Ive been really busy over the last few months with my degree, I probably could have kept blogging and maybe I should but whenever I thought about writing my blog it felt like I was cheating on my degree, is that insane? Probably. Anyway I’ve got lots to talk about and won’t try to do it all in one post, if you were Reading about my experiences of my son being born I’ll get on it as soon as I can.

Anyway to start with a few weeks back I read a story about 2 lesbian girls being supported by their school to attend their prom as a couple. When i read this i thought to myself “why is this news?” A school is accepting and supportive of it’s students as it should be big deal. I’m not sure what this says about me as a person if anything at all to be honest. Then I started thinking, it is a big deal to them and it’s a big deal to society to. Acceptance isn’t a given, it should be but unfortunately a lot of intolerance exists. My expectation that a story about 2 lesbian girls at school would end badly shows how jaded I have become to news of this nature. My initial reaction was that it wasn’t news worthy because it was good news and not bad news.

A story a week or so later was more what I have come to expect from the media. It was supporting a young girl who had refused to cover her head on a school trip to a mosque. Her school (a catholic school at that) berated her for such a display of disrespect. The newspaper however flipped this story on it’s head to make the school look bad for forcing her to do something against her will. The punchline of course being that it was all faked and that no such event took place. The young girl and her mother banked on the fact that the newspaper love stories of intolerance and would lap this up.

Message basically reads that he world can be a nasty intolerant prejudiced hell hole and because I expect this the good news stories don’t feel like news. We need to ensure more good news gets through to break up some of the grim reality