As some of you may know, my dad was diagnosed with a brain tumour in
March. He had to go to Vancouver to get it operated on in April, and
they got about 80% of it.
Now we just learned he has to go to Seattle for radiation to try and get rid of the rest of it.
He’s
going to be living there for at least a month starting in June,
probably longer, and I would love to be able to go down there and visit
him and take care of him.
I am living on my own right now and
have a lot of bills, and I can’t do it on my own. I’ve never really
reached out like this before, and I don’t expect to get anything, but
even the smallest donation will help me. Honestly, if you want to donate, whatever you can
contribute would be more than enough.
I keep thinking how much more powerful the Spiderman origin story would be if Peter Parker was an African American kid, whose Uncle Ben was shot by police while being arrested for a minor parking infraction. There is no formal investigation, and Peter decides to put himself on the line to prevent it happening again. He tackles the white crimes that go unpunished, punishes POC criminals fairly. He is the leveler, always fighting to be without bias, to be just. To protect people like his uncle.
This not only mirrors so much of what’s happening in America, but feeds right into the complex relationship between Spiderman, the authorities and the media.
Peter Parker is a brilliant student, awkward, a nerd, but is branded a thug, a gang member, a criminal, because of his appearance. The media latch on to that and misrepresent him totally.
The police, humilitated by the fact that he refuses to work with them and often punishes cops themselves for brutalizing innocent people, or guilty people who still deserve better treatment than they get, attempt to hunt him down.
Dear axe, your ad is horrible. Let me explain how:
1) It objectifies women. 2) It tells young men with female friends that they are not “real men”. 3) It tells young women that “real” men don’t want to be their friends, they only want to “tear” their clothing off. 4) It insults men with braids. 5) It is advertising a crappy body spray.
Okay, that last one was just my opinion. The others are facts.
