LOL this reminds me of an interesting story
so in my old school in Iran, I was thought of as a pervert or what ever you wanna call it/how ever you wanna insult me
it was probably because I’ve always been fearlessly open and curious and persistant enough to have found things at an early age. (things an average girl in Iran doesn’t find out about/enjoy until much later.. or, like, ever)
also, I’ve always cursed a lot
and in 6th grade I cut my hair real short and wanted to be a boy
I may or may not have accidentally told a friend of mine that I also wanted to date all the pretty girls
and I thought sex was just fucking fantastic
and I masturbated
(that answers all the questions you didn’t ask)
any how, that friend told all the other girls I was kinda friends with that I was horrible or something
thus the getting used to being lonely and reading instead of shopping with friends
we all made up and what not eventually
except for one of the girls
but that was cause she was quite religious and once, in an attempt to comfort me, she told me that a teacher who was mean to me will go to hell and I laughed and said there is no hell, there is no god, get your head out of your ass (yeah.. she never talked to me again)
First time I visited home from Malaysia, I brought my school text books with me. I visited my old school and took my textbooks to show my friends. one of said textbooks was my science book. It included explicit diagrams of the male and female anatomy because that year we learned about how babies were made.
So that one friend, mentioned earlier, looks at my science text book and starts asking me about what we learn, etc. When I tell her about the sex ed, she gets all shocked and wtf-is-wrong-with-you-shima-y. so i, very briefly i may add, gave her the talk. (sex=babies..) and she simply denies. I tell her thats what her parents did to make her and she still denies and rolls her eyes at the perverted liar that I am.. (lol)
even though it was a wtf-why-don’t-you-guys-know-this moment for me, I suddenly understood how fucked up the education and society in Shiraz is.
that was the day I gave up trying to.. idk.. educate my friends and family in Iran. I decided to just be one of them and enjoy the things they enjoy and laugh at the things they laugh at.
I doubt I’ll ever let them see, however close to me they may be, some of the things that make me me. My political and religious (lack of it) views, my appreciation for nude art, the human form and sexuality/sensuality.
I know this goes against what my beliefs to bare myself and let people decide to dislike me but it seems like the sensible thing to do.
(via the-maddest-scientist)
