well, it is if you read the papers...(like I did today on my lunch break)
if it's not some teen death or other, or third world trauma, or terrorism...
it's the stories like these:
- British maternity rights are harking back to traditionalist expectations that the mother stays at home to look after the children while Daddy goes out to work. New regulations are coming into play here to allow up to a year of paid maternity leave. Now, on the one hand yay, really, that's a good thing. Not every new mum is ready to go back to work a few months after giving birth and breastfeeding and sleepless nights etc etc etc. BUT the issue comes in paternal leave... it's near non-existant over here... so while womens rights are progressing, we're not really doing much with the whole EQUALITY thing here are we?!
couple that with some companies who wont consider employing women of child bearing age... it's no bloody wonder back 100-150 yrs ago women didnt go to work, you'd start dropping kiddies from an early age, and if childbirth didnt kill you off a broken heart may well do... there was no time for woment o consider any other life... and if this carries on it wont be long til we're back there people!

(hm, not sure I quite made sense there oh well)

there's also the reports of a significant (my word for it) number of surgical mistakes... the ones making the headlines are 14 brain surgery patients who had surgery on the wrong side of the brain... but there are other mistakes... from operations on the wrong side of the body (eg, wrong hip relaced) to wrong surgery full stop, or even the wrong person!! and I mean... HOW?! HOW ON EARTH do these mistakes happen?
I dont care if it is 'only' 1 in however many proceedures... that's 1 in however many too many... like they said in the article, "these should be 'never events'" (oh, the quote's near enough, apologies if I didnt get it quite right)

and just now I watched yet another documentary showing up how the fashion mags are promoting unrealistic images of perfection... and how even 8 yr old girls will think themselves ugly, or fat, or that a size 14 is huge..! And that more and more teenagers are opting for plastic surgery to attain that picture perfect body!

although, I dont think surgery would be such a great idea (well, I dont anyways, except for reconstructive reasons) what with the messup's happening... you go in for a boob job and you'll wake up with a new face instead!

ugh, what are we turning into? whatever it is, it isnt great by any means...