March again, apparently I update this 2 times a year.
Lots of things going on right now, so basically I have been spending all day online expounding. There was a big case in Ohio where 2 guys raped a girl because she was passed out drunk and that makes it OK? Right? lulz...
They pretty much got away with it as well since they are serving like a year or two in juvenile detention and everyone is saying it was the girls fault for getting drunk at a party (where everyone else was also getting drunk). Basically people suck a lot and are willing to excuse just about anything if you make the perpetrator seem charming enough.
Also the Supreme Court is making a big decision about gay marriage, hopefully it falls in favor of it.
Lucky for me I have a lot of really reasonable friends who think that rape is wrong and gay marriage is awesome so not much controversy surrounding those topics. Mostly the disagreements are over guns and stuff. Which is funny because most people I talk to fall into the "hey, guns are great and all, we do need to figure out a way to keep them out of the hands of crazy people though, also we should start trying to help crazy people more in this country" camp, but if you look at all of the crap going around on the internet it makes it seem like there are 2 sides either a) you want all guns to be melted and turned into sculptures FOR THE CHILDREN or b) you want everyone to be able to own ALL THE GUNS, and oh my god the government is trying to take them alllllll away. I wish that news companies and people who create those stupid info-graphics that get passed around on Facebook would realize that we are all smart enough to fall some place in the middle of those two sides. Also, I wished that people who create info-graphics on Facebook would bother to fact check them every once in awhile, I want to see your works cited!
That is all I have for today, I am going to try harder to update this thing more often. I just feel like no one reads it. Maybe turning it baby poo green will help.
It is amazing to me that when rape/violence against women happens in other countries esp Arab countries everyone is all up in arms about how uncivilized and horrible "they" are but when it happens here it is boys will be boys and they are talented football players we can't do anything to them, that slut 16 year old had it coming she was DRUNK!
ReplyDeletesome people aren't smart enough to fact check stuff that gets posted to facebook, if it porves what they want post away regardless of truth
ReplyDeleteI usually take those info-graphic posts with a honkin' piece of salt.
ReplyDeleteThough it's really not my place to question another person's legitimacy, I can't help but sometimes ponder the validity of the concern that should be involved by some of the posters.
I never post those anyway, not because I think they're invalid or misguided... but because my momma always told me it's rude to discuss politics and religion, heh.
As for the rape, I agree with the first commenter. It's hard to wrap one's mind around the proceedings of this case...
I actually refused to read an article about a rape that happened in India because I knew it would have a comments section and I would read them and I would get angry because of all of the people who talk about how the people there are barbaric, rape is wrong no matter where it happens and it happens here about as much as it happens most other places. We have no real moral ground to stand on there.
ReplyDeleteI can't help myself, whenever they post really specific information "In 1938 Hitler made everyone register their guns and in 1940 he used that registry to take them away" "81454 people die every year from toasters and only 8 die from assault rifles" I HAVE to look it up and find out if it is real. So far all of them have been wrong, sometimes there is a nugget of truth in there but it is so far buried it isn't worth mentioning.