There's been small changes, like First Nations now being referred to as First Peoples. Bi-racial groups are getting more attention that ever before with shows like "Key and Peele" focusing on the issue, but people still label President Obama as "black" as opposed to "bi-racial" because it's considered a bigger win for "blacks." South-East Asians and East-Indians are getting noticed more too due to a larger media presence.Gays and Lesbians are more open about "coming out" to the point where it's not even shocking to learn a well-recognized celebrity is gay.
Those changes are all well and good and a part of a healthy society. On the other end there's people who have no clue what the fuck they're doing or talking about.
Today, for instance, Paula Deen was SHIT-CANNED for having admitted to using the "N" word (I think that word is NIGGER). The controversy isn't that she dropped the N-Bomb, it's that she freely admitted to using it. No one knows the context in which she used the word. For all we know she could have been hanging with her homies in the crib, sippin' 40 and listening to freestyle when she let slip, "Damn, nigger, that shit is tight," or something along those lines. She confessed to having used a word and profusely apologized for having used it, and basically lost an empire. Nigger is a racist, and hurtful word, there's no question about that, but this is a tree falling in the woods scenario. If no one know what you said, does it hurt anyone? I've said some pretty nasty shit about you behind your back. Am I being mean to you? Yes, but not to your face... your scrunched up James Franco face.
If she's trying to reform for her racist past, doesn't that make her a better person, or is it "once a racist always a racist?" Martin Luther King's dream of tolerance would never have worked if it wasn't for forgiveness. Can people stay mad at her? She's like Katie Perry as a grandmother that wants to bake you cookies.
That's just one example from today. The other comes from Mike Krahulik, better known as "Gabe," the illustrator for Penny-Arcade and co-organizer for PaX. Today, he was attacked for saying women have vaginas. Someone, likely a troll, decided he was being prejudiced against transgendered people. There was an immediate backlash against him, and he didn't come out looking too good.
Seriously, though, can we not define women as, "people with vaginas?" Do we have to include a fringe in there to satisfy everyone? Transgenered people are little understood by anyone, probably including factual transgendered people. They get lumped together with Gays and Lesbians to confuse the issue of human sexuality more than it already is. I personally take offense at anyone with a dick demanding to be called a "woman" in the same sense that I'd be offended at being asked to call an unlicensed acupuncturist a, "doctor." If you self-identify as a woman, that's your preference, not mine. I don't have your psyche profile and chromosone test on file to ratify your belief. If a woman comes up to me and tells me she's a lesbian, I'll believe her, or at least believe she doesn't want to fuck me. If a man comes up to me and tells me she's a woman, I'm going to have to ask to talk to a doctor, or at least see some pussy.
There's documented cases of people believing they're wolves. That doesn't mean they are, or that a doctor is going to give them a fur transplant. There's also people who have an intense psychological aversion to having more than one arm. I shit you not. It scars their psyches to have two arms and they'll attempt to amputate their own limbs. Why does a man not wanting to have dick get the special treatment? Is it not fair to ask that question? What you do with your own bodies is your own business, but don't be surprised if people don't, "get you."
My personal feeling is that we're all getting a little soft, or at least a little soft in the head. Two front-page stories in The Province this week were about a handicapped boy being "discriminated against."
This is that discrimination:
Horrifying, isn't it? It really breaks your heart, which incidentally is the title of that story. Look at that kid there, separated from the rest of his class because his WHEELCHAIR DOESN'T FIT ON A FUCKING BENCH. The mother started a shitstorm because her son was as physically close to the rest of his class in the photo without having to exit his medically necessary wheelchair and without him obscuring the rest of the children, who are all nice and centered. If you're a photographer, do you wan to inconvenience a disabled child by making him get out of the chair, or else inconvenience the rest of the class by having them stand awkwardly around him in the foreground?
They made them do a second photo, even though there's nothing wrong with this one, and this is what they ended up with:
How shitty is that? That was posted in The Province, by the way. That was considered, "news." Meanwhile, one of the largest cities in Canada and most of the prairies are flooding.
I'm beginning to think that the expectation is that people literally accept any shit anyone give them. No one is that understanding. No one. Not even religious leaders, or world leaders. Not even Oprah or Jesus, most likely. This generation is expected to be the most accommodating, least racist generation that ever lived in the history of ever. Isn't that a little bit too much pressure? Can't anyone wig out and call some a Jebo? I don't even know what that is, but it sounds racist, so it must be. No one is allowed to hate, for any reason, even though it's a human emotion, and thus isn't grounded in logic or reason. No one is allowed to slip up, or not consider every variable. Soon, we're going to have to accept Bronies for what they are. Bronies, by the way, are the grown men obsessed with My Little Ponies. No one can even tell if they're joking, or not, or if they're genuinely disturbed. They're going to come up to you and say they're legally married to a fucking plastic pony doll, and you'll have to accept it, because that's where society has gone.
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