RIP Barbaro
Jan. 30th, 2007 07:39 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cinema_babeIt was a FUCKING HORSE! Get over it.
Yes, I know it was a race horse and I'm sure that the people who loved this animal like a pet are sad and while I understand it's a Kentucky Derby winner, it's still a horse. How the fuck does
this end up as the lead story on the news?
Did James Brown (despite being an abusive drug addict) get this much press? How many people know about the fashion model who recently died from anorexia or the resulting fallout on catwalks across Europe about model's body fat. Seemingly trivial? Maybe, but at least it's the basis for discussion of of women's body image and eating disorders.
But a damn dead horse? And a horse, BTW, that didn't have such a great prognosis to begin with given the nature of the injury
Children are being raped, murdered and disappeared, New Orleans is still a mess, Americans are dying in war zones a world away.
All we can talk about is a fucking horse dying??
I hate the news.
Yes, I know it was a race horse and I'm sure that the people who loved this animal like a pet are sad and while I understand it's a Kentucky Derby winner, it's still a horse. How the fuck does
this end up as the lead story on the news?
Did James Brown (despite being an abusive drug addict) get this much press? How many people know about the fashion model who recently died from anorexia or the resulting fallout on catwalks across Europe about model's body fat. Seemingly trivial? Maybe, but at least it's the basis for discussion of of women's body image and eating disorders.
But a damn dead horse? And a horse, BTW, that didn't have such a great prognosis to begin with given the nature of the injury
Children are being raped, murdered and disappeared, New Orleans is still a mess, Americans are dying in war zones a world away.
All we can talk about is a fucking horse dying??
I hate the news.
