All about Funk: Lesson #1
Today’s “All about Funk”, is a very simple lesson.
“If it happens to them, it can happen to me, and if you are on my list of people I care something about, then it happened to me.”
So when I rant about something, don’t always assume that it happened to me directly. It could of happened to you, and if I hold you in any kind of esteem, if I think you to be the victim of fucked up shit, then I take the incident personally, and it pisses me off as if I was on the receiving end.
It’s one of the reasons I retreat to the World of Warcraft, the World of Movies, or just in general Escapism. Because in those escapist worlds, there is usally resolution, some kind of ending, something that either I or the characters did to rectify that situation. Can’t do that in real life it seems.
Here I’ll even give you an example to go along with today’s lesson. Ironic however that it comes from one of those escapist worlds.
The character Athena on Battlestar Gallactica, happens to be a defector of the Cylon race. A race of machines that are indistinguishiable from humans, except for the way their cells are made. In an episode a military group decides to interigate her. Their methods of making her talk? Rape, Abuse, etc. The Rape doesn’t happen… stopped right before it starts. But what bothered me to this day is the mindset that generated this quote: “How can you rape a machine?”
Wait a tick. For all intents and purposes that ‘machine’ you were so eager to stick your dick into, to make talk, is human. You can’t even tell there is a difference unless you’ve seen that face before OR they go wooly and try to kill you. Science can’t even tell them apart…. but because you think she’s just a machine it’s alright to do whatever you bloody feel like?
If you can’t see why that pisses me off.. hell if that doesn’t piss you off then you have no fucking business in existance.