It’s actually very absurd that life is just meant to continue while wars rage on and humans are trafficked, kidnapped, hacked to pieces and bombed. The worse things get, the higher my anxiety gets and the more stressed I become in my daily life. I understand why so many of us on this earth turn to an assortment of coping mechanisms and self-soothing techniques.
I personally am so very close to unplugging completely and retreating to the life my sisters and I knew before we got our first dial -up connection. A few things in particular that have stood out to me over the last couple of weeks have left me quite flummoxed, and to be honest, I actually can’t remember a time when it didn’t feel like the world was burning. The Olympics and its sex issue Let’s start with the recently concluded Summer Olympic Games in Paris.
Questions surrounding a boxer named Imane Khelif nearly overshadowed the major sporting event. Half of the internet is certain she is a biological male who should not be allowed to fight in the female division, while the other half thinks this is entirely untrue and/or irrelevant. What I think is that how everyone has behaved over this topic has been quite disgusting.
It is rather shameful that everybody thinks it is completely reasonable to demand to see someone’s medical information or to know exactly what sits between their legs and in their DNA. If the sporting boards allowed her to compete and even awarded her gold, one must assume they have their re.