Sunday, May 16, 2010

'INSERT' History Month

Asian history month, black history month, womens history month, gay&lesbian month, um...vertically challenged multi colored D&D fan month...point is it seems there's a month out for just about everybody these days, with the exception of whites and males. Now I'm not about to start a rant about how I'm offended by this and how I think whites and males deserve a month too, cause quite frankly I couldn't care less. All these times of the year do is stress that the group in name is more important and/or should be payed more attention to during these 30 days. It also, whether intentionally or unintentionally, goes against the entire concept of the people having a month. The reason all these groups of people have months is because at one point or another the group was mistreated and everyone thought they'd make it better by saying "ok during this time of the year, its YOUR time." But in the end all the groups wanted was to be treated as equals (or so they say) Yet the only thing these months do, is imply the opposite. Its saying 'hey its black history month. start paying attention to all the things blacks have done, but pay attention now cause its their month, yes they are special'. Maybe its just me, but personally I don't like the idea of the BLANK-history month. Maybe someday we WILL achieve equality and people will stop seeing in terms like this...and maybe someday I'll trip over a stack of gold bars and fall down next to the winning lottery ticket paperclipped to the map to atlantis underneath the foot of a naked supermodel.

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