Current Events And Stuff.
Soph here...
I've got an assignment to do, so obviously the only thing I'm not interested in doing right now, is my assignment. I've gotta find a news article relating to violence in the media, and after two hours of intensive searching and about three days of relaxed searching, I've found one. On how TV wrestling makes people fight on dates, with their partners. Of the women who took the survey, those who watched TV wrestling in the past two weeks six times or more and 170 percent more likely to initiate a fight on a date.
What I can't work out is if it means fight-fight like 'I hate you, you're SO not getting any tonight' or fight-fight like 'Where is the nearest hospital'. I hope that it's the first one. I think it's unfair though. It's not taking variables into account. Dates are problematic and so hard to get right. You're usually in the wrong place with someone who is meant to know you better, or in the right place with someone you really don't want to get to know better. Or otherwise you're just in one of those infamous female moods where ripping someone's head of (ie the man you love) is just the best idea in the world.
Either way.
And hey, check it out. Hate to say 'I told you so' but John Mark Karr has been cleared of possible charges regarding the murder of Jon-Benet Ramsey, due to the COMPLETE lack of evidence. Enough evidence to cause a media frenzy, mind you. Enough evidence to warrant dragging him back from Singapore. YAY media - had us all foaming at the mouth with excitement, but neglected to mention a few things. Like how he was heavily into researching the case, only a few years after it happened (also going as far as to begin writing a book about another case similar, in California). How he communicated at length with under-cover police agents via the internet, phone calls to people he met in chat rooms, talking about Jon-Benet. How he tried to initiate meetings with Patsy Ramsey in her final days. Don't get me wrong, I think it's truly, truly terrible that all of this has happened. For a child to die in such a way is unforgivable. For the media to feast on the story the way it has for the past ten years, is disgusting, for Patsy Ramsey to die without ever gaining any headway on what happened to her daughter is tragic. But for a man to be assumed guilty based on ONE piece of evidence (his word) is just ludicrous, when he's KNOWN to have been extremely interested in the case for years previously. What implications does this have for him, I wonder. Because clearly, very clearly, he's insane. Given the sketchy accounts of his questionable relationship with children over the years, where to from here? Does he get put in prison for the child pornography charges he's being extradited to California for? Or is he just free to go? And if he is in prison, does that actually help him heal? Does it help to correct the fundamental problems a person MUST have to desire a relationship with, or think about children in the way he has. What good in prison time? And even if he is head-shrinked, is he beyond help?
I've been reading stories about the, IMO, slow progression of legal movement against John Mark Karr since the story first broke, and the only really tangible feeling I come away from the whole thing with is sadness. I feel sorry for the Ramsey family, to feel as though they're so close, only to be back where they started. And I feel sorry for John Mark Karr. I pity him. Because He must have problems the media can't fathom, or communicate to us. And I feel sorry for his sons, and the fact that they probably have the internet, and probably do find mention of their father more and more often. And more often than not, I'd say it's hate caused by lack of understanding, and fear, that suffuses comments about John Mark Karr.
I was going to post this on Jace's site but decided he might not want it there, seeing as it's a PRETTY boring, rambling post about nothing. Mostly just things I've been thinking about. And most definetly a way to procrastinate before attacking my assignment...
I've got an assignment to do, so obviously the only thing I'm not interested in doing right now, is my assignment. I've gotta find a news article relating to violence in the media, and after two hours of intensive searching and about three days of relaxed searching, I've found one. On how TV wrestling makes people fight on dates, with their partners. Of the women who took the survey, those who watched TV wrestling in the past two weeks six times or more and 170 percent more likely to initiate a fight on a date.
What I can't work out is if it means fight-fight like 'I hate you, you're SO not getting any tonight' or fight-fight like 'Where is the nearest hospital'. I hope that it's the first one. I think it's unfair though. It's not taking variables into account. Dates are problematic and so hard to get right. You're usually in the wrong place with someone who is meant to know you better, or in the right place with someone you really don't want to get to know better. Or otherwise you're just in one of those infamous female moods where ripping someone's head of (ie the man you love) is just the best idea in the world.
Either way.
And hey, check it out. Hate to say 'I told you so' but John Mark Karr has been cleared of possible charges regarding the murder of Jon-Benet Ramsey, due to the COMPLETE lack of evidence. Enough evidence to cause a media frenzy, mind you. Enough evidence to warrant dragging him back from Singapore. YAY media - had us all foaming at the mouth with excitement, but neglected to mention a few things. Like how he was heavily into researching the case, only a few years after it happened (also going as far as to begin writing a book about another case similar, in California). How he communicated at length with under-cover police agents via the internet, phone calls to people he met in chat rooms, talking about Jon-Benet. How he tried to initiate meetings with Patsy Ramsey in her final days. Don't get me wrong, I think it's truly, truly terrible that all of this has happened. For a child to die in such a way is unforgivable. For the media to feast on the story the way it has for the past ten years, is disgusting, for Patsy Ramsey to die without ever gaining any headway on what happened to her daughter is tragic. But for a man to be assumed guilty based on ONE piece of evidence (his word) is just ludicrous, when he's KNOWN to have been extremely interested in the case for years previously. What implications does this have for him, I wonder. Because clearly, very clearly, he's insane. Given the sketchy accounts of his questionable relationship with children over the years, where to from here? Does he get put in prison for the child pornography charges he's being extradited to California for? Or is he just free to go? And if he is in prison, does that actually help him heal? Does it help to correct the fundamental problems a person MUST have to desire a relationship with, or think about children in the way he has. What good in prison time? And even if he is head-shrinked, is he beyond help?
I've been reading stories about the, IMO, slow progression of legal movement against John Mark Karr since the story first broke, and the only really tangible feeling I come away from the whole thing with is sadness. I feel sorry for the Ramsey family, to feel as though they're so close, only to be back where they started. And I feel sorry for John Mark Karr. I pity him. Because He must have problems the media can't fathom, or communicate to us. And I feel sorry for his sons, and the fact that they probably have the internet, and probably do find mention of their father more and more often. And more often than not, I'd say it's hate caused by lack of understanding, and fear, that suffuses comments about John Mark Karr.
I was going to post this on Jace's site but decided he might not want it there, seeing as it's a PRETTY boring, rambling post about nothing. Mostly just things I've been thinking about. And most definetly a way to procrastinate before attacking my assignment...