Generally when people come to my blog, they’re catching up on toilet training, barfing, mental breakdowns….you know all the awesome stuff about parenthood! Every now and then though…I need to pull it out, step up on it and let it fly. So excuse me for a minute….yup, okay…I’ve got my soapbox and I’m getting on it.
Driving home today from work today, listening to the news, I felt like I was going to see a horse and carriage next to me on the Gardiner and get home to meet the milkman for my daily egg drop.
Tonight, our tax dollars are being put to use to pay our MPs to vote essentially on reopening the abortion debate in Canada. Really? We’re going back there? Here’s my thing. Whether you agree or not with abortion – that’s totally your choice. I would never try to convince you of my opinion and I would hope you would respect mine. BUT, can we agree that no one should be able to tell us what we can and can’t do to our own bodies? I’ll never understand how there can be a debate about choice? I’ll do what I want to my bod…and you do what you want to yours? Simplistic. Maybe. But does everything need to be complicated?
Next up? Sports. Stanley Cup Playoffs. So much excitement – so many game sevens! Last night Toronto boy, Joel Ward scored the overtime goal for the Washington Capitals to take the defending champs, the Boston Bruins, out of the playoffs. Joel Ward is black. Why do I need to tell you that? I shouldn’t have to in this freaking day and age should I? Well instead of being able to just bask in his awesomeness, Ward has been hammered all over twitter with horrific racial attacks. Are you kidding me? I’m not sure why this shocks me so badly in the age of the Trayvon Martin shooting but I am. So disgusted. So shocked. It seriously just makes me sick to my stomach.
Conclusion? I need to turn off the news and go back to blasting my Adele and singing my heart out on the drive home. Sure I arrive home wanting to eat a tub of ice cream and sob on my couch BUT at least I’m just concerned about my lacking love life and not the state of all mankind!!!!!
Tucking my soapbox away now for another day…..
Oh, this makes me tired. I have a daughter who is brilliant, beautiful, outspoken and brave. That she will grow up in a country with a bunch of narrow-minded men attempting to govern her body makes me sad for all of us. We need to fix this.
Please pull out that soapbox any time you want, Sara. It’s easier to turn off the news and stick our heads in the ground, but it’s so much healthier to vent and rail against the machine.
Seriously, I just don’t know what is wrong with people.
Sometimes, Twitter scares me – the CRAZY PANTS people come out in droves… and it’s so frightening to think for every tweet, there have to be scores of others who feel the same, but say nothing. It’s disappointing. And gross.
And oh my god, politicians – this abortion debate? AGAIN?! *head hits desk*
I can’t even.
That is what happens when you elect neo-cons. So sad.