Man, I am a cynic today...

Our hotel has picked "Loaves and Fishes" as our charity of the year. Loaves and Fishes is a non-profit which serves dinners to those in need 365 days year (average of 1,350 dinners per night). Attached to our paycheck this week was a flyer advocating the benefits of the organization and providing employees the opportunity to donate money directly (we also serve the meals twice a year). There were a number of interesting facts about Loaves and Fishes listed such as they have 3,500 volunteers and year serving over 320,000 meals free of charge. And then, the one fact that floored me: "Almost 50% of the guests are female."

I just can't understand why this is a fact they focus on...what exactly is the point? Are they hoping that this will cause people to feel more compassion because women are in need and donate more? Is there a general public belief that those in need are mostly men and this is to combat this? Is there a general public belief that women don't search out charity like this and this is to combat this?

For some reason, the comment isn't sitting well with me. It is obviously trying to imply something as it is specifically listed as a fact/benefit, yet obviously women are half our population, thus wouldn't we expect this to be the case? It isn't important, but still...I don't know...

Also, one note on Kirby Puckett. I have been listening all day long to a ton of people talk about Kirby like he was the best thing since sliced bread. A ton of these people, though, were intensely critical of Kirby not four years ago or so when the whole rape scandal took place. It just seems entirely hypocritical for some of these reporters who were savaging him four years ago and NEVER including all of his charity work or autograph signings and impact on people in those stories now act like he was the best thing ever...Kirby was a tremendous baseball player (not a HOF'er, in my opinion, though), and he had a great public personna, but he has/had some serious character flaws. All in all he is a great Minnesota icon, but he was four years ago too. Journalists can be so presumptous sometimes and it just irks me...