my immortal

i love to immortalize stuff.
so here's what my lovey said in response to the thinness issue (reverse ordered for easier reading.)

am: thanks for the post about the situation in singapore where many women are dying (figurative and literally, mentally and physically) to be thin
am: so much more awareness needs to be raised and yet it's such an uphill battle given the blistering force of the mass media.
am: but your post is a step in the right direction, and it means a lot, and perhaps even more so, because you are a man.
am: it's just like sexual assault (at least the more frequent way in which it occurs). men need to recognize the problem, and not abet it, or deny it, but fight against it as well.

she's a psychologist, by the way, so she certainly knows what she's talking about! with regard to the sexual assault, i believe a responsible person should be at liberty to get a gun. there should be reasonable background checks and stuff but someone like me should be able to get a gun (and they should require people who want to get guns to go for training and such, like police training for dummies). the relation of this to sexual assault is that with a gun, strength is not so much a factor and even grannies can protect themselves from thugs. the granny bit probably relates more to theft/robbery.

what the? they arrested people protesting bush in new york? seems like just the anarchists. anyway, i say the fixation with looks and thinness is ridiculous, and ridiculously harmful. it's the primitive part of ourselves that persists, this superficiality. and materialism, too, might as well, since i'm at it. spending all that money on trivialities like make-up and things not really needed, when the money could put children in school and feed people.

i was so tired last night. slept and woke up for lunch, then slept and woke up for dinner. by the way, seems like my gastroenterologist needs to push back my appointment, so... sheesh. i was wondering whether there are any NS requirements for males with down syndrome, say. would seem ridiculous if there was.

since there's still a month it might be worth looking into relief teaching. it's annoying, maybe the army can find some way of enlisting me first rather than just making me wait...

by the way, with video technology being what it is already, i don't know why they don't have virtual referees for sports like soccer. can instant replay and all that and make better decisions, plus don't even need the referee to be on the field occassionally in the way of the play...