Friday, January 4, 2002

Infringing On Their Right To "Choice"

This is the same weirdness, spewing the same wishy-washy crap that all choices are equally valid, and that all choices have equal merit.

Only now it has grown to morbidly obese, grotesque proportions.  It is now gross, corpulent, like a sewer monster that feeds on the city's anger and malevolence. (Ghostbusters II)

The plain fact is that there is no way that a girl who was raised right and is fully aware of the options available to them, would ever choose this.  No boy would, either, for that matter.  All throughout history, the only time anyone would do this was if they were abandoned, abused, and had nowhere left to go.  It was borne out of extreme desperation and panic, the bottom of the barrel, out of shame of poverty and nothing else.

All throughout history, women who were forced to do this, did this because they were trapped.  And now, what?  Is this supposed to be an homage to them or something??

Perhaps these young ladies need a history lesson.  All throughout human history, women have been demeaned, degraded, reduced to their mere body parts, denigrated to being far less than the sum of their parts.  This has been done through prostttt, through selling wo as chattel, through sessss slaves, through selling children -- both boys and girls -- as __.

And now this is being hailed as the next wave of empowerment??  Seriously, what the hell is wrong with people?

This is caused by extreme ignorance.  This reveals an extreme lack of knowledge of history.  And believe it or not, it is also an extreme lack of knowledge of current goings-on in the world today.  These young ladies evidently need a current-events/social-studies lesson as well.  
Unfortunately slavery still exists in many permutations.

The plain fact is that emotionally healthy and stable people do not do this.  Let us consider an analogy.  Would anyone declare that a group of grown people who have severe Down’s syndrome should simply be set free, turned out, and be allowed to do whatever they want?  Left to fend for themselves out there in the cold cruel world.
"No."
Well, why not?  They are adults, after all.
"But they are not mentally healthy."
What makes you think so?  They are of legal age as adults, they have the right to make their own decisions.
"But they are not mentally aware... they do not have true sentience.  And it would be socially immoral and irresponsible of us to leave them to their own faculties when they are clearly not capable of taking care of themselves as consciously complete adults."
What makes you think so?  They are capable of making their own decisions.  They can choose what to have for dinner -- ice cream.  They can choose what they want to do with their lives -- be a clown and make balloon animals.  A lot of them might be capable of living alone and taking care of themselves.
"That’s ridiculous. Nobody who is fully mentally functional and capable would choose those options."

Exactly.

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