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[here_inmyhead]

I hate circuses. (No offense to Chasey) They make me uncomfortable and I expect horrible tragedies to happen, varying from clowns to fires to elephant beatings. Seeing Elephant's Graveyard doesn't make things better either. It's like a real-life Dumbo, only with just his mom: some idiot joins the circus, starts smacking elephant star Mary around, so naturally, she takes him by the trunk and squashes his head beneath her foot. Townspeople have an outcry, they demand the innocent thing dead. So the next day, they lynch Mary. All the while, me sitting in my chair resisting the urge to fling insults and wring the neck of Eli's annoying-as-hell sister.

It disgusts me people lock up and kill animals because some stupid idiot mishandled them and the animal couldn't help doing what he/she did. Like elephants. People take hamsters home because ZOMG they're so CUDDLY ADN CUTE!!1!!! and since the hamster's fucking frightened being taken home for the first time, she bites 'Lil Jane's fingers off. Do they ever say, ZOMG MAD HAM MAD HAM KIL TEH HORIBL3 CRU3L BEEST!!1!1!1 and squash her brains out? No. But since elephants aren't adorable little furballs though they sure as hell aren't cannibals like our petshop "friends" here, they get their hides beaten and their tusks sold for ivory. lawl the world's fair.

I wanted to talk to Dad for help on school assignments. But looks like I can't reach him right now. Fuck.

Yeah, I'm sour. Makes me want to write about an elephant trainer running away with one of her fellow elephants to save her from abuse. Except I'd rip someone's hair out if I tried to describe the cruelty without brutally murdering or torturing the oppressors in the process. Of course, murdering them would turn me into a murderer too. So if it were possible to inflict pain from the grief and disgust in your heart, I'd use it to make these people writhe in the floor in front of me until they feel just as much sorrow and guilt as I do.

George Orwell is the only author I've known who sympathized and felt horrible about a dead elephant like I do. I give him so much love for that.

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Comments

[n64-chick.livejournal.com]

Well said, Puri. Well said.

[psychicninja.livejournal.com]

Oh, I hear ya hon! Circuses can be awful. The Barney and Bailey type stuff, with the animal abuse and who knows what else? It's despicable.

But there's another kind of circus altogether too. Cirque de Soleil type stuff. Stuff that's just people with their skills, no animal trainers, no whips or chairs or anything. (Unless the -person- is handbalancing on the chair, but that's different...)

Yeah. Just... wanted to point out the important difference there. <3

[rayeli.livejournal.com]

I've been to very few circuses that appear to treat their animals all right, and most of them with no animals at all, so I haven't really associated circuses with animal cruelty because sadly, that sort of terrible crime is spread all over the place DX< God, I just wanna run over the offenders with something heavy and have their asses thrown in jail, and set an example for those other would-be criminals who'd dare do such a thing.

As psychicninja said, Cirque de Soleil is a people-only performance without the animals, whippings, or any of that sort of stuff. Thankfully, not ALL circuses necessarily carry animal performers. It's those clowns that give me nightmares >>