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Jul. 25th, 2006 06:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
which_chickSo I'm surfing the internet (is for porn) and came across this website where they dress girls like it's the 1950's and tie up young boys with duct tape. No, really.
Depends on what you mean by wrong, I guess. We've got Freedom of Religion (though I'm always carefully reminded that this does not mean Freedom from Religion by those who are all about the Godhead) in this country. It's in the Bill of Rights, not that anyone bothers to read the fucking thing these days. (For the pedants among us, the first amendment reads thusly: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.) I guess, writ large, it's okay to dress girls like it's the 1950's and tie up young buys with duct tape for religion. Yep. It's okay as a macro.
How 'bout the thinking behind the activities? The macro thinking is God wants us to do it. While I don't hold with that as a reasoned basis for doing much of anything (and here, I might well say "Atheist" in much the same voice that Captain Jack Sparrow says "Pirate") it isn't thinking that I can politely call wrong in civilized discussion. *sigh* I guess if you allow that there's a God and that you want to do what God wants you to do and that this whole 1950's and duct-tape adventure is bound up in what God wants, well, yeah, it makes sense. On a macro level, still mostly unobjectionable.
But still I'm writing a post for you here. So where is the wrong? The devil is, as always, in the details.
The way this site is written, girls have to be modest so that boys have an easier time of staying pure. WTF? I... buh... the way I dress is responsible for the souls of others? Hardly fair, I gotta say. My sartorial choices are in no way studied enough for that kind of effect from MY end. It's not like I'm making a special temptress effort or anything. Also, I don't think anyone has been tempted towards sin by contemplating what I look like under my clothes in more than ten years.
Also, nowhere on the website does it discuss how young men should dress so that I don't ogle them. It's okay for young men to wander around in those low-slung pants and tank tops that cling without a care in the world?!? They're only like fifteen. How dare they flaunt their sixpack perfection and lean, youthful bodies in front of me! It's like they're ASKING to be stared at, with their careful scruff, lean arms, and studied expressions of indolence. Dang. How can I not want that? It's pretty. Anybody would want to look at it. Sauce for the goose, mind. This website totally ignores sauce for the goose. Modesty isn't a one-way street, damn it. What we need here is unisex Afghan burqas.
Finally, Just For Men: I don't care if you have a penis or not -- take some damn responsibility for your impure thoughts.
Full disclosure: I'm way too old to do more than ogle and I take good care to follow the most important rule for those of us in the wonderful world of adulthood: Ogle discreetly. For youths among people their own ages, well, they're too wrapped up in the clueless years to get all *that* much fucking done and those gorgeous bodies will be long gone before they figure it all out. You've no idea the karmic satisfaction that this gives me. (It is things like this that convince me firmly that if there were a God, sie'd have a vicious sense of humor.)
Depends on what you mean by wrong, I guess. We've got Freedom of Religion (though I'm always carefully reminded that this does not mean Freedom from Religion by those who are all about the Godhead) in this country. It's in the Bill of Rights, not that anyone bothers to read the fucking thing these days. (For the pedants among us, the first amendment reads thusly: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.) I guess, writ large, it's okay to dress girls like it's the 1950's and tie up young buys with duct tape for religion. Yep. It's okay as a macro.
How 'bout the thinking behind the activities? The macro thinking is God wants us to do it. While I don't hold with that as a reasoned basis for doing much of anything (and here, I might well say "Atheist" in much the same voice that Captain Jack Sparrow says "Pirate") it isn't thinking that I can politely call wrong in civilized discussion. *sigh* I guess if you allow that there's a God and that you want to do what God wants you to do and that this whole 1950's and duct-tape adventure is bound up in what God wants, well, yeah, it makes sense. On a macro level, still mostly unobjectionable.
But still I'm writing a post for you here. So where is the wrong? The devil is, as always, in the details.
The way this site is written, girls have to be modest so that boys have an easier time of staying pure. WTF? I... buh... the way I dress is responsible for the souls of others? Hardly fair, I gotta say. My sartorial choices are in no way studied enough for that kind of effect from MY end. It's not like I'm making a special temptress effort or anything. Also, I don't think anyone has been tempted towards sin by contemplating what I look like under my clothes in more than ten years.
Also, nowhere on the website does it discuss how young men should dress so that I don't ogle them. It's okay for young men to wander around in those low-slung pants and tank tops that cling without a care in the world?!? They're only like fifteen. How dare they flaunt their sixpack perfection and lean, youthful bodies in front of me! It's like they're ASKING to be stared at, with their careful scruff, lean arms, and studied expressions of indolence. Dang. How can I not want that? It's pretty. Anybody would want to look at it. Sauce for the goose, mind. This website totally ignores sauce for the goose. Modesty isn't a one-way street, damn it. What we need here is unisex Afghan burqas.
Finally, Just For Men: I don't care if you have a penis or not -- take some damn responsibility for your impure thoughts.
Full disclosure: I'm way too old to do more than ogle and I take good care to follow the most important rule for those of us in the wonderful world of adulthood: Ogle discreetly. For youths among people their own ages, well, they're too wrapped up in the clueless years to get all *that* much fucking done and those gorgeous bodies will be long gone before they figure it all out. You've no idea the karmic satisfaction that this gives me. (It is things like this that convince me firmly that if there were a God, sie'd have a vicious sense of humor.)
