A little bit later I went back to see if anything had improved - wrong it was far, far worse. As Whitney's boyfriend was talking to his friend that he and Whitney had broken up, the friend was scornful he would even care- "What, you like having the same VAGINA every night?" As I quickly turned off the set, I was so disgusted. This is what we've come to in America, women are just interchangeable vaginas????Well, "yes" in the sense that there are some guys who just want sex. "No" in the sense that the reason they don't mind being out of a committed relationship is that they can easily get sex from a variety of women, all whose bodies are different. If your "vaginas" (really, the whole body, the attitude, the sex) were really interchangeable, then the guys would stay put because there would be no reason to try other women. These days, vaginas are cheap, not interchangeable, due the law of supply and demand. They have always been in high demand. But beginning with the culture of mobility and urbanity, growing with contraception, functional atheism (in which people behave as though there is no God) and then "liberation" of women, easy access to many vaginas is widespread... so to speak.
Now, as I've previously written, it is more enjoyable to make love than to have casual sex, all other things about the sex being equal. But the guys in these scenarios do not want everything that comes along with being in that kind of relationship, which is harder to find anyway because much of the female population has changed in attitude.
It makes me sick to think of the children watching garbage like this.
I am a parent myself, and yes, it is hard to protect them from a lot of the bad influences, but discernment and filtering are very important. So is innoculation, which works much better than isolation or indoctrination.I agree that parents should not be letting their children watch something like that. However, are you proposing that everything in society be designed and operated so as to be child-focused? Children should be a top priority to their parents, and society as a whole should value children, but not every aspect of life should be appropriate or appealing to little kids.
Ever since Hitlery Clinton made that stupid statement about how it takes a village to raise a child, the overwhelming attitude of people seems to be that everyone must assume responsibility to see to children's welfare. While I understand how children should be protected, if it isn't mine, it isn't my responsibility.
ReplyDeleteBesides, who says shielding kids from everything that has a sharp edge is doing them any favors? For a generation, people obsessed over The children...The children...The children...and what have we gotten for all this molly-coddling? A generation of weak, indolent, and entitled victims of a cruel world.
People need to get it through their heads: kids need to rack up a couple of wounds, get dirty, and generally make their own screw-ups. That old statement of "It'll build character" sounds trite, but it is nonetheless true.