Listening to: My Kids Playing
Mood: Pissed.
Hello there. What a lovely day we have going on. Sky is blue…grass
is green. Why yes, I am procrastinating, how did you know? I have some mad
procrastinating skills. Writing is just so much more fun than working. Skipping
along to V today because this just made me so angry. Watch out people, I’m
digging out the soap box.
So. I was watching my absolute favorite TV host last night
on the internet because Comedy Central in India isn’t able to air John the same
day he tapes – probably to censor and avoid episodes that use words like
vagina. Once again, the US is up to some asshattery about women and their
bodies. John suggested that since we have a war on Christmas and a war on
women, why not just use some Christmas to neutralize the war on women – more specifically,
using a manger to keep US policy makers out of a place they have no business
being. As usual, this studly TV host has a hilarious way of pointing out when
people are being absurd. “The catholic church” subsequently got their panties
all in a bunch. Because you know, how dare you mention Vaginas and an inference
to Jesus in the same sentence? How dare you use religion to mock anything?
Catholic church, you’re up first. Would you please stop
crying like a whiney little toddler? We all know the function of humor and
comedians. Stop putting religion where it has no place. This is a political
issue (which all too often is mixed up with religion these days). The entire
point of this satire was not to skewer the church, but to skewer the
politicians who seem to think it’s their prerogative to be up in people’s
reproductive business. It was also a jab at the talking heads. You are not
talking heads Catholic church. Get over it.
To the politicians and talking heads. You can deny it all
you want, but this is in fact a systematic prejudice against women. If we told
men that they would have to start taking fertility pills and that they didn’t
have the choice of whether or not they wanted to share their sperm, I’m sure
there would be riots. For the love of sanity and everything that is actually
holy, stop acting like your personal belief system must be adopted by everyone
else. You are supposed to be leading a country (or giving factual news to a country)
made up of people originating from every place in the entire world. There is no
central belief system. You cannot force people to go along with your morals and
belief systems. We do not live in communist China. We ARE NOT communist China
and for a reason. Getting all up into people’s reproductive business isn’t what
America is about. Stop twisting it to fit your narrow view of right and wrong.
Giving my employer any information about my reproductive
choices is absolutely absurd, not to mention having to defend my choices or be
forced to follow someone else’s reproductive prerogative and prove that contraception
is for health reasons. I should be forced to have more children that I can’t
support or don’t want because someone high up has an agenda in the company I
work for? Should my choice about eating pork, for example, be taken away if I
work for a Muslim or a Jew? Are you volunteering to pay the half a million dollars
per child to raise them and send them to a public college? Are you the one who
has the responsibility of disciplining them and making sure they don’t turn out
to be axe murderers or lazy bums who mooch off society? Are you planning to sit
up and worry about them if they come home late and cry at night because you are
worried about how they are growing up? I didn’t think so. Seriously. Are we
back in the 18th century here? If my husband and I decide that we
don’t want any more children, what business is it of anyone else?
Having
children is not a moral, religious, or social obligation for everyone, thank
goodness. I do think that children are a blessing, but they also come with a
very heavy emotional and monetary price tag. As with anything else, you should
only have what you can afford. How is it fair to the 8th child born
that you can no longer afford to feed him or her because you have a regular job
and 8 kids? There’s a responsibility in deciding how many children you bring
into the world. Since corporations and the government aren’t taking
responsibility for the aftermath of reproduction, they should just butt the
hell out. The world is over populated as it is.
You know, the good old days may have seemed like a calmer,
quieter, more moral time. The fact is, that’s not necessarily true, nor does it
take into account that technology and progress are good things. If you want to
live in the past, go build a house on the Montana plains and do as you please.
Churn your own butter for Pete’s sake, but do not get into politics. I would venture to say that the vast majority
of people recognize that progress is important, even if our definition of
morality and acceptable behavior has to adapt as well.
John – honey I love you. I am so glad that your voice of
sanity is still heard on TV. Please, do not ever sanitize your content because
you may offend someone – then you will be just like them. I do however have a bone to pick with your
joke. I don’t want a manger, or anything else related to religion anywhere near
my vagina. I do get the joke – and really,
it was brilliantly executed - but religion has already put in a major bid to
control people’s reproductive rights for almost all of time. Let’s not even
open the can of worms and let them start with that crap all over again. To be
blunt, I’ll put whatever I decide in my vagina and everyone else can just butt
the heck out.
Seriously US, if you keep this shit up, I will not be coming
back.
Becky
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