I dislike the right-wing of politics. Their talking points seem to consist mostly of apocalyptic prophesying about how our world will crumble if legislation they don't like passes ("If we let the gays marry, then our children will explode!"). The conclusions they come to are often absurd and ridiculous, and I find it tiresome, annoying, and really stupid. It's fine to have an opinion and not agree with something, but at least attempt to come up with a real, logical reason for doing so.
They also don't know how to pick there battles, which is how we end up with Bill O'Reilly attacking Jennifer Aniston, because of course he is. Why on earth would Bill O'Reilly be attacking a mediocre actress who as far as I can tell appears to be a really nice person? Because she is DESTROYING OUR SOCIETY.
See, Aniston has a new movie coming out called The Switch, which involves her character artificially inseminating herself so that she can have and raise a kid despite not having found Mr. Right, proving that yesterday's science fiction is today's rom-com fodder. While promoting said film, Aniston went on to say this in an interview:
"Women are realizing more and more that you don't have to settle, they don't have to fiddle with a man to have that child. They are realizing if it's that time in their life and they want this part they can do it with or without that."
I happen to agree with that line of thinking. Most of us men-folk can be pretty dickish, so if a woman is having a hard time finding a halfway decent guy but still wants to be able fulfill a greater purpose by bringing in and guiding another life, power to them. Mr. O'Reilly, however, isn't as progressive in his thought process as I am (what with me being a college educated elitist). He demeaned Aniston's opinion, going on about how you can't replace the role of a father in a child's life and how they bring a "psychology to children that in this society is under emphasized" (yeah, I'm not sure what that means either). So all those single moms whose husbands died in Iraq are just terrible people because now their kids won't have the right "psychology."
But here's where it gets ridiculous.
Bringing in a "won't somebody please think of the children!" moment (because if anyone is thinking of the children, it's Bill fucking O'Reilly), O'Reilly went on to say that "She's throwing a message out to 12-year-olds and 13-year-olds that, 'Hey you don't need a guy. You don't need a dad.' That is destructive to our society."
Now, perhaps I missed something, but I don't think 12 and 13 year olds are hanging onto Jennifer Aniston's every word. In fact, I'd bet that many wouldn't know who she is. If this were Justin Bieber, yeah, 12 and 13 year olds would definitely get the message. But I'm pretty sure they're too busy reading about non-sex in Twilight to be bothered by anything Jennifer Aniston has to say. They are not her fanbase, and she is not talking to them.
If you have a problem with women being independent and not needing a man to be a parent because you are old fashioned and don't want to try and wrap your head around the idea that women can get around fine without them, fine, say so. But if you are going to instead pretend that some uppity celebrity is poisoning our youth, you should make sure the youth actually cares about said celebrity. You never hear anyone complaining that something Lady Gaga said is going to effect senior citizens, do you? Of course not, they don't care (or know) who she is. Same logic at play here.
Or better yet, DON'T PRTENED THINGS IN THE FIRST PLACE.
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