The Finch Formerly Known As Gold

22 September 2006

What the world needs now

Love, sweet love?

"More dried-up, bitter old post-menopausal hags," says Andrea Harris:

No one suffers fools less gladly than a tart, astringent crone who is no longer in thrall to her hormones and thus has gained mental strength to compensate handsomely for the wasted years she spent dripping and seeping. However, thanks to the miracles of modern medicine [/SARCASM ALERT], there are fewer of those every year. No, most women these days, far from being dried up, are far too moist for longer than God and nature intended them to be, in fact they are positively drenched with the stolen juices of other women's youths. Elizabeth Bathory used to bathe in the blood of young virgins in order to stay perpetually young — today's Modern Woman v. 2.0 soaks in a daily bath of the slaughtered innocence of society, where thanks to the zombie stinking of the grave of dead philosophies that is the contemporary "feminist" movement women are free to be sluts and nothing else. And paired with this evil liquid substance is the older, yet no less poisonous, potion that is traditional female morbidity. Too many women of my acquaintance (young and old) are addicted to those creepy medical shows that seem to only feature children with deforming diseases or people who have been in horrifying disfiguring accidents. They are also fond of those shows that feature another kind of deforming disease, the Jerry Springer-type trash talk show. And of course, there is that old standby, the soap opera. And these "likes" carry over into what they read; and that fact combined with the hold Zombie Feminism has on the literary world, has produced the Oprah-approved victim-novel.

Or, on occasion, the Oprah-approved bogus memoir.

I think, though, this "free to be sluts" business is as much a matter of politics as of philosophy: the only sort of freedom unequivocally endorsed by the left, and therefore by its client subcultures, is sexual freedom. (Which, of course, comes with chains of its own, but that's another issue.)

And I suspect that the endless parade of feebs and fools that crosses the television screen between Good Morning America and World News Tonight is intended, at some level, as a self-esteem booster for the customers, since there is nothing, after all, more important than self-esteem, and even the least-favored of us can feel superior to that sorry lot. It's Socrates updated: the unexamined life is a source of entertainment.

Posted at 10:51 AM to Almost Yogurt


Hmmmm. Now I'm worried; my wife has taken to regularly reading a website about children who suffer from neuroblastoma.

Posted by: McGehee at 11:50 AM on 22 September 2006

but wait ... sluts aren't all bad ... but when they are ... ooo la la!

:)

Posted by: Ron at 5:00 PM on 22 September 2006

...but when they aren't 'ooo la la', they're (too often) 'oh my Gawd'!

Couldn't wade past 'crone' in that diatribe. Yeeeesh. Some lives should stay unexamined.

Posted by: Mister Snitch! at 7:25 PM on 22 September 2006

Democrats: The sex with anyone, anytime, on demand, consequence free party. People wonder why they have such a hard time concentrating on stuff like terrorism; this is it.

Posted by: Matt at 7:37 AM on 23 September 2006

Sounds like sex and the city....
But as a doc, most of the women I see harmed by the sexual revolution are women raising a couple kids with no decent man to help. Yes there are "sluts" but these are either not living in Oklahoma, or more likely sexually abused girls who ran away from home and became hookers...I've heard of other types in movies and books, but they aren't the ones I treat at 3 am in the ER for chlamydia.

Posted by: Boinkie at 4:13 AM on 24 September 2006

"Couldn't wade past 'crone' in that diatribe."

So silly men are still afraid of crones? Good, I have something else to look forward to.

"Yes there are "sluts" but these are either not living in Oklahoma, or more likely sexually abused girls who ran away from home and became hookers..."

Of course, I was like totally condemning abused girls too. I can't stand those little trollops. [/SARCASM] I mean really, do I have to explain things with a big sheet of paper and a magic marker? (Or use stupid indicator "tags" like I just did.) Why do you think there are so many abused girls these days? Of course there have always been abused girls, but there seems to be an epidemic of people who have absolutely no conception of the fact that it's wrong to molest their preteen female children. At least in the bad old days the nasty old repressions were a check on most behavior. But repression is bad! said all the studies by "experts." So we threw the baby out with the bathwater, all in the name of letting upper-middle-class college grads feel good about themselves.

Posted by: Andrea Harris at 10:01 AM on 24 September 2006

Gosh your correspondents really exemplify the things that the rest of the world thinks americans exemplify.

Lucky you.

Posted by: Incognita at 4:56 AM on 25 September 2006

You didn't expect them to be wrong all the time, did you? :)

Posted by: CGHill at 6:22 AM on 25 September 2006