Pic of the Day
Quote of the DayHaving discovered my cache of Easter eggs, my seven-year-old son sat me down for a serious confrontation. "Okay, I know you're the Easter Bunny, and I'm pretty sure you're Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy too. He paused and searched my face. "Tell me the truth now! Are you God too?" |
| Web Site Worth the Visit Build a Bouquet May will soon enough bring plenty of flowers. Meanwhile here's a web site that will let the user build their own handsome floral bouquet. CLICK HERE |
| TIDBITS |
Those Duke Lacrosse Players Do Not YET Deserve the Admiration of Conservatives
I happened to hear Rush Limbaugh, conservative pundit to millions, on the afternoon of 4/12/07 as he raved in solemn and reverential tones about how much respect and admiration he has for those poor Duke Lacrosse players who suffered so much because of runaway prosecutor Mike Nifong. Which they did, the entire team but especially the three actually charged for a crime they did not commit. For over a year those young boys have had their names drug through the mud not to mention the legal and personal costs the false accusations have cost them.
Yet as I watched the young men speak publicly for the first time at a news conference, I've yet to hear them say the one thing that would make me see them as wiser and having learned a very important life's lesson. In fact, a few parents of these boys have been interviewed by various pundits or another and their parents have yet to state the obvious lesson their sons should have learned from this past horrific year.
How about those boys share the wisdom they've learned in such a harsh manner to young men across the fruited plains? At least they SHOULD have learned something very basic as a result of their trials and tribulations and here's what I'm NOT hearing: the now officially-declared innocent Duke Lacrosse players have learned that throwing a rollicking, beer-guzzling, stripper-hiring party wasn't such a good idea and the law of unintended consequences from such boorish choices could kick in just as it has for them with a sudden and untrue charge of rape
Women, males need to understand, do not LIKE being strippers. Little girls do not aspire to be expert strippers when they grow up and few parents or siblings point proudly to a sister or daughter and declare them to be the best stripper on the planet. Stripping for a bunch of ogling males is not a glorious and wondrous thing and most strippers are women exactly like the pitiful creature who showed up to entertain those Duke Lacrosse players the night they decided to throw a happening x-rated party. If the debasing objectification of women doesn't shame those Lacrosse players enough to mention it during their fifteen minutes of fame and vindication, at least they, or their parents, could mention that the unintended consequences of a female riddled with drugs or bitter at having to debase herself for, yes I'll say it, a bunch of spoiled white adolescents, could cause all sorts of havoc. It's the unintended consequence of engaging in such sordid activities and hiring people with few morals and standards.
I consider myself a conservative and it distresses me to hear conservative paragon Rush Limbaugh praise these young men for their newfound wisdom when this conservative lady hasn't heard a whisper from those boys that they've learned that debasing other human beings is not such a good thing. Until those young men or their parents mention that the notion of such wild parties is not such a good idea and issue a warning to other young college men to avoid the turmoil that entered their lives as a result of this bad decision, I'm not convinced those boys have learned a thing.
None of this is to say that these boys weren't wronged. They surely were. A society where the government, in the form of an election-lusting prosecutor, can willy-nilly arrest citizens to further a personal prosecutorial goal is a society where freedom is in serious danger. I'd argue that a society in which its weakest members, in this case the desperate females who resort to debasement for survival, are routinely used by another thoughtless but more powerful social segment such as rich college males, is a society where freedom for all too is at risk.
I'd like to ask those boys how they'd feel if one of those strippers responding to their request for such entertainment was their sister. Would they enjoy sitting down with their Lacrosse-playing pals and watching the "show" as given by their sister? Would they be whooping and cheering their sister to continue on, to take it off? Would they enjoy the derogatory comments and lewd noises directed at their sister as she gives the show? If they wouldn't enjoy such a thing involving their sister and/or mothers, does it occur to these boys that a strippers is someone's sister and someone's daughter?
To my amazement, I even heard Limbaugh complain that Oprah Winfrey was inviting the Rutgers' girls basketball team on her show and Rush lamented that he's heard of no invitation extended to the Duke Lacrosse players. As if the two are the same!
The Rutgers' basketball team are a group of women trying to make a better life for themselves. They were innocently following the American dream by using their God-given talents pursuing an activity they loved, all the while practicing and sacrificing their free time towards a goal of excellence. Sure the damage done to them was but a vicious name-calling while those Duke Lacrosse boys suffered a far more heinous untrue criminal accusation. Which still doesn't make the two groups anywhere near equal. Let us remember that those Lacrosse players weren't practicing their Lacrosse moves or striving to do a better job at their sport when they found themselves in hot water. Those boys were throwing a tasteless, noisy, pointless party and for their entertainment they hired another human being to debase and humiliate herself. It's nowhere near the same thing and if no one else points this out to mighty Rush Limbaugh, well let me do this right now.
This is not to keep this focused on just Rush Limbaugh, a conservative commentator I enjoy on a regular basis. I've noted that many conservatives have echoed the same sort of sentiment, that those boys are heroes and should be crowned king of all maledom.
By me those Duke Lacrosse players will not be admired by this conservative lady until they say aloud that they've learned that debasing human beings should not be done for one's personal pleasure and this is a lesson they've learned well. Once I hear such a thing they will truly be the sort of male American that I can be proud of. To all conservatives who praise these boys, you bring no glory to the male conservative image, presenting instead a perception that conservative males view females as humans to be objectified and enjoyed with no mind to personal humanity.
Below, links of posts about the Duke rape case:
4/18/06
4/25/06
5/9/06
5/23/06
4/30/06
10/2006
1/2007
1/2007-2
2/2007
3/2007
Add POST to Technorati Favorites
=======================
3 comments:
What is this "having to" nonsense? No one "has to" strip.
Yes, stripping is debasing, but men do not debase strippers by hiring them. The women debase themselves by hiring themselves out as strippers, and then volunteering to be hooted and hollared at while doing so, setting almost no limits on what they will do and what they will put up with. Some strippers are prostitutes who use their gigs to get johns.
And guess what: I bet if you went into strip clubs, you would find no evidence that their patrons are more conservative than the general population. I'm not even sure what evidence you're offering that the Duke boys themselves are conservatives. Is it because they're white males? But by focusing on Rush Limbaugh, who has nothing to do with the players or the stripper, you're trying to paint this as a conservative issue.
Translation: Liberal men hire strippers, too. And, women objectify themselves constantly. They select their reading material, shows and advertisements. Those that wallow in their own self-image fantasies are their own victims, not the victims of men.
Oh, and one more thing: If the moral, decent people of this country tried to outlaw strip clubs and for-hire private stripping, can you guess who would be claiming that freedom of speech and privacy is being violated?
That's right. Liberals.
Gold star for you.
Listen, lady. I am sick to death of feminist hags who are blaming the victims here. Stripping is lucrative-has to be, to support Crystal Mangum's expensive habit, drugs. Crystal could have chosen a less lucrative line of work, like the military, but chose not to.
Furthermore, an ATM camera proves one of the accused LEFT when the strippers arrived.
Conclusion: for those who want to believe in the team's guilt, no amount of proof of innocence is acceptable.
So if men no longer hire strippers, what will the strippers do for money?
Why aren't they doing it now?
Post a Comment