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"Serious on April Fool's Day"
04/01/2003 Entry
I was wondering how much April Fool's Day foolishness would be going around the blog world today, but I don't quite have the energy to do much investigation. Unlike last year, Google doesn't seem to have an April Fool's Day theme going. The few other sites I checked didn't either. Perhaps it's due to the times. Or perhaps it's another backlash against anything and everything French.
In any case, for those looking for serious things to pursue, check out the Feminist To-Do List from fellow Smith alum Gloria Steinem. Did you know that more women will die of lung cancer this year than all other cancers combined? I didn't know that. Granted, how many people die of a particular type of cancer does not equal the number of people who are diagnosed with it. But that is probably not unrelated to the following point. Lung cancer is very much related to smoking and smoking is by no means equally distributed across different segments of the population. The segments that are hardest hit by it have much fewer resources to publicize the problem, rally support for finding a cure and educate people about it.
Reminds me of this question: If you didn't know what race, class, gender, ethnicity, ability, sexuality you were going to be born, but got to choose in what country you would be born, in what country would you want to be born?
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