2010-10-28

The big issues

When it came to wearing-purple-day, I was completely foiled by my laziness. I read enough US media to have been aware of the deaths well ahead of the spirit day, but maybe I'm just a bad person cause when it comes to really really obvious things, I just can't work up the energy to go out and protest. Not even write a little bloggery. So I guess I didn't follow the threads enough. When people starting discussing how and why they'd be wearing purple, I though they were actually doing it right then and there. Silly me. I ended up thinking people talking about it yesterday had missed the actual occasion by a week. Some friends probably thought I did it on purpose (that wouldn't have been the first time).

As everybody knows, Clint McCance (no linkie, seems he deleted his facebook account. Brave man.) is so last week's news. I could say, hopefully he'll be history in a lot of contexts, like the school board. That particular aspect actually does have me nearly working up energy to protest a bit. I mean... how sick can belief in magic actually make you? (Björn Kjellström: kolla de riktiga humanisterna. Det är i kyrkan de bor.)

I won't say I hope Clintboy decides to kill himself from shame, because I'm just a better person than he is, but I will say I hope he's embarrassed enough to quit yipping in serious media like facebook. We'll just leave it at that.

In comparison, Marie Claire is a Burning Issue. One anorectic's crusade against fat people on tv, now what's not worth protesting there?

Occasionally I will make jokes about almost any group of people. Probably tasteless and possibly hurtful. I never mean for them to be denigrating. Like a lot of people, I probably fail. I rarely get excited over fat people either way and like most handicaps I usually find the things people write on the issue to be turning the blind eye to the issue or just plain dumb. Possibly the best blogger on the planet, Bloggess, pointed a re-tweet toward Jennsylvania's blurb on the fat-people-on-tv-thing, and guess what? It's so great I could sign it. So I guess you should read it.

So I didn't wear purple. In what parallel universe would I own anything purple to wear, anyway? Guess I'll have to proclaim: I find the idea that it would somehow be ok to harass anyone, kid or adult, for their sexual preferences so offensive and blatantly stupid, anyone actually embracing that view can just imagine I spit in their face.

The majority or the world's population still believing in magic, that's worth being upset over, even for me. That somebody can still claim to be my king, that's worth being upset over.

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