*throws self on fire*

[channonyarrow]

Things I Really Fucking Hate, Part The Bajillionth:

- Steve Irwin. He taunted animals. Animals taunted back and won. Paleoanthropological theory proved!
- Timothy Treadwell. Though I admit, I got a laugh out of it when I asked my mother if he'd been eaten yet and she said yes.
- "Safe space". What the fuck? When this is applied to a hate comm like cf_hardcore, do they really need a "safe space"? They're haters, dude. If they can't take it, they should shut the fuck up.
- On a related note, the entire concept that somewhere needs to be fucking sanitised For Your Protection makes me nuts. The world does not come with safety straps and it would suck if it did.
- Basically, I'm getting the idea that a "safe space" is somewhere where the nasty ol' world can't come poke you with a stick. Reasonable in small doses, perhaps - but guaranteed to make me froth at the mouth.
- Pathetic Political Posturing. Did you know that Iraq and the War On Terror are linked? After all those years of saying that they're not - they suddenly are. Oh, Joe Lieberman, how I wish to eat your liver.
- Joe Lieberman. Creepy when the VP candidate, pathetic loser now.
- Lawyers. I can't tell you why, because I work in Corporate America, and therefore it is confidential.
- Airline security. On the other hand, at least we're not only dissin' on the Muslims now. The latest instance of someone being thrown off a plane (and forcing the return of the plane to the gate) was a Hasidic Jew who spoke neither English nor French (on an Air Canada flight) who started praying. Clearly, a terrorist. Terrorists often pray, as do normal citizens. Therefore, normal citizens are, clearly, all terrorists.

More as it makes me angry.

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[hammerheadshrk.livejournal.com]

"Slavery is the social and legal designation of specific persons as property, for the purpose of providing labor and services for the owner without the right of the slave to refuse, or gain compensation." -Wikipedia

I'm struggling to be compassionate. The author so clearly and beautifully laid out the deeper reasons so many people hated this man; his complete lack of resect for nature. Irwin was the real-estate develpoer of nature show personalities, paying his way to fame with animals' fear and anger. Putting a camera in the presence of an animal does not respect for nature make; in fact, IMO, when you chase that animal down, antagonise it, harrass it into an extreme of fear or anger until it attacks you, then make money off of its reaction and keep the proceeds - well, that's just slavery.

Irwin was callous, he was cruel. He abused, frightened, and invaded upon living beings until they gave him the reaction he wanted, with no remorse to whatever being he was tormenting. When we do that to other people, we call it torture.

The author showed the Irwin was not only willing to do this to animals, his crew, and himself, he was willing to use his own baby to further those ends. The category of 'other' is what one must sort people, places, or things into prerequisite to abusing or destroying them. Most acts of destruction occur under this assigned division of legitimency. The giraffe is 'other'(than human, than real, than sentient, etc.)so I will kill it for its skin. The Tibetan is 'other' (than Chinese, than human, than worthy of respect or peace) so I will kil it and take its home and land as my own. I

It's the spirit of subjugation, of consumation, that Irwin showed toward this world that made his end so poetic - to die a painful, primitive death, issued by a primitive animal's single self-defense weapon, in one silent, efficient strike.

I am failing to be compassionate. He taunted, harassed, antagonized, and invaded upon my space - my planet, my fellow living beings - over and over and over. I am biting back. I'll use his dead body to enrich my experience the way he used my planet's to enrich his - as one big joke.