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| Tuesday, January 25, 2005 |
| We don't need this fascist groove thang |
I woke up this morning thinking one thing: I don't feel like crap.
I'm not completely well yet, indeed no; my nose is still stuffily and I have a cough, but the vague fever and the general stupidity is gone. Not my own natural stupidity, just the kind that comes from being sick. I predict total wellness by the weekend, just in time to... sit at home because I have no money and all my friends hate me (well, not all of them). Damn.
I've been having dreams in which I'm acting like even more of an idiot than I really do. Sunday night, I had one where I was in a combination hospital/movie theater/Costco (?) and I was using a backpack. I was waiting in line for who knows what, and feel someone trying to get into my backpack, so I turn around and it's this annoying kid who says something like, "Well, you should watch it more carefully if you don't want people to steal." I'm looking through the bag and realize I can't find my glasses, so I start searching the whole place before I remember I left them back in the hospital, where I'd been getting a massage. Dur!
And in the one last night, I was waiting for it to be time to go hang out with EC and JH, and I decided to walk around this place that looked kinda like my old college. I go to this kind of deserted part in the building to get a drink from the soda machine, and this creepy looking guy comes up so I scream "Get the fuck away from me!" and it turns out he's a cop. I'm really embarrassed but he thinks it's funny, and invites me to go and talk with him and his cop friends for awhile.
Yesterday I was in super-need-chocolate mode and made my dad buy the Herschey's brownies mix. Mmm. By the time I actually made them in the evening, though, most of my craving had passed. Boo. It was still good, and I still ate them, but I didn't need them like I had been. My PMS-ness has now morphed into the wanting-crunchy-salty-food stage. You know you're stupid when you can't keep up with yourself.
I heard a news report this weekend about these whiny Christians who are whining (predictably) about this video being distributed to a lot of elementary schools. The video has little bits from popular cartoon characters, most notably Spongebob Squarepants, and was designed to teach kids about getting along and acceptance and diversity and all that. The "offensive" thing is apparently a little message on the website of the creator, who wants to promote tolerance among people of all races, religions, genders, and... :::ominous music::: sexual orientations.
How does that press conference go? "Well, we agree that racism and sexism are bad, but we still think gay bashing is okay."
I don't necessarily want non-gay-approving Christians to give up their stance and embrace homosexuals (although I think it would be nice if they did do that), but I don't see why it's so bad to teach kids to be at least tolerant. Even if you think it's wrong and a sin, that doesn't make it right to create an atmosphere where people are bullied, terrorized and humiliated because of something they can't change. Besides, to my understanding, there isn't anything in the video that actually "promotes homosexuality" (whatever that means); it's just the website message that people are getting their undies in a twist over.
It's not quite as stupid as the scandalous gay Teletubby incident, but it really doesn't make good publicity for conservatives, either.
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posted by Yvonne Hernandez @ 11:18 AM
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About Me: I hate numbers, but I'll throw some at you: 24 years old, 30 purses, 100 lip glosses, 200 books, 1 new celeb crush a week, 2 much procrastination, 2 dogs, and 2 blogs where I obsess over all these things. This, is one of them.
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