So, ya know those people that you've seen on your respective college campus, or on Beale Street in Memphis, that are holding the large signs about the end of the world and how we are all going to hell? you know what I'm talking about. These are people i find amusing. No seriously. I used to love to get out of class at UT and find them between the humanities building and the library, right by the street at the major intersection of campus for cars AND for students. I loved to sit there and listen to them, because it think that they are morons, but morons who totally believe in everything they are saying. and they don't care that no one is taking them seriously... they are telling me that I am going to go to hell because of.... (insert various reasons here). If nothing else, these people were a form of entertainment at least for the five minutes i had to spare before I had to race across campus and up The Hill for my next class, and I didn't think about anything school related for that period of time.
Today instead, I encountered one thing that I have absolutely no tolerance for. I walked into the courtyard at GSU (if you've ever been here you know what I'm talking about, because this is the closest thing that meets the definition of a "campus" at GSU) and there were signs that said "Warning: Genocide project ahead" or something of that nature, warning people about what they were getting ready to see. Well, since this was still in my path to the library, I continued on my intended path. And when i walked around the corner.... there were pictures of aborted fetuses, and fetus parts next to coins to show how small they are.... and they were everywhere. No don't get me wrong- everyone should be allowed to choice to make their own decisions about how they feel about abortion. I personally have no idea how I feel, because I've never been put in a situation where that has been a questions, but i do believe that my beliefs should not affect the next woman's right to have or not have an abortion. What i find offensive is that these people thought it was OK to post these pictures in a high traffic, public place. I do not want to see these images as I'm walking to class, because i can't help but see them in my side vision at the very least. And I don't understand how people believe that showing these images is going to get the kind of response that they are trying to elicit from the general public. All it does is make me angry. And the fact that these people believe that they can change the way people feel... but the one thing that did make me laugh was the girl holding up this sign in the middle of all of it :
"Don't place your beliefs in my vagina". It was awesome.
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