Insensitive post
The bike pirates post about men riding little girls bikes came out of anger. All of these really shitty things happened right around the same time and I've been really mad at the world. Mad and frustrated. First of all I have been on-call more than usual for my volunteer job. This job involves doing crisis counseling in the emergency room with victims of sexual assault. The stories people tell me weigh very heavily on my consciousness. How can one human being do that to another! And get away with it! ARG! Add to that the fact that my friend's mom was beaten by her husband and her apartment was trashed. The guy locked her in her own bathroom and demanded money for drugs, threatened to harm her kittens and took everything out of the refrigerator and thew it up against a wall. Did anything happen to him? No, not really. He was held for a short time in jail but is out now. That same weekend my bike was stolen. Also around the same time I heard of someone being intentionally hit by some guy in an astrovan at Critical Mass. All of this resulted in me being very angry. After hearing about all of these things and then having my bike stolen... it was like the wires in my head crossed and then when I saw a guy riding a brand new bright pink little girls bike, the first thing i thought was, "That asshole! He stole it." It was a stupid assumption, I realize that. I'm not sure what to do with all of this anger and frustration. I want to continue to help people (I am also a nurse) but I am afraid that I'm developing this shitty attitude about humanity. I'm losing hope. War, racism, rape, domestic violence, children getting their limbs blown off by land-mines (see http://www.emergencyusa.org/GP/img/press%20kit.pdf)!? What the hell is going on? Its madness, and I don't know what to do.