"It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies."
- C.S. Lewis
So, rant time. Feel free to tab out though I would greatly appreciate it if you stayed and read what I have to say. Type. Whatever. Though this kinda gets derailed into me angrily shouting at my computer, I really needed to get this off my chest.
In short I hate Moral Guardians. Let me explain: A 'Moral Guardian' is someone who strongly (read: stubbornly) believes that children (and everyone else, but manly children) shouldn't be "exposed to unmoral content." Which is pretty much anything they don't like. Violence, sex, foul language, a negative deception of someone in a ethnic minority, laziness... The list goes on and on.
Now, don't get me wrong, I see where their coming from to a point. Younger children in the developmental stage shouldn't watch Saw for example. But, and I think I speak for most of us here, I'm not in the developmental stage. Most likely, your not either. We can see Saw if we want to. There's nothing wrong with that, yet movies that are less violent than Saw have been outright banned in some countries.
And it's not just movies or video games that people get angry at. I'm sorry to bring out the links so early, but feast your eyes on this. For those of you two lazy to click the link, it's basically saying how some parents got angry at a high school sex ed text book for mentioning masturbation and bondage. Now, I've looked at the article (obviously or else how would I link to it?) And 1) It's acknowledging that these things exist. It's not explaining how to hogtie someone. 2) This is nothing any teenager doesn't know about. Trust us, we've known what masturbation and bondage was for years. 3) TEENAGERS MASTURBATE, and so do parents. It's an open secret, something you don't bring up in casual conversation. This textbook is a farce, but it's a step in the right direction. Better to be honest and frank about how sex works than to lie or say nothing. My sex ed was on how to use a condom, and not much else. It's lack of information that leads to teens and younger experimenting.
You don't like it when people curse. That's fine. Perfectly reasonable. You try to ban books and/or movies because a character says 'shit' or 'fuck' and now we have a problem. People swear. That's life, it's what people do. That and hate, apparently. Your kids are going to hear the worst of it before 10th grade, I can assure you that. Now, you swear. I swear. What are you going to do about it? Keep on trying to ban books? China bans books. Hitler banned books. Your just a concerned, confused parent who thinks they know how the world works. You don't. Of course, you could be a hate-monger who gets a kick out of putting me in a foul mood.
Let's talk about suicide. Not a very pleasant topic, to be sure, but while were talking about hate-mongers have you heard that some Christians believe suicide to be a sin? Because of course if someone killed themselves, it's not because of outside issues or mental illness, but because there a sinner. I hate, Hate, HATE people who say what god wants and then do something unforgivable. Off the topic of suicide, you know Robin Williams, right? Of course you do, everyone does. The Westboro Baptist Church A.K.A. the "God Hates Fags" Church (There words, not mine) plan to picket his funeral. Why? He played a gay guy once. It wouldn't be so bad if they didn't, you know, always do this.
God wants this, god wants that, blacks are farm equipment, whites are Satan, democrats are going to hell, Hindus are going to hell, republicans are going to hell, atheists, gays, feminists, transgenders, humanists, musicians, writers, actors, were all going to Hell!
Good. If god is anything like what those spiteful fucks at Westboro Baptist Church say he is, then I would gladly go to hell then put up with their god.
Luckily, I honestly don't believe god is like that. What god would hate love and diversity so much, yet give us almost nothing but love and diversity. All that hate, violence, and what have you, that's free will. That's human nature.
Doesn't mean I like it.
I do apologize for swearing earlier, these people bring out the worst in me.
Sorry for taking up your time. I need a calming burrito.
