Farasha's blog

There are very few things in this world that I have consistently claimed to be terrible at - not because I'm fishing for compliments, not out of any sense of modesty, but because I feel I am honestly terrible at them. One of these things is sports. My parents tried to get me into sports for the longest time, but the only thing I showed any aptitude for was martial arts (which I went on to get a black belt in). I don't like playing team sports; I haven't got the best hand-eye coordination, I can't run fast, I can barely catch something. Put all that together and I'm a disaster on a sports team.

The only other thing in my life that I have said I was terrible at for years is something that you will hear most people claim to be absolutely terrible at as well - Math.  Read More »

One of the things I simultaneously hate the most and love the best about the gay community (or the homosexual community or the LGBTQ community or whatever the hell is PC these days) is their eternal obsession with getting people to be proud of who they are. This may seem like an awesome thing at first, because who doesn't want their friends to be able to be happy and proud of who they are? I've seen too many people who were run down and depressed because they couldn't reconcile who they knew they were with who society told them it was okay to be.

But on the other hand, there are people like me, who preach the doctrine but then feel like a hypocrite when it's time to apply it to my own personal life. I don't like the gay community's eternal obsession with coming out because I'm still not out to the most important people in my life - my family.  Read More »

I am sick and tired of people getting up in arms about silly little things that are so far into the realm of personal choice that other people shouldn't even know about it. A lot of the "hot button issues" these days are nothing more than people sticking their nose in where it doesn't belong. You can consider this a delayed comment on Proposition 8 if you wish, but it's more like something that's been a long time coming.

I'm founding a new political party. I'm founding the Nunya Party.

The Nunya Party is a party based on one very simple ideal - an ideal so simple, that it's also the basis for the party's name. The party's ideal is "None Of Your Business."  Read More »

I hear a lot of people decrying feminism as a ball-busting, man-hating, female-superiority philosophy. I personally prefer to identify as humanist, since feminist does seem rather exclusive to me - the word makes it sound like only females can identify as feminists, when we all know that isn't true. And I can see why people might have gained that opinion about feminists, given how some of our sisters tend to act about guys in general.

Case in point - I was walking around campus with a girlfriend of mine, heading to the cafeteria for dinner. As we approached, we saw a couple also approaching the doors ahead of us. The guy reached out in front of the girl, grabbed the door, and held it open for her. The girl promptly turned and said, "Don't open doors for me! I can open doors myself!" in quite a harsh tone of voice. I can predict how my readers will react - one of two ways, based on how my friend and I reacted.  Read More »

Very rarely does a bill in Congress necessitate my protests. I generally pay attention to what is happening in politics, but most of the bills do not concern me.

This bill concerns me.  Read More »

A little less than two years ago now, I made a post in anguish. I was in anguish at the state of our country. I was in anguish, then, because I despaired. I made that post as a desperate, helpless plea - a plea from a sixteen-year-old girl begging for a hero.  Read More »

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I've been given my required reading for the entering Freshman class at Adelphi University already, and I've already made quite a dent in it. The book is called The Impossible Will Take a Little While: A citizen's guide to hope in a time of fear by Paul Loeb, and is all about the collective consciousness, social responsibility and the interdependance of humanity.

Although I think Loeb and some of the authors he has collected (names like Angelou, Mandela, Dr. King, Neruda) make good points about the shape and motivation of social change, some of the things he and his authors say make me a little leery, one particular point being that because of humanity's interconnectedness, we first have a responsibility to our neighbor, and then to ourself. He talks about the evils of isolation and selfishness, which makes me a little skeptical.  Read More »