movie marathon!
so, last night, we had a movie marathon, to raise awareness of deceased issues. we wanted to show people some fun movies, but also show them how negative (and really just inaccurate! i mean, that new Dawn of the Dead (which was really just insensitive, releasing it right as things were quieting down) showed zoms running around, really quick, which is just not true!) the media sometimes portrays PEOPLE like my brother, or other mobile deceased. SO we wound up with kind of a mix, including this documentary that came out a couple of years ago, “Walking Dead: The Rising Threat”, which was just horrible. My friend henry was there, along with his deceased cousin, and they were actually featured in the movie. henry and his parents were interviewed about keeping a deceased relative in homecare. henry says that the guys who did the movie just twisted what they all said and edited it so that they seemed kind of weird and made jeff (henry’s cousin) seem dangerous and uncontrollable. watching it, i was shocked, because jeff is one of the sweetest zoms i’ve ever met. i bet you could take off his muzzle, even, and he’d be fine, wouldn’t try and hurt anyone. it was really just dishonest!
anyway, even worse than that movie, though, were these zoth kids who showed up. i knew two of them from school, but the others i hadn’t met before. these SHAMblers drive me crazy, i mean, a lot of them mean well, you know? we always have several in the dead-live alliance, and you can tell that a bunch of them really care about the cause, but COME ON. one of the girls last night, her mom’s on a work farm, and she was talking about solidarity and, i don’t know, “creative lifestyle protest,” but they just look silly. and honestly, i just think it’s a little bit offensive. they all wear rags and really gross makeup. zoms haven’t looked like that for years! we don’t do like some families do, and put blush on matthew so he looks alive (which is just creepy, anyway), but he’s not really decomposing (no eyeballs falling out, thank you very much) and as for their rags, one of those zoths had the nerve to tell me that it was insensitive and wrong to dress matthew in normal clothes. i expect bulls$@% like that from the phobes, but these kids are supposed to be on our side! it’s crap like that that shows that these SHAMblers are all about the fashion statement, or teenage rebellion. that’s why they make me so angry. just go see rocky horror, or start doing drugs, and stop making me look bad.
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God, you’re such a hypocrite. Yes, some zoths are just doing it for the fashion or rebellion, but how can you justify ignoring the good work so many of us do just because you think we look silly? Here in America, as well as around the entire world, the powers that be spent three years slaughtering people like your brother, or all of the other zoms out there. It was attempted genocide, plain and simple. We have no idea how many of the zombies were destroyed, but even the most conservative estimate places it well above 20 million over the last seven years, outnumbering the casualties of the Holocaust, Pol Pot’s killing fields, and Stalin’s purges, and making other recent genocides, such as in Rwanda, or Saddam’s attacks on the Kurds almost nothing in comparison. As much as people like you try to deny it, zombies are a legitimate cultural group. Once a deceased rises, it immediately has more in common with all the other zombies in the world than it does with the family and neighbors it had when it was alive. Zombies have a distinct language, food, and behaviors. We tried to wipe out that culture, and I and my friends recognize the disgusting crime that this was. I feel that the only way to make up for this is by doing our best to take that culture on ourselves, and attempt to preserve it as best we can.
It’s the people like you that really damage our cause. You think that sitting around watching movies will make any difference? How can you be so naive? You need to get over yourself, little girl.
I acknowledge that there’s a big difference between actually being a zom and consciously imitating them, as I do, but I also know that because of the way I dress and act, I understand their plight a lot more than you do. Try SHAMbling yourself one of these days, and see how differently you’re treated. If you truly care about your brother, I don’t see how you can do any differently.