It's like everyone's playing a game of whose-life-sucks-worse all the time, and they can't accept that maybe, just maybe, someone out there is actually suffering more than them -- or at all.
I'm not pretending to be innocent of this. I know that I am self-involved more often that not. But at least I am able to acknowledge that, hey, that guy has it worse than me, and something should be done about it. I don't try to demean him, or belittle his suffering. And I certainly don't tell him to 'just get the fuck over it'.
I swear to god, if I hear that phrase again, someone is going to lose their head. Literally.
I'm tired of the labels. Everyone is this or that according to someone, regardless of whether they've even met. Thin girls are anorexic. Women in their 40s are hacks. Elderly people are incontinent, hearing-impaired, they have dementia. Asians and Muslims are apparently the root of all evil.
Xenophobia can kiss my ass.
There is a group on facebook now called 'YOUR religion is ruining OUR planet'. Isn't it a little fucking stupid, to say the least, to blame *all* religion for everything going wrong in the world? I'm fairly sure that the Muslims didn't cause global warming. And Christian fundamentalists didn't make the volcano erupt in Iceland. Buddhists didn't create the hole in the ozone layer, and Pagans don't 'bewitch' the Japanese to go whaling.
What's so wrong with believing in something, anyway? Ja, I get that extremists do some pretty fucked up things, but aren't they ultimately a minority?
To blame everything on the extremists, to claim that an entire religion is comprised solely of extremists -- isn't that a little like tasting chocolate icecream and then declaring that all icecream is chocolate flavoured? Such a bad analogy, but it works. Have you *been* to Baskin & Robbins?
Ugh I'm not even going to touch on the sheer ignorance of mental health tonight.
Vent over for now.
And time for sleep and beautiful dreams of biological terms and diagrams.
Sweet dreams!
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