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Hello kids, first off my birthday was nice and low key thank you all for the nice greetings.  Spent the day basically with my favorite people my tennis team.  Had camp in the morning, and our banquet at night. 

Alright so recently this little town I live in went big time, as we made some news not just locally but the Huffington Post picked up this story as well as other national outlets.  Before I go further i'd like to say that I do like living here, it's a nice town, safe town, but the people that live her i'd say 90% of them are stuck in the stone ages with their beliefs, and religious views.   So, about 2 weeks ago the local high school had their graduation, I want to state right away I didn't attend, but it had some controversy.  The speaker who is a high school social studies teacher there gave well in my opinion a sexist speech.  He got up and basically addressed the young women by saying that their greatest role in love would be, being a mother and wife.  You know had he stopped right there while to me that is still a sexist thing to say it might not been as bad but here is where it snowballed, he went on to say that we have "enough" women CEO's out there and it's time these girls buck the trend.  Umm WHAT!?   I am not even a woman and that offends me last time I checked it's 2013. 

Anyway, somehow this speech got leaked to a local Indianapolis TV station, and from there it really took off.  Of course the teacher in question, who I want to point out is a friend of mine, we don't have the same beliefs what so ever and I like the guy but I can't side with him on this one.  Anyway he said that the speech was taken out of context.  Like I said I wasn't there, but my assistant coach was and I asked HER a female what she thought and her exact words she was offended.  She felt like this speech was calling her a failure because she is both unmarried and single.  I think what scares me is this entire community has rallied around him and has lashed out at ANYONE who is critical of him or the speech.  I get it, it's great to have that community spirit but these mother's defending this speech their daughters heard I can't believe they don't realize how inappropriate it was.  I should say I said earlier the speaker is not only a teacher but has a radio show where his topics range from politics, to religion, to gay rights, and he is definitely pro religion anti anything gay, and has made some crazy comments before.  After one of the shootings that made the media recently he made a similar comment about this not happening as much if women went back to their roles of being at home.  

So I ask you, especially you females are you or would you be offended by this speech?  Maybe it's just me, I know that most people outside of this area were not fans of it, infact the valedictorian of another school in the county wrote an editoral for the paper about this speech and she was definitely not in favor of women being told to be a wife and mom :)

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It's my BIRTHDAY!!!!!

Well in 20 mins(I am writing this at 11:40 on June 4th) I will turn another year older.  Yep, it's my birthday and all you fun loving bloggers better stop by and comment happy birthday because that's all I want :)  My big plans for celebrating making it thru another year of life.  I am doing tennis camp from 9-12:30 then I head into town to get my blood work done, and my shot, then stopping by the city building to fill out paperwork for my summer job, and then the spring sports banquet to celebrate my tennis teams accomplishment.  Can you say PARTY ANIMAL! Not exactly my first choice of birthday options, but it will do. 

Hope everyone has a great day, I know I will I have my "It's My Birthday" button on so the whole world will know

Cancer Sucks

So it's been a rough week here, a long time family friend and someone I have known since elementary passed away recently, and I went to her viewing Friday.  Her name was Kristy she was diagnosed with stomach cancer, and family, friends we all knew the outcome because when diagnosed she was told the tumor was too big to operate and it was terminal.  They got a glimmer of hope at one time when a doctor suggest shrinking it and trying to operate but that didn't work.  Well earlier this week she passed away.  I attended the viewing with my mother and I have to say every viewing is tough but this one was especially hard.  I think part of it was she is my age, and up until now death hasn't really found any of my friends and now this has happened it hits home a little more.  She leaves behind not only a husband, but 2 beautiful and VERY young children who were both present at the viewing.  As the title says Cancer Sucks

The thing about this is as I sat in a church in the pew waiting to go thru the visitation(is that the right term) line I got to thinking.  I want to start by saying I am not religious, I don't go to church infact I don't believe in organized religion I think it's one of the biggest hypocrisys out there.  However, that beind said I have always believed in God, sometimes it's wavered but I have always believed.  Got to say sitting there watching these pictures of two beautiful kids play with their mother who was now dead got me wavering again.  I don't know understand how a God you religious people say is so great and amazing can also be so cruel.  I really didn't mean to go in this direction for this post and I am not trying to offend anyone so I will stop here.  I am just really frustrated I will simply leave you with

RIP Kristy.