While working today, I had a random flashback to high school, sitting in class next to this girl who was always mean to me. I don’t recall her name, but she had very elf like features. She would always call me a fag, and she did it in such an odd way. She’s just come in and sit down next to me and say something off the wall.
The weird thing was that she’d try to have conversations with me. For example, she’d tell me about her weekend, and then ask which boy I had butt sex with, all in a very matter-of-fact way. She was so cruel, and said things in such a nonchalant way, like she didn’t care that she was hurting me.
One day, I just looked at her and said “Why are you so mean to me?”. Can’t you just hear the little boy innocence in that question? She simply replied “Why do you act like such a faggott?”
I didn’t know I was acting any way. It’s hard for a young boy to understand that the way he speaks or acts is “fag-ish” when he isn’t even trying.
Oh well… The good news is that I’d never let anybody talk to me that way today. 