I’d heard rumblings about this all day and thought: no, no one’s actually that stupid and clueless, I suppose I should know better than to bet against the deep seated idiocy that drives the SWPL crowd…
The sad part is that I live in a big city with just these sorts of loathsome people and still I can’t quite wrap my mind around the almost operatic levels of silliness and social status seeking on display here.
Segnala presso:
Pierre and T’oussount shuffled along the trash-strewn street, their heads low, their gaits revealing something of their downcast hearts as they picked their way through Port Au Prince’s fringe neighborhoods.
T’oussount stopped as if jerked by an invisible leash. Pierre took another couple of steps before realizing that his friend was now behind him. When Pierre turned and looked, he saw T’oussount pointing, wide-eyed, at something ahead. He spun to see what had captured his friend’s attention.
And there it was, rising from the dingy concrete like a mirage. A sign, letter in crude, shaky writing on a piece of stained cardboard.
“Yoga Mats from the USA.”
The two men stared for a long moment, immobile and breathing through their mouths. Then T’oussount aimed his great, gleaming smile at Pierre.
“Do you see it?”
“Yes, I see it.”
They spoke together, their voices lifted like children at a birthday party.
“Portable rape mats!”
[copyright 2010 by Wheeler MacPherson]
Gonna play devil’s advocate here… Perhaps the mats could be used for other purposes. A surface to sleep on, for example. While I am not exactly going out of my way to help out with Haiti, I see no harm in this. No confiscated money is being used for this effort.
I don’t know FG, do they get SWPL type folk in Alaska? Because I guarantee that the people actually doing this think that Haitians are just dying to do some yoga. They might as well send golf clubs.
I gotta go with Wheeler’s much more cynical take on this.
LOL, you must live in San Francisco, or Berkely, or Austin……….
Let’s call it the San Fran of the Midwest!
No, actually, I reside in Birmingham Alabama.
Which I’m guessing is not overrun with SWPL types, or is it?
It has its share of Priuseseses and Lexae with Obama stickers, but no more than anywhere else. And those are seen mostly near gated communities or where the houses are $500K on up.
The difference is that in Gold Coast you could drop that for a smallish condo, and believe me the more they pay per square foot the more annoying they get.