the one thing i am having a hard time with figuring out right now is how someone can get onto a stage and talking about unity within a scene and how we're the lifeline of keeping a community going and that hate only separates us, yet they can continue to dislike someone/s for whatever reason. I am a firm believer in saying what you mean, and meaning what you say in situations like that. you cannot preach about something unless you firmly believe in it, especially when you are on a stage in front of however many people. this isn't calling any specific person out. that is by no means my intention. i just want some light shed on the situation. i understand that sometimes people can say things about someone in a moment of anger or whatever other emotion, and later retract that statement and mend that bridge, but in terms of someone addressing a room as a whole, saying it is time to move on from the hate and become a family again, but yet they are one of the driving forces in the segregation just does not make sense. i have this stupid mindset of world peace and everyone just getting along, but not by any means everyone being each others best friends. hardcore over the past 6 years has grown to mean so much to me, and whatever about being disliked, i could not care less. I will still be at every show when i can, broke or not, doing my best to support what i believe in and has become a driving force in my life. i know i'm young and i haven't put in my 10 years or whatever it is, but i've gained some of the best people in my life from hardcore. I wish that some day women would no longer be objects and looked at as sluts/whores/skanks for whatever reason they are. sex is natural, and chances are there is so much more to situations that no one knows. passing judgement doesn't make you any better than someone, even in a joking matter, something else i am guilty of. i'm taking it one day at a time to become a better person, and i think with a little effort, things could work out. these are just speed bumps.