Remember His Cameo in South Park?

[shanmonster]

I never thought I'd agree with someone from T-Shirt Hell. Although it's a sad thing that poor ol' Supe died, take a look at this:

I can't get over the fuss they're making over the death of Christopher Reeve. It's like he was some kind of Saint. They talk about how tirelessly he worked to get funding for research to cure paralysis. I'm sorry, but am I the only one who notices that he might have had a little something to gain if all of this hard work paid off? The man was a human doorstop. If Christopher Reeve had fallen off his horse and bounced back up unharmed, and then decided to devote his life to curing paralysis- then I would be impressed. If Christopher Reeve became paralyzed, and then devoted his life to finding a cure for world hunger, cancer, or blindness- then I would think that this guy was pretty heroic.

Believe me, if I had an accident and my penis was turned inside out so that every time I took a piss it came out my nose, you'd better believe I'd spend some time looking for the cure for inside out penisitis. I think I would discover I had a real passion for it that I was previously unaware of.

In other news, my throat is still sore and my head is full of snot. While I'm suffering, I think I'll devote my life to finding a cure for the common cold. My search begins in my medicine cabinet.

Comments

[balthcat.livejournal.com]

I whispered my shameful apathy to others, shortly after his demise. Sometimes not so whispery. In fact, something like "God-DAMN, I had enough of him when he gimped himself up, now that he's dead it's gonna flare up again!"

Maybe it's because I'm not old enough to place a huge importance in the actor who played Superman... but I have just NEVER cared. I actually didn't really like him in Superman.

[shanmonster.livejournal.com]

Not old enough? You're over four or five, aren't you? That's about the age when people generally start to develop the first glimmers of empathy.

[balthcat.livejournal.com]

Well if you'll reread carefully what I wrote, you'll see that I didn't say I had no empathy. I said I don't place a particular importance on Christopher Reeve, say, in comparison to the British guy on the CBC in a documentary, with a skin disease that keeps him in constant pain 24 hours a day.

There are a lot of people in the world who merit my empathy, an awful lot, and what I'm saying is that I don't have any reason to give Christopher Reeve all that much more of it.

[shanmonster.livejournal.com]

You don't have to give sympathy to anyone.