My Pet Hates - Part One

[rockfotze]

I have about a zillion pet hates. I can't believe I've never posted about any of them until just now! See, I'm the kind of person who get gets her hate on very easily and with what seems like the silliest things, but I get so darn passionate about it and start ranting and raving about 'em and well, it's pretty funny (even if I do say so myself)!

Today's pet hate are for all the morons out there who think they're doing good and are really doing no good for nobody. This was spawned by that ridiculous fucking facebook status upate thing where girls are encourged to post the colour of the bra they're wearing as their facebook status in order to "raise awareness for breast cancer and confuse boys". OH YOU'RE KIDDING ME, RIGHT??!! Aside from the fact breast cancer is probably the one cancer we're all the most aware about (after all, half the stuff you can buy these days has a pink version where part of the profits go to theBreast Cancer Foundation), how is posting the word "white" going to do anything for anyone? Wanna know how? IT AIN'T!

I have a few other ideas for your goddam sheep. How about we raise awareness for a less publicised/sexy cancer like bowel cancer? Or is writing the colour of today's poop not cute enough for you? Or how about you take an extra minute out of your damnlife and actually donate some money and then make a Facebook status about that? THAT will make an actual difference. And as for the "confusing boys" part of this whole thing - ARE WE ALL STILL CHILDREN? "Wouldn't it, like, be so cool if we, like, totally just wrote down the colours of our bra's and didn't tell the boys why?" "OMG they'd like totally freak out!" NO THEY WON'T! Show 'em pictures of boobs, or (more importantly) boobs after having breast cancer removed, and maybe they'll pay attention. It ain't like you're actually showing them your bra's, so why would they give a fuck???

This is just the tip of the iceburg really. There's been this sort of crap going on forever that has always pissed me off severely because people just follow the trend like retarded little sheep, not bothering to question WHY they're doing it or if there's a better way. Because ya know what? There usually is!

So next time you decided to show support for/protest something, think about what effect you're making? Any? No? Then if you're actually passionate about the subject in questionthen DO something that WILL make some sort of impact. Donate money, volunteer, whatever it takes to make some sort of difference. Otherwise sit down and shut up because you're pissing me (and probably a lotta other people) off.

Comments

[mayet.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I thought it was stupid too until people started making references to it reminding girls to do self exams at home- since early diagnosis is key to successful treatment of just about any cancer, that made sense to me. If it reminded just a few people to be proactive about their health, it can't hurt.

I don't know where anyone came up with the idea we needed to confuse boys about bra colors, though. Basically every single boy on my f-list knew what was going on AND acted like a retard about it at some point, but what are you going to do about that. I think it's their natural state of being.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_telecaster/]

Hehe, I'm totally with you.
And in case it hasn't become obvious in over 4 years of lj-activity, I'm totally pro-hate/rage etc., so feel free to share yours ^^

[tie-me-down.livejournal.com]

hahah! that's exactly what I thought when I got that email =D Can't wait to read your next 'pet peeve' rant!