Guest Post by Eric

I started thinking about the lies we tell women watching That 70's Show with Taylor and Cameron on Wednesday night. The show's main female character tries to reconcile the fact that all her friends and, more importantly, her boyfriend read pornography frequently. She is initially confused. Confusion leads to curiosity. Curiosity leads to disappointment and eventually anger. And then, sadly she accepts it. She says something to the effect of, "You're like this and there's nothing I can do about it," and everything is perfect. That's it. Case closed. There is no mention of how porn is an addicting purity murderer and how it robs men and women by exchanging real love for empty, physical sensations. The episode also failed to comment on the long term effects on women who are forced to compete with airburshed, false beauty. You can see it in the eyes of a thirteen year old girl when she picks up some teen magazine and does her best to emulate the contrived women inside. It doesn't subside either. That thirteen year old girl grows up into the middle-aged woman reading the same crap under different titles. Unfortunately, we've told women that they must conform to a certain mold or they aren't beautiful. We've told them that we are going to indulge ourselves with lust and they had better get used to the idea. We've told them that they are little more than stimulants. And they have believed us.

Go ahead. Go to a club and look at women's faces. It doesn't look like they are having fun. It just looks like they're trying to impress someone. They're faces betray boredom and falsehood. Then take a look at single men who hang out in clubs. To be honest, I don't even want to talk about it because it disgusts me. They remind me of Vito Corleone selecting his fruit from the vendor on the street. This one is too soft. Put it back. That one is good enough. I guess I'll keep it. We all know how that purchase turned out. (Okay. As much as I would like to believe that everyone has seen The Godfather, I realize that there exists among you an uncultured few who have not yet experienced the masterpiece of cinema. Vito gets shot, now go see the movie. Digression ended.)

Women deserve more than the crap we feed them. My feelings don't stem from chivalry or Southern hospitality or anything like that. I just think that we treat people as if they were worth more than a piece of fruit... because they are.

posted by Cameron Lawrence at 14:46