Ok, so you're all about to become privy to one of my inFamous rants because I'm tagging everyone I know. As the title of this note/rant indicates...It's Poverty Awareness Week at the University of Central Oklahoma!!! What does this mean you ask? It means that we have an abundance of over-privileged hipsters, fraternity boys, and sorority girls sleeping outside in homemade shanty houses they constructed out of ply wood, wooden shipping pallets, and tarps.
Why does this bother/annoy you so much? I'm glad you asked.
These Frat Boys and Sorority Girls build these makeshift shanty's and sleep outside for a whole week. Knowing full well that at the end of that week they get to go back to their cushiony Fraternity and Sorority houses and sleep in their nice plush beds. On top of that, looking inside of their shanty's, it's not hard to notice the $40-100 air-up mattresses that they've got on the inside, or the couches that they've hauled out there to put infront of their shanty's so that they have a comfy place to sit. GOD forbid they ACTUALLY have to experience how uncomfortable poverty really is!!! Oh, and what about the guys outside kicking around a $30 soccer ball, or the one's playing their $100+ acoustic guitars or their $100+ electric guitars that are plugged into their $300+ amps. Or the other hipsters sitting outside with an iPhone 4 ($200+) attached to a portable alarm clock complete with iPhone/iPod dock blaring their country music while playing Angry Birds on their iPad 2's. Oh, and let's not forget to mention their American Eagle ensemble outfit worth a total retail value of $Way-too-fucking-much-to-pay-for-clothes!
It annoys me that they have no better way to promote the awareness of poverty than by having these over-privileged douchebags and douchebagettes out there pissing all over the actual hardships that people who experience REAL poverty go through.
