Random Shit That Pisses Steve the Fuck Off #1
Prevention months and awareness weeks. These are bullshit. Know why? Because anything worth preventing or being aware of should be prevented or brought to the forefront every day, not just 7 to 31 of them during the year.
Case in point, April is National Child Abuse Prevention Month. Now it’s no secret that I despise children and think the vast majority of them should be cast into some horrible pit of doom, fire, pain, and/or (but preferably) death. But lets just pretend for a moment that it is wrong to push a small child down a flight of stairs, or come home from the bar and slap it around a little bit, or put a lit cigarette out in the palm of its hand when they mess up on their math homework (remember, for the sake of this argument, we’re just pretending all this is wrong). If that’s really wrong, then it should be wrong EVERYDAY. Not just during April. Every year, month, week, day, hour, minute, and second should be child abuse prevention whatever. Not just one month, not just one week.
Also, awareness weeks/months are just fucking retarded. Awareness is when you’re too much of a pussy to attempt to even prevent something. There’s an AIDS awareness week/month every year. What a load of shit. For one thing, everyone is AWARE that AIDS exists. And if for some reason someone doesn’t know, shoot them in the face. They were a moron anyway. Being aware of something is pointless. If anything needs prevention it is AIDS. An AIDS awareness time would only work if it were changed to “People With AIDS Need to Stop Fucking Other Humans Without AIDS, Otherwise a Mob Will Set Your Dick on Fire and/or Fill Your Vag-hole With Boiling Hot Bleach Where Applicable” Awareness Random Time Frame. A PWANtSFOHWAOaMWSYDoFa/oFYVWBHBWA Awareness Century would be awesome. Most of these awareness campaigns are useless anyways or tell people something they already know. I’m pretty sure July is National Kellogg’s Raisin Bran has two full scoops of raisins in every box awareness month in town here. Your July may vary however.
At some point, the really important causes (I’m no longer talking about child abuse) have to graduate from awareness to prevention.
Douches.
By the way, in March there’s actually a no swearing week in South Pasadena, CA. Fuck no swearing week.
Filed under: Commentary, Rants
Fake Larry said:
This is like DeeJay saying beer commercials are wrong or MaT saying Obama is not fit for election. Or Jeff saying anything bad at anything at all.
This is coming from the guy who believes homeless people have no souls.
immazombiefiend said:
It makes sense though…why only a month for child abuse awareness or AIDS prevention…
I have thought about this a time or two myself. It makes no sense to me what so ever.
People make up these events to make themselves look like they have done something good with their lives.
Like Steve says, it should be year round, not just a month or a week….
I agree completely with this.
Stevie-poo said:
Homeless people don’t have souls. It’s a scientific fact.
MaT said:
The point of something like an “awareness week” or “prevention month” is not to say that it’s wrong ONLY during that week/month, it’s just a way to raise the issue into the collective consciousness. It’s a way for all the different organizations and groups to coordinate events and get information out to the people.
It’s just impossible for everybody in the country to be AWARE of every single thing for all causes. Take Black History Month as an example. By your reasoning, the entire concept is stupid and should be abolished. Just taking me personally, I’ve learned a great deal of information I otherwise would not have ever had access to, or even thought about, because of it. I’ve actually met two of the people who marched in Selma. You can even go smaller scale and point to the media attention, television programs, and discussion that occur as a result of these “awareness” weeks/months.
The point is, they don’t hurt anything. So they bring some attention to topics that most people wouldn’t pay any attention to, what’s the big deal with that? And you know what…
….many people do begin thinking about these things “year round” after they’ve been informed about it!
That was a poor rant, Steve. I expect much better from you
Stevie-poo said:
As with the pizza issue MaT, you are wrong.
And yes, Black History Month as well as every other special week/month is stupid. Not because Black History is irrelavent in any way, shape, or form, but because it should be celebrated every month. Not just February.
Fake Larry said:
April is Hopenosis Awareness Month. Find someone you care about who suffers from it, and give them the help they need by slapping the shit out of them and shouting at them to wake up.
It’s one to grow on!
Jeff said:
I don’t let it grind my gears like Stevie-poo, but I do pretty much agree with him conceptually.
Mat made a curious statment in his comment: “I’ve learned a great deal of information I otherwise would not have ever had access to …”
What do you mean “would never have had access to”? It’s not like the library is locked except during various awareness events. This is a symptom of Hopenosis, the idea that you can’t actually do anything on your own without some governmental body holding your hand and leading you around
That said, I think Mat’s point is fine: Having some event to spotlight a given issue is a perfectly okay thing to do. It just seems like “caring” is a big business now and I bristle at being told “Hey man, you should care about X today!”
Fake Larry said:
There’s no rule that says a good idea can’t also be employed as a political tool and not remain a good idea. It may bear very little resemblance to that idea after being warped into self-serving P.R., but there’s a few nice people in there somewhere who are genuinely interested in helping people. Hint: they’re not politicians.
MaT said:
what I meant by “access” is more along the lines of “this information would have never even crossed my radar if my attention hadn’t been drawn to it” sort of thing.
Example: if there were no “black history month”, i might not be nudged into giving any type of thought to it. Sure, there is a library full of information, but if I’m not even thinking about that subject then there will be no need for me to seek that information out. A black history month makes me go “oh, that’s intriguing, maybe I will take a look at this”
You republicans just can’t “get” how we liberals phrase things
Frank Zanzibar Rose said:
YEAH FUCK NO SWEARING MONTH!
toXsick said:
What month is no Uwe Boll month?
Oh right, that’s every month.
Braden said:
Oddly enough, for once I agree with Mat. I think they’re fine and they don’t really hurt anything. I’m in the same boat as him. At work they put up some posters with some interesting facts. I ended up coming home and spending some time on Wikipedia.
I do agree that they can get pretty ridiculous though. No swearing week is dumb and a waste of time that could be better spent on something important.
Jeff said:
I saw a press release from the Governor today saying that April is alcohol awareness month. I’ll drink some alcohol to celebrate.
Frank Zanzibar Rose said:
hell yeah i’m with jeff on that one…..tequlia at my place tonight!
t.j.roe said:
Fuck Pasadena.