When is enough enough

I was recently watching a news program that was talking about Nike and their new advertisements. In the advertisements we have men depicted dunking on other men with slogans that are derogatory to the buys still on the ground. Due to some unfortunate placement of the men gay activist took it upon themselves to protest the ads calling them "homophobic". It is things like this that make me question, "when is it going to stop?"

This is much like the Snickers fiasco a few years ago. Two men both eating a Snickers bar and as they work to the middle they kiss. In a typical reaction of nearly any straight man I know they decide they must do something manly. Ripping their chest hair out they were able to achieve a sense of control over their hetero nature. I am making this a lot more serious than what it is but the point being most men I know in that kind of situation would do anything they can to remove themselves from it. Is this any different than the discomfort a gay man would feel kissing a woman? This too was frowned upon by the gay community and the ad was pulled.

People! Stop taking yourselves so seriously. Develop a sense of humor and try to understand perspectives that you may not see. More important, pick battles that mean something. What will be next? Fat people suing fashion magazines for promoting an unhealthy body image? This needs to stop. Maybe instead of focusing on things like the non-issue of advertising we should instead focus on the AIDs epidemic in Africa, genocide in countries around the world, sex slavery in nations including our own that rob women of their humanity, and thousands of other issues that really matter. Frankly, it took me days to work through the hatred of humanity to get to the point I could write this.

You let me down every day and show me just how much we are all like cattle, just waiting for the next hot button issue to graze upon instead of choosing life and love and the helping hand. I shake my head and misanthropy is all I feel for most of my fellow man.

Jack