im surrounded by people using terms like “Hurrication” and saying like “Hurricane Irene was a joke!” i feel weird about people making light of the hurricane when many people lost their possessions, homes, loved ones, and lives.
humor can be helpful in getting though hard times. but just because you arent suffering from Hurricane Irenes effects doesnt mean others are not. making light of the situation as a whole can cause people forget the fortune in coming out unscathed.
i visited my old hs athletic trainer. because of my accident-prone tendencies coupled with doing 3 sports per season, i spent a lot of my high school career in the training room nursing my various injures. i was terrified of her the first time i came in with a sprained ankle my sophmore year (my experience included being publicly scolded in a room full of “cooler/older” athletes). as i spent more time in the training room, i began to see how much she really cared about the kids that came in there. tough love was just a necessity for a job that required her to work with athletes that thought they were hot-stuff at age 15.
she went above and beyond what i would expect of even a college-level trainer; she came to dr appointments and held my hand while they did pressure tests on my calf muscles, she came to my house to check my surgery dressings, and rehabbed with me every day through the summer.
it was nice to notice that she seemed genuinely happy to see me when i visited. thinking back on my high school years, she was one of the most constant and reliable presences that i had. if it werent for her, i dont think i would even be able to run today. shes the type to keep it real and thats how you know how true her commitment is. i feel lucky to have come across such a wonderful human being who has a genuine interest in peoples well-being. seeing the impression she made (on my life and others) makes me believe the idea that people can be inherently good. and i have more faith in the value of one-on-one work (ie counseling/therapy).
successfully communicated with another person to alleviate a stressful situation and frustrated feelings.
what is this, maturity?
weird.
Customer: So what do you go to school for?
Me: Psychology, Gender and Women’s Studies and Religion
Customer: So what does someone do with a degree in gender and women’s studies anyway?
Me: Oh just receive unprovoked criticism by older white men for their choice in academic field, mostly.
mylifemylifemylife.com (minus the official religion part)
also, i want our wmnstds dept to be called/have more courses about “gender studies”
also, i love the sassy retort!
“Indian women alter SlutWalk to better match country’s conservatism”
The walk, designed as a protest against a Canadian police officer who advised women to “avoid dressing like sluts” if they want to be safe from sexual assault, has elsewhere involved women dressing as provocatively as they please. But in India, the SlutWalk set for this coming Sunday is getting a makeover, with student organizers saying they have tweaked the original concept to better match India’s conservative social palette.
The confrontational “slut” has been softened by adding the Hindi word for “shamelessness” to the event’s title. Women have been asked to march in their regular clothes. And weekly public debates and street theater are being promoted even more energetically than the walk itself.
Rather than focusing on clothes, the campaign is questioning gender stereotypes embedded in ancient Hindu religious epics, Bollywood movies and sexist matrimonial classified ads.
“There will be no dress code” for the march, said Umang Sabarwal, 19, the event’s chief organizer. “In India, no matter what we wear, even if we are covered head to toe in a sari or a burqa, we get molested and raped. A woman’s fight in India is more basic — it is a fight for the right to be born, education, nutritious food, work.”
woke up spooning with cleo.
cooked breakfast.
cooked for a potluck.
cuddled with cleo.
never had to put clothes on.
