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Dec. 1st, 2005 08:42 amn to the power of n factoral was overflow to the value of 6!
...or so says the math nerd sitting across from me in the computer lab. Goddamn math geeks. It's great that they're good with numbers, but must they talk as LOUD AS THEY CAN so everybody can hear and 'admire' them?
At any rate, I'm sure you've all noticed that it's World AIDS Day. How many years have we been hearing about this pandemic now? Ten? Twenty? And still it gets worse, and worse, and it makes me so fucking angry because half of the reason people are still dying and getting infected -- and most of them women -- is because of the North's goddamn ethnocentric arrogance and our insistence that people adhere to our hypocritical 'moral codes'. Because according to the Holy Roman Church and the White House, all Africans have to do in order to stop AIDS is to stop having sex.
"Oh my god!" those Africans must be saying. "It's so simple! Why didn't we think of that?!?" After all, everybody who has intercourse is well-educated about sexual and reproductive health, right? And everybody who has sex WANTS to be doing it and it's totally for fun, right? Oh, and by the way, pharmaceutical companies won't mind sharing the patents for production of affordable generic AIDS medication, RIGHT? Not to mention all the HIV/AIDS-infected people in Asia and the Caribbean who aren't the subjects of politically-slanted aid packages. Those people are okay. It must not be too bad if they're not DYING BY THE MILLIONS.
I considered putting this behind a cut, but considering that it was only about five years ago that I was in a class with a woman who blithely told us all that she thought AIDS got started "when a black man fucked a monkey", I decided not to. Most of y'all are smart women and already highly aware of how fucked up this whole situation is, but just the same.
The Global Coalition on Women and AIDS
Global AIDS Program
...or so says the math nerd sitting across from me in the computer lab. Goddamn math geeks. It's great that they're good with numbers, but must they talk as LOUD AS THEY CAN so everybody can hear and 'admire' them?
At any rate, I'm sure you've all noticed that it's World AIDS Day. How many years have we been hearing about this pandemic now? Ten? Twenty? And still it gets worse, and worse, and it makes me so fucking angry because half of the reason people are still dying and getting infected -- and most of them women -- is because of the North's goddamn ethnocentric arrogance and our insistence that people adhere to our hypocritical 'moral codes'. Because according to the Holy Roman Church and the White House, all Africans have to do in order to stop AIDS is to stop having sex.
"Oh my god!" those Africans must be saying. "It's so simple! Why didn't we think of that?!?" After all, everybody who has intercourse is well-educated about sexual and reproductive health, right? And everybody who has sex WANTS to be doing it and it's totally for fun, right? Oh, and by the way, pharmaceutical companies won't mind sharing the patents for production of affordable generic AIDS medication, RIGHT? Not to mention all the HIV/AIDS-infected people in Asia and the Caribbean who aren't the subjects of politically-slanted aid packages. Those people are okay. It must not be too bad if they're not DYING BY THE MILLIONS.
I considered putting this behind a cut, but considering that it was only about five years ago that I was in a class with a woman who blithely told us all that she thought AIDS got started "when a black man fucked a monkey", I decided not to. Most of y'all are smart women and already highly aware of how fucked up this whole situation is, but just the same.
The Global Coalition on Women and AIDS
Global AIDS Program
