Anything That Moves?

[alivemagdolene]

If you are unfamiliar with the whole Post Secret phenomenon, it started with a guy doing a community art project and it spread. On the website, it lists the rules like this:

You are invited to anonymously contribute your secrets to PostSecret. Each secret can be a hope, regret, funny experience, unseen kindness, fantasy, belief, fear, betrayal, erotic desire, confession, or childhood humiliation. Reveal anything - as long as it is true and you have never shared it with anyone before.

Create your 4-by-6-inch postcards out of any mailable material. If you want to share two or more secrets, use multiple postcards. Put your complete secret and image on one side of the postcard.

You can see some of them on Flickr by searching for "post secret" in the search bar. They're kind of beautiful, actually.

Anyway, the "post secret" thing has gotten understandably popular and spawned imitators, and several LJ comms have sprung up. Whilst wandering through some looking for the "official" comm for the actual project, I stumbled across this and I was struck by the bigoted and downright cruel remarks about bisexuality. No, not "downright cruel". "Enthusiastically ignorant". What utter scum people can be when they think they are anonymous. And how sad that that kind of stupidity/hatred/bigotry is not only from "outsiders" but also from members of the GLBT community who are supposed to be on "our side". Jesus!

Again, I whinge back to the now-defunct mag Anything That Moves's gorgeous mission statement (scroll down, it's beneath my ranting) that helped me so much and I think more people should see.