Green Room - Week 25 - Day 7

[clauderainsrm.livejournal.com]

Fortunately, I waited to mention LJ's newest promotion until Hitler was brought into it. You know you are having a good, informative discussion on an important issue when someone brings up Hitler!

Hitler is the Ceiling Cat of Internet fights, he sees all and he solves every problem! When you have nothing else in your argument tank, just pull out "This is just like Hitler" and things will magically make sense again.

A close second (IMO - YMMV) is slavery. Comparing an privately owned company's decision to donate to a charitable organization is exactly like them supporting slavery. (If I have to point out that I'm being sarcastic here, I am going to take away your right to be on the internet card. Don't make me come down there and do that. I can turn this car around right now, and then no one will get ice cream!)

Then again, when the charitable organization is Planned Parenthood and the privately owned company is Livejournal, you had to know there were going to be some "interesting" responses.

I imagine the same people upset with this due to Planned Parenthood's involvement with abortions will soon be moving on to protest Wal-Mart for selling electronics. Because it's about the same share of the business.

There are certainly important issues involved with the "Pro-Choice and Pro-Life" debates, and I doubt that people will come to any real agreement any time soon on the "when does life begin" conversation. Just from today, it seems that it turned into "baby murdering Hitlers" on one side to "the founding fathers were racists" on the other. Where any of this fits into the discussion about women's reproductive health makes as much sense to me as why there is a conversation going on about women's reproductive health in the first place, seems like a no-brainer to give as much access as possible to as much as is needed. *shrug* What do I know?

What I DO know is that Livejournal is having a donation drive: http://theljstaff.livejournal.com/5366.html
I know that a LOT of the people reading this already know about it, because I saw it on our Friends List first, and figured it was something important enough to comment on.

I also know that given all of the hits that LJ has taken over the last couple of years, supporting an issue that has such wide support among the general base (even if it might alienate some people in the process, who don't like that organization) is a great PR move. Kudos to whoever came up with the idea, From a PR standpoint, it gets people reposting your branding and in some cases, your actual post. Which is never a bad thing from a marketing perspective.

Most of all though, I know that LJ IDOL is endorsing one thing, and one thing only - the current poll, which is closing later today: http://therealljidol.livejournal.com/562742.html

If someone that you love needs extra care, don't take it to Planned Parenthood, they will just look at you like you've gone crazy - instead, let people know if they are missing out on a hidden gem of an entry!!

Comments

[pixiebelle.livejournal.com]

You're welcome :)

I'd never watched it until recently. Java started coming over on Wednesday nights and that's his show, which I'm starting to like too. I just haven't had TV in so long, I had never watched it before. Last night was a good show and led to more interesting nightmares for me :p

[alien-infinity.livejournal.com]

Since your nightmares seem to produce fabulous story ideas, I would say that's a good thing? Of course, I'm not the one having the nightmares! My bad dreams are way less exciting than yours. Perhaps vaguely related to the Planned Parenthood "controversy," I dreamed last night of trying to infiltrate illegally an evangelical summer camp kind of place and then having to run from the law. There were ponies, too. My brain, it is random.

[pixiebelle.livejournal.com]

I'm starting to think they are a good thing too. Though last night, that one wasn't a story idea in the making so much. I dreamt that a group of people broke into my house and out of fear, I just helped them to anything of value and tried to be friendly as possible so they wouldn't kill me. I was stressing about them letting my pets out and remember asking if I could lock my cat in the bathroom and crate Annabelle because my worst fear is losing them.... Then as they got done robbing me, I thought I was safe at last until the head guy pulled out an ice pick (that came from Criminal Minds) and said he had to kill me. So I ran for help and even though I ran into a house with an eldest couple in it, they couldn't hear my screams and the guy followed me. That's where it ended.

Your dream could be writing fodder too actually :)

[alien-infinity.livejournal.com]

Unsolicited dream interpretation: your dream is a combo of simply picking up stuff from Criminal Minds AND anxiety about being "too nice" based off a previous Green Room.

My dream as story fodder? Perhaps. It might have been a result of the the story I'm currently working on, because that one features organized religion as a MAJOR part of the plot and world. There could well be evangelical summer camps (that need to be infiltrated?) in the story's universe.

[pixiebelle.livejournal.com]

That sounds about right :)

I'm having a lot more nightmares than usual these days. I blame the work stress and insecurities. Most of them are generally related to that. Another common theme I'm having? At the end of the clown doll dream, after the clown killed, he left a husk of himself. Like a snake losing its skin. At the end of the werewolf dream? The wolf was gone and there was a husk of the wolf, just his skin shredded outside my door. What could that mean?!?

I think that sounds like a great idea for your world!

[alien-infinity.livejournal.com]

Wild guess dream interpretation: maybe you're afraid of things' never getting better. Maybe you fear always having your icky job and icky stresses follow you around, leaving husks of themselves in your mind even if you get a new job? Maybe you're afraid of always having your insecurities, represented by the husks?

[kathrynrose.livejournal.com]

he left a husk of himself. Like a snake losing its skin.

I think that's about you wanting the change in job/career. That's a symbol of a new start, a birth of sorts.