Recently, we at Lib Porn asked our readers to stop being People Who Care. People Who Care usually aren’t folks who sacrifice or work for the causes they supposedly take to heart. Realistically, most People Who Care only “care” about cancer/African poverty/genocide/global warming/whatever else to get attention. People Who Care are self-centered assholes or, sometimes, just very stupid. These traits are embodied very well in an awareness group that I never knew existed: To Write Love On Her Arms.
To Write Love On Her Arms (which I will refer to as the Retarded People Group, or RPG) is one of those pointless awareness groups that urge everybody to get up and do something about some vague problem. RPG, for instance, wants everyone to write the word ‘love’ on their arms in support of people suffering from depression, addiction, self-injury, and suicide, although I’m don’t think anyone suffering from suicide is going to be around to see RPG. The point (if you can call it one) of RPG is to raise awareness about, um…well shit, I’m not sure. I guess they want the world to be aware of depressed alcoholics who self-injure themselves with suicide. So on RPG, when you’re walking around with ‘love’ scrawled on your forearms, you can tell anyone who asks that you’ve nobly sacrificed clean forearm skin in support of deceased alcoholics who were very, very sad.
I visited the RPG website and wasn’t sure if the RPG “movement” began with this cruddy page or the cruddier MySpace group, but the origin of this pointless idiocy doesn’t really matter. The website has a list of helplines that can help out victims of various, vaguely defined ailments. Hey, that’s awesome and all, but I’m still not sure what writing ‘love’ on one’s arms accomplishes. Actually, the RPG website thinks it’s great if you scribble on your arm, but it’s even greater (and probably raises more awareness) if you buy one of their twenty dollar t-shirts or hoodies, or make a donation that goes straight to the RPG website. I’m not sure what the RPG people do with this donation, but they claim that they want to “communicate hope to others who know the daily struggle of living in a broken world.” So if you’re feeling extra Caring today, donate twenty bucks so the RPG people can tell victims of depression or addiction that RPG people Care and can totally prove it if you would just look at their forearms.
Don’t get us wrong. We at Lib Porn think that depression, addiction, and suicide suck. We also think that there are lots of attention-starved numbskulls who like to drape themselves in certain causes not because they care, but because they Care. People Who Care are generally the last people who will genuinely help out. Instead of dropping a few bucks to a reputable charity, they scrawl love on their arm and puff their chests out in an attempt to raise awareness about a bunch of problems that we, the normal people of society, already know about.
Depression, addiction, suicide, and all the other shitty things that people go through already have outlets for help. If you’re depressed, you can get on Prozac or see a therapist. If you’re an addict, you can go to a methadone or detox clinic. If you’re suicidal, well, I hope you don’t off yourself before you see a doctor. Lib Porn isn’t trivializing these problems; they are legitimate problems, albeit problems with solutions.
Unfortunately, there are lots of problems that don’t have solutions, but desperately need one. As sad as it is when a depressed teenager gobbles down a shotgun shell, at the moment there are millions of poor kids getting shot up in urban ghettos. Now, I assume that anyone who is a vehement supporter of RPG and their “movement” has already written various catchphrases on their arms to fight urban poverty. We understand that middle-class white college kids like to pretend that a bout of depression or an addiction is on par with the more horrifying problems of the world, but they are not. So, dear friends, if you really want to give someone a hand, check out this charity below, which will benefit poor kids in our home city of Philadelphia.
Cradles to Crayons provides poor kids with clothes, school supplies, food, and various other things that middle-class college kids have plenty of. So stop Caring like an idiot, forget fashionable awareness jerkoffs like To Write Love On Her Arms, and help a poor kid survive the winter.
Visit Cradles to Crayons here
Also, support Liberating Porn’s National “I Don’t Care” Day. Lib Porn’s “I Don’t Care” Day can happen whenever the hell you feel like helping out a legit charity without acting like a smug idiot. Donate your time or cash quietly, but pretend that you totally don’t give a shit about anyone but yourself. Because really, if you’re helping out the less fortunate, does it matter if people think you care or not?
Feel free to recommend various charities to us and we’ll post them. However, if anyone tries to recommend a dumbass “awareness” group that does jack shit to solve problems, we’ll shoot your legs off.
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