Friday, May 27, 2016
Not so Nice Guys
Addendum: Another young Australian actress, Angourie Rice, stars as Ryan Gosling's 13 year old daughter in the movie Nice Guys. Angourie (who is actually 15) is asked by Ryan what she wants, to which she replies, " To give you a rim job." This is only the first of several sexually inappropriate language and innuendoes she participates in. Again, why is this behavior condoned in the media?
Monday, April 18, 2016
Situational Sexual Ethics
1. When I worked for state government in Tennessee, all employees were required to attend sexual harrassment training. Among other things, we were required to watch a video showing possible scenarios of harrassment. One video showed two men sitting in a break room. In walks a woman in a skirt that was tight and short. The first man, Jim, smiles at the woman and tells her that her skirt sure looks good! She appears to ignore his comment and leaves the room.
The second man, Bob waits until the woman has left, then tells Jim that his comment was inappropriate. Jim replies that if the woman did not want comments like this, she needs to wear more modest clothes.
The narrator then asks us, which man is right? After which we are told that Bob is right, that Jim had no right to comment on her clothes; that women had the right to freely express themselves without fear of unwanted comments from men!
Flash forward a few years:
2. A popular new TV show features an extended family of grandparents, parents and grandchildren. One of the grandchildren is played by a 10 year-old girl. In several episodes the girl is required to respond to, or speak, sexual humor. In one sketch she experiences she kisses a boy, then talks about it to her grandpa that that was her first kiss. In another episode she says something her brother doesn't like. Her brother, played by a twenty-two year old man, responds to her, "At least I don't stuff my bra!"
This show is by no means unique. On another show whose plots are exclusively about abusers and their prey, a boy who is portrayed as a teenage sex slave, talks of, when he is subdued, gives in, gets down on his knees and services one man after another.
Mandy Patinkin, who was the original star of the show Criminal Minds, left the show because he felt the show gratuitously, episode after episode, displayed sexual and physical violence.
My best friend Brad used to say, "What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander."
1. When I worked for state government in Tennessee, all employees were required to attend sexual harrassment training. Among other things, we were required to watch a video showing possible scenarios of harrassment. One video showed two men sitting in a break room. In walks a woman in a skirt that was tight and short. The first man, Jim, smiles at the woman and tells her that her skirt sure looks good! She appears to ignore his comment and leaves the room.
The second man, Bob waits until the woman has left, then tells Jim that his comment was inappropriate. Jim replies that if the woman did not want comments like this, she needs to wear more modest clothes.
The narrator then asks us, which man is right? After which we are told that Bob is right, that Jim had no right to comment on her clothes; that women had the right to freely express themselves without fear of unwanted comments from men!
Flash forward a few years:
2. A popular new TV show features an extended family of grandparents, parents and grandchildren. One of the grandchildren is played by a 10 year-old girl. In several episodes the girl is required to respond to, or speak, sexual humor. In one sketch she experiences she kisses a boy, then talks about it to her grandpa that that was her first kiss. In another episode she says something her brother doesn't like. Her brother, played by a twenty-two year old man, responds to her, "At least I don't stuff my bra!"
This show is by no means unique. On another show whose plots are exclusively about abusers and their prey, a boy who is portrayed as a teenage sex slave, talks of, when he is subdued, gives in, gets down on his knees and services one man after another.
Mandy Patinkin, who was the original star of the show Criminal Minds, left the show because he felt the show gratuitously, episode after episode, displayed sexual and physical violence.
My best friend Brad used to say, "What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander."
Tuesday, April 12, 2016
The End of the Nations
The presidential candidate Donald Trump has suggested building a wall on the U.S.- Mexico border to keep out illegal immigrants from entering the U.S.
An alternative to this would be to hire more border patrol officers. For instance guard towers could be placed every 1/10th of a mile along the 2000 mile border, thus requiring an extra 20,000 officers/ shift. To cover all three shifts plus relief officers for sickness and vacation would require perhaps a total of 100,000 officers. Salaries and benefits would cost $100,000/officer.Totaled up, this would cost $10 billion/year. Part of this cost would perhaps be offset by the decreased cost of the "War on Drugs".
This seems like a large amount of money, but as a part of the annual expenditures of the government it is small. But this will not be considered either.
Other plans surely exist, but would just as surely be demonized by the media and liberal establishment.
The real problem is an increasingly hostile attitude to the existence of the nation-states, of which the United States is one; i.e.a very significant part of the populace believes that illegal immigration is not a problem because all immigrants should be legal.
Questions: should " illegal immigrants"
1. Pay no taxes
2. Be given free health care, education, and housing?
3. Be allowed to vote?
If so, why should American citizens
1. Pay taxes?
2. Pay for health care,education, and housing?
3. Be allowed to vote?
It seems self-evident that all persons were not created equal.
The presidential candidate Donald Trump has suggested building a wall on the U.S.- Mexico border to keep out illegal immigrants from entering the U.S.
An alternative to this would be to hire more border patrol officers. For instance guard towers could be placed every 1/10th of a mile along the 2000 mile border, thus requiring an extra 20,000 officers/ shift. To cover all three shifts plus relief officers for sickness and vacation would require perhaps a total of 100,000 officers. Salaries and benefits would cost $100,000/officer.Totaled up, this would cost $10 billion/year. Part of this cost would perhaps be offset by the decreased cost of the "War on Drugs".
This seems like a large amount of money, but as a part of the annual expenditures of the government it is small. But this will not be considered either.
Other plans surely exist, but would just as surely be demonized by the media and liberal establishment.
The real problem is an increasingly hostile attitude to the existence of the nation-states, of which the United States is one; i.e.a very significant part of the populace believes that illegal immigration is not a problem because all immigrants should be legal.
Questions: should " illegal immigrants"
1. Pay no taxes
2. Be given free health care, education, and housing?
3. Be allowed to vote?
If so, why should American citizens
1. Pay taxes?
2. Pay for health care,education, and housing?
3. Be allowed to vote?
It seems self-evident that all persons were not created equal.
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