Okay. I haven't written in this in forever. But I totally need this. I am angsty and roar and just everything. I need to rant. Let's go!
So, I play Gaia. Yep, lame, but whatever, it's somthing to do when I'm mindlessly staring at the bright screen of my MacBook, as I've run out of flash games with the same repeated puzzles and adventures and the like. Well, anyway, on Gaia I frequent this one charity thread. I'm drawn to charity threads, I guess, as the people are usually friendly and whatnot, and I enjoy the nonchalant banter and discussion. There's this thing that the mods of the charity came up with, where they have an entire post dedicated to awareness ribbons--those coloured ribbons that signify diseases or memorandum of those lost at war or whatnot. So, the idea was, all of the regulars go on the wiki page and choose what colours and how many ribbons we want up there; I thought this was pretty neat by this point. I found that the wiki page was pretty vague, only having a few colours with some main causes, so I googled awareness ribbon colours because I really wanted to find one for lung cancer. Lung cancer is one of the things that hits me really hard, I hate it, it vexes me and makes my blood boil. Eventually, I found a website that has the ribbons alphabetized by cause--great! I added some colours to my list and sent the website along with my list to the moderator. Lung cancer is the pearl ribbon, by the way. So, all is well and the girl is like, "That's great, but I'm not going to share the link with everyone because it will get confusing." Yeah, fine, whatever. But then she sends a message back to me after I say that's fine. Well, you see, the ribbons on the site I found were of a different style than the wiki ones and the ones that were not on the wiki would be posted on the thread in that different style. Furthermore, she singles out the pearl ribbon and says that she is going to remove it because it 'annoys her' and doesn't fit in. WHAT THE FUCK? I mean, I know that she has no idea that it is the most important ribbon to me, but it shouldn't matter. These are about awareness, who the fuck cares if the ribbons aren't all the same style? It's what matters most to those who share the ribbons, it doesn't matter any less than anyone else's choice of ribbon. Jesus Christ. I'm on the verge of requesting her to remove all of the ribbons I selected. It was an insensitive move that was overall juvenile and completely of self-interest in a situation that is supposed to be in thinking of others.
I feel a little better now. I'm glad. Alright then.. Thanks.
