WORLD AIDS DAY 2011
NOTICE: I want to make sure I state this before you read what I wrote to address anything that you find upsetting or if you disagree with me. These are MY THOUGHTS AND OPIONS and only mine so if you don’t like or agree that is perfectly fine with me.
So today is an important day it’s “World AIDS Day 2011” What does that mean? Well if you are the subject of this post you think it means for you to be a patronizing ignorant fool. To the rest of us it’s another day of struggle, of fighting, supporting, educating, and most of all it’s another day of life to live.
You all maybe asking where are you going with this rant.. bare with me you will see it..
So today is a call of action on how to defeat HIV/AIDS, to get more funding from governments, new programs to help fight the spread of the disease, to get condoms/medicine to third world countries, and unfortunately seeing how hypercritical people can be.
Today started like any other day except I decided to make sure I had Red on in support for the day. As I logged on to facebook this morning I see a flood of World AIDS Day ribbons, postings to get tested, people asking for remembrance of those that have been lost and prayers for those that have been affected or infected with this horrid disease. I thought to myself “WOW this is inspiring to see all these people showing support” Hell you even see past Presidents of different parties coming together to support the current President on his Goals and ambitions to help make a difference not just at home in the US but worldwide. To think 30 Years ago when HIV was first discovered it was just classified as a “gay disease” and now look at it, HIV/AIDS does not discriminate it welcomes all.
Now here is where I start to have issue with this, I see response to a friend’s post “A cure would be great, but we can stop it by not spreading it… Ones who are positive stop having unprotected sex, those who are negative don’t trust word of a horny man. Somewhere we lost the meaning of responsibility. What’s going on is HIV positive people are having unprotected sex and not telling their partners. What’s going on it young men are taking the word of their partners and putting their lives in the hands of men who do not care about them” To me this person is bitter, he probable contracted the virus by the same way he posed in the response. See instead of doing something productive in the community he decided to be destructive, instead of helping out and trying to make sure this don’t happen he sits back and is bitchy and bitter because he wasn’t responsible enough for himself, he wants to blame everyone else for his status when in fact the only person he should blame is himself. Stop playing the victim card, man up and not let the disease take over..
As I read more I came acrossed a friend that posted something similar to the above post “always wear a condom, don’t take other peoples word that they are negative, play safe to be safe.” Now can you tell me what is wrong with this? I guess not because of you not knowing him you don’t know that he is HIV+, refuses to take meds, never wears a condom, gets insulted when he meets a guy and he asks him to wear one or the guy wants to put one on and kicks them out, huge meth head, and when he talks to me about the guys he’s been with just laughs because of how stupid they are” He is the real reason why I’m so freaking pissed. I’ve been HIV+ for 9 years I take responsibility for my actions and I do not wear condoms. However the guys I have sex with all know my status and are either POZ as well or they know that their actions not mine because I did my part by informing them of my status so they can make the choice. ( I have only dated and had sex with poz guys now going on 7 year)
Both these people do nothing for the HIV/AIDS communities, notice I didn’t say gay because like I said above HIV/AIDS does not discriminate it welcomes all. Instead they sit back while people that really want to make a difference not only in stopping the spread of HIV but also stopping the stigma/discrimination, help educate on ways to prevent HIV, how to be safe even if you do not use condoms, and how to live a healthier lifestyle to make sure that you and your body can fight the disease and be around to see the end of HIV/AIDS.
Before I wrote this I expressed my frustration with a good friend of mine and they reminded me that some people are not cut out for action, some are not like me and able to deal with the status of being HIV+, some people are bitter to a fault because they did not or do not have the support, maybe they just can’t or won’t deal with the issues. Then there is my favorite they just don’t give a fuck who they hurt because they figure who cares.
I’m not naive I know that not everyone is like me, I know that everyone situation is different. I have met a lot of people both out about their status and those that are not. I’ve been thanked by both and about being open about it not hiding what I look like. Understand it’s not that I started out wanting to help people fight the good fight so to speak I mean I was like so many people that just donated or showed support by saying “please pray for the ones that are infected and remember the ones people have lost” I wasn’t any different. But to be honest remembering is good because trust me I want everyone to remember me when I’m gone, prayers are good it gives hope to those that believe, but most important is action…. Volunteer, fundraise for a local HIV/AIDS charity, sponsor someone in an AIDS walk/run/ride, educate people, etc..
Again i want to state that this is my thoughts and opions…
