This is an interesting article written by Mark Steyn regarding breast cancer and the feminist movement. In his own way, he sums up what many social conservatives (who are not anti-women) feel about how it is "cool" to "support the cause" and how the whole breast cancer thing is more about clothes and ribbons than actually being useful.
This article amused me because of how relate-able it was and wasn't simultaneously. I was also born in 1991, but I remember the shows and fads spoken of only as reruns and out of style. When I first read this article, I wanted to look up actual air dates, but couldn't justify wasting the time. Well now I can...
Lastly, this article strikes me as interesting because it shows two sides of America: the compassionate and the mind-your-own-business side. In Syria, there is much wondering of how the political situation will turn out. While some foreign policy such as Jefferson's invasion of Tripoli during the First Barbary War to stop pirates attacking civilian US ships, other instances such as the Bay of Pigs and the Vietnam Conflict have turned into fiascoes. We are at a crossroads now when we decide what the UN (or rather, the US in disguise, be it fiscally or physically) will do in Syria.
That whole breast cancer article is interesting. I never thought the supporters were very shallow, but maybe they are. I guess it depends on the person. This could be interesting to analyze
ReplyDeletei dont want to generalize all supporters, but i think the 15-year-old kids wearing shirts that say "i like boobies" are not too concerned about breast cancer as much as being a hormonal teenager...
DeleteI like the article about the children of the 1990's. She brings up good points in it. Though I don't know what the argument was.
ReplyDeletethe argument she makes is that there are 20-year-olds that are "children of the 90s." none of us are; real children of the 90s were born in the 80s... the things she talks about were already out of style by the time our generation could remember things.
ReplyDeleteAny of these will work great, Alex. Full steam ahead.
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