boo.

Can i just interrupt, for a moment?

Regarding the food aid situation in Haiti:

Food distribution thus far has often been marked by poor coordination, vast gaps in coverage, and desperate, unruly lines of needy people in which young men at times shoved aside the women and weak and took their food.

No way, young men were shoving aside women? Is that a greater crime than the fact that the world always seems to have a really difficult time helping those in need? Is it so strange to think that a man could possibly be hungrier than a woman? After all, wouldn't women be more likely to have recently eaten, due to the fact that they are women, and therefore more likely to receive help? And aren't men more likely to be the ones called upon to perform laborious tasks and heavy lifting (because they are 'stronger', duh), thereby increasing their caloric needs? And does this mean that the men in question (or any others, for that matter) were not also bullying other men out of their food? And does it mean that not a single woman was guilty of food theft? My guess is no. But you win, AP article: my heartstrings are hereby tugged.

Sometimes i just get tired of all the gender crap. Women and children first, blah blah blah. People are people, people are hungry, people are desperate. Obviously i'm not condoning shoving women and stealing their food rations (dick move), but i'm not sure that women deserve those rations more than men, simply by the fact that they have a twice the x chromosomes. UNLESS: they are breast-feeding mothers. Seems fairly obvious.

Now, i'm not trying to say that chivalry is dead (r.i.p. chivalry, and good riddance), just that humans should be treated equally. Anyway, i'm sure someone, somewhere has said this much more astutely than i, so i'll let it be for now. Class dismissed.