Our Mournful Lady of the Soggy Biscuit is lachrymose.
We teach children to have no higher expectations than possible pregnancy at age eleven. So they grow up believing that no one can be trusted (not the least themselves) in the realm of sex; it’s always about managing the evils of jealousy and monotony, while hoping for finding something that looks like it could be love and happiness in a culture that has stripped fundamental words of meaning. “Freedom” is in having no standards by which to make choices, and having anyone who wants to propose something better marginalized.
What?
She's waxing weepy about a BBC article to do with four certain persons who are "polyamorous," which is a thing that exists, one imagines, though to be honest, you read that article, and you think of the Mitchell & Webb sketch about avocado bathrooms.
But it's the "We teach children to have no higher expectations than possible pregnancy at age eleven" which is weird; the hell is she on about?
Oh -- it's about how "we" shouldn't give eleven year old girls the morning after pill because forcing them to bear a child would teach them about "higher expectations."
I guess if your whole shtick is Pretend Internet Nun this makes sense, because someone has to get paid for being an ineffectual scold don't they.
Getting back to the "polyamorous" folks in the BBC piece, you know, whatever? I am as it happens not remotely interested in their private lives.
But, like, at least they have private lives -- you're a grownup, you have grownup relationships, and these are what they are.
Shit....
Here's what I mean. I'm a married heterosexual monogamous dad. This qualifies me to judge nobody but myself.*
But K-Lo is judgmental as fuck about other people's life choices, and her basis for her sodden displeasure is what the Pope said.
I mean this kills:
Love and marriage and the baby carriage might be boring in comparison, but it’s not doomed if the Google server crashes. It’s also not all about adults, but is open to higher expections and a commitment to rise to responsibilities and challenges together, toward good and actually away from evil.
I've done this hard work -- K-Lo, uh, has not -- and what has it mostly taught me?
To shut the fuck up about "good and evil" as regards other people's choices and freedom, because I'm not qualified.
Come to think of it, it's frankly offensive, and repulsive, for someone who has not experienced heterosexual monogamous marriage, with kids, to speak with Our Voice.
If it's so frickin' awesome, well, try it yourself.
(Some Catholics back in the day suspected they were gay but faked it for a few generations -- and that made Everyone Happy! Yay Mandated Heterosexualness!)
Basically, I'm a straight monogamous dad-guy because, well, because. If I could be anything else because it would piss off people I don't like, I would cheerfully do that. Oh well.
Thus: K-Lo seems kind of stalker-creepy not to me but to My People, and if she comes within ten miles of my kids, I want a fucking restraining order.