The video was uploaded in 2007, that's SEVEN years ago to my fellow mathlete failures (I counted with my fingers. It's legit.) ((Is that how you even spell mathlete? Is mathlete a word?)) and since then Chris has done A LOT. Look him up now and chances are you won't even recognise him.
A strong advocate for LGBT rights, Crocker has never made his cross dressing a secret, a rarity in itself considering the deeply religious background he came from. Crocker strives to be a role model for young men, and women alike, who live in fear of prejudice and isolation due to their sexuality, gender identity or whatever the fuck else makes them happy that isn't considered a 'social norm'. Crocker has no problem telling his 'haters' where to go but despite this, he is still faced with an assault of hate mail on a regular basis from religious nuts or insecure 'macho' guys who, judging by their atrocious spelling, are all illiterate.
On the 16th of January, 2014, Crocker uploaded this status on his facebook page:
My inbox is flooded with messages from "Go to hell, you disgraceful tranny." to "Cut your dick off. You are a disgrace to life itself."
My question is: What part of this is suppose to be hurtful?
If I was going to stop being myself for you IGNORANT, BACKWARDS-MINDED Christian-Brainwashed pieces of shit - I would have stopped being myself a LONG time ago.
So bring on the insults. Just know you are trying to take down 26 years of confidence. Confidence that comes from being EXACTLY who I am.
Let your hate rot you to pieces
because it will destony ONLY you. Not me.
Your problem is what is possibly inside of you. Are you possibly gay? Do you possibly WANT TO CROSS DRESS? Do not take your anger at yourselves out on me. Come out to your parents. Come out to YOURSELF.
Looking more closely upon Crocker's page, I began to read comments left beneath photos which left a taste similar to that of a dog named 'Society's shit. Beneath photo's of Crocker dressed as a woman were slanderous comments marking Chris as 'unnatural' and 'an abomination' (and those were the nicer ones!) While photos of Chris without make up in his 'male persona' received comments like; 'You're so handsome!' and 'You don't need all that make up!' - while I understand that these commenters meant well, telling a crossdresser that they 'don't need' to dress as the opposite sex is incredibly insulting. Most don't do it out of insecurity, they do it because they damn well want to.
Comments like this almost made it seem that while a lot of people want to seem 'supportive' and open to the LGBT community, they still don't understand it. They don't understand why a man would want to marry another man, or a woman another woman, most don't even believe that Bi-sexuality is a real sexual orientation. To then have to try and wrap their heads around why a person would want to dress as the opposite sex, or why they feel trapped within their own bodies is a completely different ballpark that society seems just too lazy to try and understand. To actively protest that you are an LGBT ally and then tell happily tell a crossdresser or transsexual that they don't 'need' make up is almost worse than outrightly saying that they are 'going to hell' because what you're basically saying is; 'You clearly have no self-esteem, which is obviously the ONLY reason you could possibly want to dress as the opposite sex so I'm going to be your hero and tell you how great you look when you look just like everyone else!' Ignorance is just as destructive a force as outright homophobia. Perhaps we'll all learn this some day.
I'm going to wrap up my rant here despite having a lot more to say on the topic, mostly because I know that I myself, am more than likely ignorant in some way or another, but I'm happy to be educated and to learn as much as I can about equality in all aspects of life, not just online.
Disclaimer: All views represented here are my own, how 'correct' I am in terms of correct terms etc is always open for discussion and if I have said something here offensive and thereby prove my own ignorance, feel free to leave a comment/email me letting me know.
Christopher Cunningham-Crocker's Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/ChrisCrockerOFFICIAL
