Hmm...

There are some small things that bother me on and off. But lazy as I am, I don't have much to say about them except for a few comments. Except that it not all times due to laziness, but also because too many people have been talking about it.

1. Rihanna/Chris Brown - I do not know what happened between them and no one is really clear about it. Has she come out with a statement? I'm not sure. However, on FB, I saw an icon for 'Throw Rihanna at your friend' in the Hug Me Application. Frankly, that appalls me. Considering the number of people, the kind of people, the kids and the youth using FB, this is a bad move by the developers of that application and I do think FB should take responsibility for this application.

Domestic abuse is not a joke and certainly cannot be a game or be mocked at. What does FB mean when it says 'throw a Rihanna?' Does it mean treat your friend like Chris Brown treated Rihanna? Or does it mean something very American pop-culturish that my Desi mind doesn't seem to grasp?

Personally, I don't like it. I don't like the fact that something like Domestic Abuse has been trivialized this way.

2. Obama: I admit I'm a huge fan of Barack Obama. And I'm not ashamed to admit it. While I may not agree with everything he says or does, I do understand that he is a human being like any of us and cannot live the ideal lives for all of us. Let alone his life. He cannot adopt a shelter dog just because some of us feel for that issue. I do feel shelter dogs need to be adopted more vigorously than pedigree pups, but in this particular case, I support the Obama family in prioritising their daughters' allergies over an image of the President that the country'd like to see. If you voted for Obama because he 'promised' to adopt a shelter dog, then, I'm sorry, your priorities are all wrong in this time and age.

At the same time, I've read umpteen blogs and umpteen Editorials about the failure of the current Govt. I'm no fan of America and its policies as is evident from this blog. But I do think that this Govt needs time. We need to let them do their thing before judging them. Stop judging them just because they are politicians. I personally believe politics is not a dirty job. Some people in it make the profession dirty, and that's about it. Again, am not saying Obama is the best person to handle anything and everything thrown at the US at this point in time, but then, we've voted for him since he was the best choice then, and more importantly, while we do constructively criticize his policies, we should remember that he is still new to the job. All of us know how bureaucrats work. All of us know how a new leader is always in trouble managing a team with old ideas used to old ways. Remember the last time you took over a project from a colleague?

3. Our prejudices: Recently, several states in the US reconsidered their stand on same-sex marriages. I'm quite happy about it. I do have a lot of friends who are homosexuals and respect them for taking a stand in an absolutely unsupportive society as ours. I'm no saint who is not prejudiced. However, something recently made me think.

http://twitpic.com/2hpih/full
The headline reads: Mickey Rourke asks ex-Russian boxer to marry him.

A friend tweeted this and spoke about how he was surprised to find that he was prejudiced. He thought that Rourke was gay.

However, I thought of something else different altogether. Can't a woman be a boxer? Is that why he thought that the boxer was considered male, and so Rourke considered gay?

I know I will be labelled a feminist for thinking this way. But hey, I certainly didn't think beyond the fact that Rourke was getting married to someone. Is it because I'm a woman that I thought that way? Or, what is it?

Sorry I had to just vent it out. I know this is not a great post or anything, but just some things that made me go : hmm...