mikeyboi20 (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} mikeyboi20) wrote,@ 2009-04-11 17:29:00 |
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I'm kind of conservative
So something I'm begining to learn about myself is i'm kind of socialy conservative. Not that I'm saying I'd ever vote that way but its a view point that I have that shapes much of my outlook on the world. For years I've labled my conservative leanings as a product of nerosis. But now I'm thinking that I am being unfair to myself by blocking this worldview out. How am I socialy conservative you may ask. Well I will tell you.
I think that sex has become way too much a part of social discourse. It's everwhere in TV and movies. Additionally, the rise in teenage sexuality and drug use and abuse in tv and film has led to an increases in teenage pregnency and STD's and drug use and abuse. I dont have a statistic but surely that fact has to be at least partialy true.
You know who I blam 90210. Yes you hear me right 90210. Unlike its canadien predesesor degrasi high. 90210 used only hot actors and peppy music to convey the “perils of “ drug abuse and ramant tenage casual sex. See the great thing about degrasi was that there were enoupgh ugly kids and really bad music that you felt like you were watching a student hygene picture. I'm just saying that shows are tottal liers today with there next time a very special episode promos its not about informing its about saduceing the audince and it's done under the guis of afterschool special but really its just more soft core porn pumped out to keep the masses buying stuff regardless of what the consequences are.
So I've realised that my views around intamcy arn't all that strange. In my previous live journal I said that I wanted to take it so slow with the next person I date that we don't even kiss on the fourth date. That was a bit of an exsageration Because I don't even think the most chaste mormon couple can live up to that standard. But I definetly want to feel a “Real” conection with someone before getting to anything phisical. I don't think theres anything inherently evil or dirty about casual sex. Emotionaly I feel that way but I don't think that way. And I think that that is where the problem lies in the so called culture wars. One side wants to label peoples sexuality as wrong or dirty and the otherside wants to label people who disagree with them neurotic or represed.
I think the truth is that people simply put diffrent meaning on phisical intimacy to some it's like a handshake to others even a makeout sesh with someone has some strong emotions conected to it. It think the point is too not label one point right or wrong just diffrent, as long as the handshaker is interacting with an aware consenting adult. That being said both groups have a responsibility to the other. The emotional people must stop calling the handshake people sluts. The handshake people must stop assumeing that eveyone is a handshake person.
So something I'm begining to learn about myself is i'm kind of socialy conservative. Not that I'm saying I'd ever vote that way but its a view point that I have that shapes much of my outlook on the world. For years I've labled my conservative leanings as a product of nerosis. But now I'm thinking that I am being unfair to myself by blocking this worldview out. How am I socialy conservative you may ask. Well I will tell you.
I think that sex has become way too much a part of social discourse. It's everwhere in TV and movies. Additionally, the rise in teenage sexuality and drug use and abuse in tv and film has led to an increases in teenage pregnency and STD's and drug use and abuse. I dont have a statistic but surely that fact has to be at least partialy true.
You know who I blam 90210. Yes you hear me right 90210. Unlike its canadien predesesor degrasi high. 90210 used only hot actors and peppy music to convey the “perils of “ drug abuse and ramant tenage casual sex. See the great thing about degrasi was that there were enoupgh ugly kids and really bad music that you felt like you were watching a student hygene picture. I'm just saying that shows are tottal liers today with there next time a very special episode promos its not about informing its about saduceing the audince and it's done under the guis of afterschool special but really its just more soft core porn pumped out to keep the masses buying stuff regardless of what the consequences are.
So I've realised that my views around intamcy arn't all that strange. In my previous live journal I said that I wanted to take it so slow with the next person I date that we don't even kiss on the fourth date. That was a bit of an exsageration Because I don't even think the most chaste mormon couple can live up to that standard. But I definetly want to feel a “Real” conection with someone before getting to anything phisical. I don't think theres anything inherently evil or dirty about casual sex. Emotionaly I feel that way but I don't think that way. And I think that that is where the problem lies in the so called culture wars. One side wants to label peoples sexuality as wrong or dirty and the otherside wants to label people who disagree with them neurotic or represed.
I think the truth is that people simply put diffrent meaning on phisical intimacy to some it's like a handshake to others even a makeout sesh with someone has some strong emotions conected to it. It think the point is too not label one point right or wrong just diffrent, as long as the handshaker is interacting with an aware consenting adult. That being said both groups have a responsibility to the other. The emotional people must stop calling the handshake people sluts. The handshake people must stop assumeing that eveyone is a handshake person.
