Saturday, January 29, 2011
Thursday, January 13, 2011
"Confessions of a call girl" ... not really
*Not the call girl but I found this great blogger and wanted to share the post!!!
'Confessions of a callgirl', but more sexy
This week in crazy follow-up: The Arizona Hero
I forgot to mention, when I was talking about the people who are respites to all the crazy this week, namely in Arizona, the “awesomest intern ever”, Daniel Hernandez.
Join this group on Facebook so Daniel Hernandez knows how much he is appreciated: http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Daniel-Hernandez-Is-The-Awesomest-Intern-Ever/191877124155970
Hernandez had been Gifford’s intern since the start of the legislative week. He was 30 yards away when the shooting began. He saw people being killed and he ran into the firing. He had just seen his boss shot in the head. The instinct most people would have is to believe that said person was dead, and that even if they were alive, they should run to safety. But his instinct, of checking to see the medical conditions of the dead and dying, helped save Gabrielle Gifford’s life, from important steps such as holding her head in his lap to prevent choking on blood, to the more simple steps of holding her hand all the way to the hospital. First off, he is a testament to why we need to treat interns better, and certainly stop them from being unpaid.
The other amazing part of this story is that Hernandez is Latino, and, gay. Mary Williams has talked about it at Salon.com, but it matters because it is another element that is crucial in smashing group stereotypes surrounding the issue of violence, where the instinct was to blame it on either a Mexican drug cartel or a Muslim, and where gay people’s ability to serve is so often questioned, re: the Don’t Ask Don’t Tell repeal held up by Arizona senator John McCain. As for the Latino thing, we don’t need to go into how many racist hissy fits Arizona has been having.
To know why those above details are important, you have to ask yourself, what do you see when you think of an American person. Do you see a fat, white person? When you think of a Latino person, do you see a cleaner, or a sassy backup character in a movie, or a baseball player? When you think of a gay person, do you see someone in designer clothes? Or in all three incidences, do you see a gay, Latino intern who runs into bullets to save his boss?
Daniel Hernandez is not just a testament to gay people, Latino people and even interns, but a testament to how America is always just that bit more complex than you think it is.
'Confessions of a callgirl', but more sexy
This week in crazy follow-up: The Arizona Hero
I forgot to mention, when I was talking about the people who are respites to all the crazy this week, namely in Arizona, the “awesomest intern ever”, Daniel Hernandez.
Join this group on Facebook so Daniel Hernandez knows how much he is appreciated: http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Daniel-Hernandez-Is-The-Awesomest-Intern-Ever/191877124155970
Hernandez had been Gifford’s intern since the start of the legislative week. He was 30 yards away when the shooting began. He saw people being killed and he ran into the firing. He had just seen his boss shot in the head. The instinct most people would have is to believe that said person was dead, and that even if they were alive, they should run to safety. But his instinct, of checking to see the medical conditions of the dead and dying, helped save Gabrielle Gifford’s life, from important steps such as holding her head in his lap to prevent choking on blood, to the more simple steps of holding her hand all the way to the hospital. First off, he is a testament to why we need to treat interns better, and certainly stop them from being unpaid.
The other amazing part of this story is that Hernandez is Latino, and, gay. Mary Williams has talked about it at Salon.com, but it matters because it is another element that is crucial in smashing group stereotypes surrounding the issue of violence, where the instinct was to blame it on either a Mexican drug cartel or a Muslim, and where gay people’s ability to serve is so often questioned, re: the Don’t Ask Don’t Tell repeal held up by Arizona senator John McCain. As for the Latino thing, we don’t need to go into how many racist hissy fits Arizona has been having.
To know why those above details are important, you have to ask yourself, what do you see when you think of an American person. Do you see a fat, white person? When you think of a Latino person, do you see a cleaner, or a sassy backup character in a movie, or a baseball player? When you think of a gay person, do you see someone in designer clothes? Or in all three incidences, do you see a gay, Latino intern who runs into bullets to save his boss?
Daniel Hernandez is not just a testament to gay people, Latino people and even interns, but a testament to how America is always just that bit more complex than you think it is.
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