In case you need any more proof that people are oblivious and stupid.
A blogger writes about the ideological conditioning that her findamentalist parents subjected her to and that she now resents:
Ten years ago I cheered as politicians denounced gay marriage. Ten years ago I spoke to reporters, explaining my support for “traditional marriage.” And here I am, ten years later, crying tears of joy that marriage equality is now the law of the land in all fifty states.
Without any transition from this thought, though, she continues to tell the readers the following about her 6 – year-old daughter:
My daughter Sally has been a supporter of marriage equality since she first became aware of it several years ago.
Just like her parents, the blogger is so utterly clueless that she believes a toddler is capable of having political opinions. In reality, of course, any kid’s political agenda consists entirely of pleasing Mommy and Daddy. The poor child just says whatever she needs to please Mommy, and the insistence with which she feels she need to perform this task is quite sad. And the blogger (who has published maybe over a hundred posts denouncing her parents for stuffing their politics down her throat since her childhood) is not noticing that she is parroting her parents in a really scary way.
The chances that the blogger’s daughter will grow up and start a blog about how her oppressive parents dragged her to gay – support rallies but now she has repented and knows better are extremely high. Because everybody needs to construct their own identity outside of the shadow of lecturing parents.
P.S. By the way, when I was a child, nobody lectured me on gay marriage (because it wasn’t an issue under discussion in the USSR at all), and you know what? I grew up and figured it out all on my own. And I’m sure that my support of gay rights is entirely my own because I was accidentally left in peace to make up my own mind.
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Clarissa, OT but I wanted to ask you this for a long time. What does it mean to you to be a woman? If you don’t believe that woman are cognitively or behaviorally different from men, then what does it mean to be a woman?
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Being a woman means simply having and managing the female reproductive apparatus. And being a man is having and managing the male reproductive apparatus. Everything else is personal choice and complete and utter fabrication.
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It seems a very delicate situation to be in as a parent, when a child asks parent’s opinion about something the adult feels strongly. Where does saying what one thinks end and the ideological conditioning begins?
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I read this blogger a lot and she keeps posting these conversations with the little girl where the child is trying so, so hard to make these speeches on political subjects that will please her mother. What is the likelihood that she has her own deep interest in gay marriage or atheism at the age of six? How can they have any relevance in her life? Obviously, they can’t, and she’s simply using this to connect with the mother. And the mother is using the child to rebel against her own parents.
None of this is such a big deal, except for the girl learning how to please in exchange for love. And this is not a very good pattern to get into.
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“None of this is such a big deal, except for the girl learning how to please in exchange for love”
You are too kind, she’s teaching the child to erase herself for a pale simulacrum of love, just like her parents taught her.
I have no doubt that some day the child will do the same thing to her offspring.
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That’s the saddest part: we are doomed to repeat our parents’ scenarios unless we become aware of the scenarios.
A kid who arrived at an opinion before she got out of diapers – I mean, seriously? How can one be so clueless?
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\ P.S. By the way, when I was a child, nobody lectured me on gay marriage
I remember how surprised I was when I went with my grandmother to buy dishes in a shop in my childhood in Ukraine, she talked with a male saler and then I heard from her that he was gay. I was surprised since:
1 – a gay person
2 – my grandmother talked normally with him
\ (because it wasn’t an issue under discussion in the USSR at all)
I was born after you, so heard a little about gays. Probably the first gay person I saw (or 2nd after the saler) was on a singer on TV – Boris Moiseev. I always felt disgusted by his looks and voice (not because of being gay). Then read a small bit of his autobiography in the library and began thinking even worse about him.
Now checked wiki and turns out he is Jewish and the first Russian gay singer who came out of the closet ( первый гей-певец России, которые совершил каминг-аут). Have you ever heard him? I am sure he is on YouTube.
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Of course, I know Moiseev. He is very talented. He’s been very sick, so these days he can’t really perform. You can see that he’s barely managing to stand upright in his recent appearances. But he’s performances 15-20 years ago were absolutely brilliant.
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Okay I looked him up on google images and ….. weird looking. Like really weird looking. He might be hugely talented musically but he is one weird looking human.
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I wouldn’t say he’s talent is musical. He used to create these huge, flamboyant, over-the-top shows that were unlike anything else in Russia.
He’s had a stroke as well as a million plastic surgeries, so he does look very creepy these days. He’s a phenomenon from back in the early 1990s when we were first discovering what a show might look like.
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I wasn’t even talking about the later pictures (where it’s clear there are medical issues). But in the pictures where he looks to be at his … peak look very weird, like those people that have plastic surgery to look like Japanese anime characters or something.
And the basic physiology of the face is weird to me too, one of those phenotypes I associate rightly or wrongly with ethnic Russians (though one of the members of the Ukrainian group Quest Pistols has it too, something Finnic? Mongol?)
A friend who likes Russian language music calls the guy in Quest Pistols “Ryboszczur” (Fish-rat – it sounds funnier in Polish)
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I suspect that some so-called progressives are engaging in the same sort of half-intellectual/half-moral masturbation as social conservatives, or nationalists, or Putinists… (Starting points are different, but the mechanism is the same.) They take whatever they happen to currently believe in, and start producing all kinds of perfectly logical consequences they can find. When arriving to some unreasonable conclusion, they refuse to accept that they have disproved their original views by a reductio ad absurdum type of argument, they keep insisting that the reality has to bend according to their ideas.
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