Thought Sparkk

Today I'll be god.  Today I'll watch every single rape that is happening with folded arms.  I will not intervene to stop it.  Today I'll watch the drunkard get behind the wheel with cold indifference.  I will not prevent the fatal accident that kills a family of 4.  Today I'll stand by and watch the millions of men, women, and children starving to death across the world and do nothing.  I will not provide a means of survival to those people.  They are on their own.  Today I'll watch disease and plagues ravage the globe.  I will not provide a cure for these afflictions and because I do this thousands of children will perish every year in agonizing fashion.  Today I'll watch those who died without belief in me burn in agony as they have for millennia.  I will not give them an ounce of mercy.  I will remain unmoved in the face of eternal brutality. It turns out that being god for a day doesn't change my life much at all.  W...

Everywhere I look there are campaigns about how women are pigeon-holed into certain molds of what is beautiful.  Video game characters are too thin and busty.  Models are too thin.  Store mannequins do not represent all body types equally.  Our culture is now rampant with this feminine beauty reform.  But, I have recently noticed one very interesting thing.  There is no movement like this on the male side of things.  Don't get me wrong, I'm fine with this, because I can separate fiction from reality inside my own brain.  But it is an interesting commentary on the difference between men and women when it comes to body image.  Women, in my experience, tend to be far less capable of accepting themselves and their own body image purely based on their own internal thoughts.  They have to constantly be reminded each and every day by themselves and everyone and everything else around them that they are beautiful.  Men do not.  Let's g...