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in between job hunts, i've been running my mouth and making blanket statements i'll probably regret soon.
on the kid-toucher list & age of consent:
when it comes to kid-touching... it's just so subjective. we want a law that fits every situation but that's impossible. there is no ultimate solution. i think legislators are trying to have enough laws on the books to really fuck up the offenders that turn their blood cold, and deter the lessers.
a better way, it seems, would be to look at everything on a case by case basis. however, we don't have time/we won't make time.
the data i've read boils down to: most kids are gonna get touched by someone they know. the data also seems to reflect that we as a society are getting more and more obsessed with this shit.
i mean, romeo and juliet laws in place, what are these kids doing to get prosecuted? is it the parents? why is he dating some girl whose parents are trying to put him in jail? why doesn't he date a girl his own fucking age?
i wrote another paragraph on this but it made me feel bad for devoting so much thought energy to the problems of attractive teenagers. i think i've finally found the demographic i don't give a fuck about. i am completely apathetic about teenagers whose only problem is that they might be so dumb that they happen into this situation and are not creative/sneaky enough to get out of it.
i have had an epiphany. this is natural selection. we must not interfere.
and in response to a friend's call for revolution:
i am stolidly against the apocalypse. i think it's a terrible idea, a lazy idea. we have woken to the world's problems created much by our own hands and now everyone wants to quit and give up?
i firmly think that if we let civilization fall apart we won't have a clean slate, we'll just have a lot of broken stuff.
right now, i think we should not be afraid to train for this new world that we want. we should not be afraid to work hard at it every day. you can't shop your way to a revolution. you can't fuck, smoke, and wear a pretty dress your way there either. i am trying to change and do more, be responsible for the things i do.
also, another conundrum. what is more terrible? doing something cruel out of innocence or doing something cruel because i have weighed the tears/blood on the other end and found them to be acceptable? this new burden of knowing the consequences of our actions could stand to ruin a lot of alibis. people might have to stop thinking of themselves as pure-hearted. at the same time, i don't know. everything is still forming and i suppose will be until i turn my brain off.
i was sitting in an upstairs room at a club which wound.
a boy refrained from telling me a thing about cats, about something terrible that people do to cats.
i was sober and i said, "there's a proverb i grew up with. it isn't from Proverbs or anything. it came from this warrior woman novel i read when i was a little girl. the same one that made me start eating mushrooms because lord if i was ever going to exist in the wild- point being, there's an idea: Is is worse not to know or not to want to know? the answer is supposed to be: Not to want to know. so don't tell me now but tell me sometime when it's sunny out and i have a good bike ride ahead of me. that shouldn't prove too hard, maybe tomorrow. everything in this world that is information, i want to be able to know it. i should be able to handle it. i want to be able to hold all of it. that's the sort of person i want to be. i'm not there yet, but i'm working towards it."
"so tell you in the sun."
"so tell me in the sun, for now. i don't want to know right now, but in general i want to know. soon."
on the kid-toucher list & age of consent:
when it comes to kid-touching... it's just so subjective. we want a law that fits every situation but that's impossible. there is no ultimate solution. i think legislators are trying to have enough laws on the books to really fuck up the offenders that turn their blood cold, and deter the lessers.
a better way, it seems, would be to look at everything on a case by case basis. however, we don't have time/we won't make time.
the data i've read boils down to: most kids are gonna get touched by someone they know. the data also seems to reflect that we as a society are getting more and more obsessed with this shit.
i mean, romeo and juliet laws in place, what are these kids doing to get prosecuted? is it the parents? why is he dating some girl whose parents are trying to put him in jail? why doesn't he date a girl his own fucking age?
i wrote another paragraph on this but it made me feel bad for devoting so much thought energy to the problems of attractive teenagers. i think i've finally found the demographic i don't give a fuck about. i am completely apathetic about teenagers whose only problem is that they might be so dumb that they happen into this situation and are not creative/sneaky enough to get out of it.
i have had an epiphany. this is natural selection. we must not interfere.
and in response to a friend's call for revolution:
i am stolidly against the apocalypse. i think it's a terrible idea, a lazy idea. we have woken to the world's problems created much by our own hands and now everyone wants to quit and give up?
i firmly think that if we let civilization fall apart we won't have a clean slate, we'll just have a lot of broken stuff.
right now, i think we should not be afraid to train for this new world that we want. we should not be afraid to work hard at it every day. you can't shop your way to a revolution. you can't fuck, smoke, and wear a pretty dress your way there either. i am trying to change and do more, be responsible for the things i do.
also, another conundrum. what is more terrible? doing something cruel out of innocence or doing something cruel because i have weighed the tears/blood on the other end and found them to be acceptable? this new burden of knowing the consequences of our actions could stand to ruin a lot of alibis. people might have to stop thinking of themselves as pure-hearted. at the same time, i don't know. everything is still forming and i suppose will be until i turn my brain off.
i was sitting in an upstairs room at a club which wound.
a boy refrained from telling me a thing about cats, about something terrible that people do to cats.
i was sober and i said, "there's a proverb i grew up with. it isn't from Proverbs or anything. it came from this warrior woman novel i read when i was a little girl. the same one that made me start eating mushrooms because lord if i was ever going to exist in the wild- point being, there's an idea: Is is worse not to know or not to want to know? the answer is supposed to be: Not to want to know. so don't tell me now but tell me sometime when it's sunny out and i have a good bike ride ahead of me. that shouldn't prove too hard, maybe tomorrow. everything in this world that is information, i want to be able to know it. i should be able to handle it. i want to be able to hold all of it. that's the sort of person i want to be. i'm not there yet, but i'm working towards it."
"so tell you in the sun."
"so tell me in the sun, for now. i don't want to know right now, but in general i want to know. soon."