without any real knowledge or research. Those of you who have “resourced” the media and have heard friends of friends of friends stories, and have passed judgment on sXe, thank you. Thanks to those of you that have refused to try and understand sXe, yet in the same breath make an opinion on sXe. Thanks to those of you who have disrespected or mocked sXe. Thanks for putting sXe down and trying to “witch hunt” sXe so to speak. You have all made my sXe stronger with every passing day. I will begin speaking about sXe, because I am so passionate about sXe, and so given in to sXe that I must be at least bound for the heart of sXe, if not already there….

• sXe isn’t about a specific age, race, religion, gender, location, diet, scene, haircut, style of music, or style of dress. sXe is not about a label or “gang”. Contrary to popular ignorance, it has no race or ethnocentric requirements, and while there are many unfair elitist connotations abounding.

• I believe that sXe is an individual choice with individual, (for the most part, save for the very basic essentials), circumstances. sXe is so much more than not drinking, not doing drugs, and not having promiscuous sex. sXe is not violent, yet like a mother fending her children.

• sXe is proud and strong, and will fight for what is right. sXe is finding out who you really are, and living a positive, non-judgmental lifestyle. sXe is about taking the entire negative in one’s life and the world, and somehow “making good” of it. sXe is about personal empowerment and purification. 

• sXe is about walking uncharted territory, spilling and screaming what is inside your heart and moral code like blood, as paint is to decorate the glorious warhorse that your life becomes when accepting sXe. sXe is not innately about rebellion, while in the same breath; sXe surely is not about belonging to any temporary and superficial group or circle of friends.

• sXe is a lasting and ever-growing wind of change bursting forth, breathing from your lungs, a weapon working in tandem and in symbiosis with your heart and mind and soul. sXe is spiritual. sXe is not just about the music or the concerts or the friends. sXe is not about being different or being the same. sXe is for you, for the better and the good of the world, for putting into perspective what is right and wrong, true and false, clean and unclean. sXe is always. sXe is then, now, and tomorrow. Forever…..

To those that demean and attempt to personally homestead sXe with elitist ideals, passing trends and bullshit notions, to those that claim sXe to belong or to simply rebel against something, anything, to those that question sXe and deride it, attempt to incite it or destroy it; all I can say is you have resolutions to make, issues to resolve, and thoughts to peruse. Before and after your marauding indictments, this one real truth and choice will remain. I am sXe…..

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