In Celebration of my 20th Post....

I'm going to do a couple of lists that will probably bore people half to death! :)

Things that bother me about Society (and make me angry):

1. Objectification
2. Treatment of environments (tree felling, exhausts, etc)
3. Misogyny
4. Discrimination (Race, Class, Gender, Disability, Age etc)
5. Shallowness/Self obsession (caring about other people goes a long way)
6. Corporations (The Body Shop has sold out and been sold to L'Oreal)
7. Cruelty (every kind of cruelty - humans, animals, environment etc)
8. Torture (ties in with cruelty but the army still tends to torture people at times, and it is rife in some countries)
9. Labels (although they help to identify people sometimes, I don't like that people get labelled negatively or are defined by their 'labels')
10. Glamourisation of negative things (Drugs, Porn, Violence etc)
11. The Media - the backbiting, celebrity obsessed and objectifying kind

Things I Like about Life:

1. Being able to question things and not take them for granted
2. The Arts (in particular Theatre and Music)
3. Films that make you think
4. Feminism (because it's a force for good)
5. Sunny afternoons at the end of the day
6. Laughter (hearing and doing)
7. Proper smiles (not the kind that look like smirks or are only half hearted)
8. Reading...everything and anything
9. Writing
10. Listening to people's stories or opinions

Things I believe in:

1. Love and Respect
2. Equality and Difference
3. That if enough people shout, their voices will be heard
4. That many things have been socially constructed
5. That life is something to celebrate (we are alive!!)
6. Evolution is probably fairly truthful but it cannot explain everything
7. Fulfilment cannot be found in acquisition of more things
8. Knowledge is the road to enlightenment (lol)