Project Minus One (-1) Fuck

By Klemente Cisneros

Project Minus (-1) Fuck 2011.

Bullying will never end. Yes, there are ongoing campaigns about ending bullying across the country, in many countries, but truth is, bullying is an act of hate and intolerance. We can’t change that on people because even those who are bullied hate on other human beings. All we can do is educate everyone to understand the uniqueness of every single person. However, it would be like teaching them to understand every snowflake that falls during winter in order to accept everyone, because we are like snowflakes; unique and different in our own ways. Thus, from my point of view, that’s a hopeless objective that might make some difference but not big enough. Meanwhile, there are other movements to counteract bullying out there. Campaigns like “It Gets Better,” and some other ones not very common try to convince struggling teens to endure bullying because, eventually, things will get better in time. Yet, the truth is that things don’t actually get better. It is us that actually learn how to deal with those same issues and care less as we mature and get old. If you act a certain way, dress accordingly to some sort of stereotype, or try to show some emotions in public, you get pointed at. It happens all the time at school, at work, on the streets and at home, too. Let’s say you are bullied in high school, but then graduate and get bullied in college, and later at work. Does it really change anything at all? I mean, you’re older and wiser, and hopefully less frustrated about it; but are bullies less haters than they were in high school? Truth is, they are not. They are the same stupid pricks with a different vocabulary in a different setting.

My point in writing this excerpt is that things never actually get better. It is actually us who, in fact, make them better. We know it, but never pay attention to it because we are too busy caring about what they might think about your new outfit, the way you walk or talk, and who you hang out with. However, I shouldn’t be saying “we” but you. You guys out there, because, honestly, I never got bullied in high school, or college, or anywhere actually. People might’ve thought I was but I wasn’t ever. You know why? Because I never actually gave a single fuck about what they thought about me. I had enough problems dealing with myself, and everything that was going on in my messy little head, to care about those kinds of things. Now that I sit here writing this perspective, I actually realize that bullies don’t really exist. What really exist are bullied people. People who care and pay attention to what everyone says about them. People who hide their true selves from a crowd who is irrelevant to their lives. People who frustrate and end their precious lives because it’s too much hate to take. Are we doing something wrong? Yes we are. We are doing all these stupid NO H8, It Gets Better, Anti-Bullying campaigns to keep people from hating and say those who are hated on to endure all of it. Why don’t we teach everyone to actually give not a single fuck about the situation and live their lives however they want to? I know hate crimes are committed across the country every day and we must be careful about it, but I think if we surround ourselves with the people who won’t care about who we are and will accept us like that, everyone else can and will go away. It is always you trying to fit in a group you don’t have a place it. It’s you trying to be friends with people who you know will turn their backs on you if they knew your secrets. Think about it and prove me wrong.

I am writing this because I am tired of finding myself everyday in the situation of bumping into people who I love very deeply, but cares more about the people who hate them than loving those who love them. I’m angered at people passing on opportunities to find real and true love because they are very scared of a racist society. Lastly, I am sick of me trying to fight with time and space because I am stuck in a moment in my life where I can’t never openly say I love you to the person I love. Therefore, I ask all of you to stand up for love and stop worrying about hate. Start with me the Minus One (-1) Fuck Project to end bullying in the world and live a happy life. If you’re LGBT, Dark, White, Hispanic, Asian, European, Punk, Princess, Tall, Short, Skinny, Fat, or whatever you are. Wake up today and start giving Minus One Fuck about what they might think or say about you. Stand up for love because there isn’t more to love in life than loving ourselves. All we got, the best thing at all, to hold onto life and love deeply is each other.


Love,


Klemente