Lately, I made a pledge to myself
not to read, write, listen to, or have anything to do with crap. I realized
that I’ve spent too many mouse-hours on the ingestion of crap, and it’s time to
stop because...well, I was going to say because I’m too old for that, but the
truth is that age has nothing to do with crap tolerance, and you are never,
ever, too young to cut the crap.
One of the ways I have begun to
honor my pledge is to avoid getting sucked up in Internet drama, such as the
production of long steaming webpages of crappy protest over a rape that never actually happened, i.e., was scripted, on one of those television programs that
every one of you is supposed to care a great deal about, never mind that the
rape (an incestuous rape at that) is a small sin compared to the numerous
gruesome murders shown in graphic detail on this same program, including the
stabbing death of a pregnant woman and a man suffocating under a coating of
liquid gold (no, not Velveeta), as well as torture and castration and
mutilation, none of which have brought on as many crap-pages of OMFG that is the worst scene EVER and how DARE the public not be as outraged about it as we are!!!
Which brings me to the crappy
attitude that sexual crimes are so much worse, exponentially worse, than other
serious crimes, to the point that too many people think that rape is a worse
fate than murder, which is not true, not
true at all, and that attitude is far from helpful to people who have
actually experienced rape because they are expected, nay, have a duty to be
traumatized for life, and if they’re not, well then they weren’t really raped,
amirite?
Don’t watch crap, don’t have crappy
attitudes.
Is that really so hard?