Apparently Words Can Hurt You


Gorgeous spring day. Santa Monica. A temperate 70 degrees. The sun warm, not hot. You spot an ice cream shop, and, though you weren’t thinking about it an instant before, it’s like a sign from the universe. There are a lot of things that could make this rare day of relaxation better, but, until you…
1 – It’s time to get out of the shower, but instead of drying off you just stand there with the towel wrapped around you wishing you’d never gotten in in the first place. 2 – You wake up having to pee in the middle of the night and really consider just peeing the bed….
The day you celebrate how long you’ve had a mom… or something like that. I saw mine. And my sister – also a mom. And my Aunt Mary – a surrogate mom. And a lady that I haven’t seen since I was a teenager – a mom, but not related to me at all in…
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*shakes fist angrily at rest of world and stalks off, muttering vile imprecations under her breath*
It always interests me when the powers that be protect the sensitivities of people by blatantly offending, or even discriminating against, others.
This world is so immensely fucked up.
People suck! Sometimes I forget people are jerks because I’m not an jerk by nature, so I tend to be shocked when people do such weird idiotic things. But then it just pisses me off twice as much because I’m angry AND confused.
How did they describe “MILK”? A movie about one man’s struggle with severe lactose intolerance? A vegan who was assassinated by a farmer for spreading vicious anti-diary propaganda?
Sorry for the rant.