Letter meme

This is how it works: Comment on this entry and I will give you a letter. Write ten words beginning with that letter, including an explanation of what the word means to you and why.

that_redhead gave me the letter G.

1) Google - My portal to the parallel world on the internet.

2) Guggenheim - The first museum I visited in New-York, I don't think I'll ever forget it.

3) Gender - Something that is meant to be broken.

4) "Gang" - What I call my fairly large group of friends back home.

5) God - Could exist, maybe not. The existence of God in my life as an outside influence is quite irrelevant, since I find that using God as an excuse for my own short comings and for the worlds disasters is selling my self short and shrugging off the responsibility humans have taken upon Earth.

6) Giles, Rupert - The reason I want to be a Librarian :)

7) Gaimen, Neil - My gateway to comic books and the idol of many a geek girl out there.

8) Gefilteh fish - Yeah, we all know what this is. And those who don't, it's traditional Ashkenasi Jewish dish that no one I know likes, but yet is still forced down our throats on Rosh Ha'Shanah and Pesach!

9) Graphic Novels - A fancy name for comic books.

10) Gay - To me it means happy! ;)

Hypocrisy

I'm a hypocrite.
Being at the Natural History Museum made it clear to me.
I'm a hypocrite.
How can I claim to be an Environmentalist when I'm a meat eater.
Okay, so humans are omnivorous and historically we used to hunt our game and grow it.
But you know what, I'm a grrl who has lived her entire life in the western world and has consumed (with great privilege and pleasure) all the west had to offer her.
I eat beef, I like hamburgers (real kind, I've not stepped into a Burger King in three years and a McDonald's in five years), I like kebab, shawarma, pargiyot, shrimp, salmon, lobster and tuna.
Yet I make sure all my face cleaning soaps, moisturizers and such are not tested on animals.
I'm a hypocrite.

I've often considered becoming a vegetarian, but it never seemed worth it because I love meat.
But in the past year my ideology (of which I had none during high school and most of my army service) is quickly solidifying, and in the past I used to think ideological vegetarians were cheating themselves.
I'm becoming aware that I'm actually cheating myself.
How can I be an advocate of animal rights, when I use them in such a disgusting way?
God the hypocrisy!

"Feed me!"

I enjoy food too much to give up meat.

So I shall remain the hypocritical meat eater... perhaps just eat the kosher meat, at least then I know the animal was slaughtered as quickly and as painlessly as possible... at least that's what kosher slaughtering is supposed to be like.