This morning, Beck and Stu were “ruminating” about Bud Light saving itself as a brand, and decided they should continue to fire people, apologize, and lay low, and maybe years from now everyone would forget…many years from now, maybe.
And, bring back the Clydesdales big time.
Then, Beck had a suggestion; that he would LOVE to see parents attend School Board meetings and demand equal time for children to “explore their sexuality” by having Playboy Bunnies and Chippendales pole dancing, twerking and doing story-time.
I think listeners may take up the plan. I wonder how long it will take?
And, of course, heterosexual porn and user guides should be available in school libraries, on display and read at appropriate grade levels, K through 12.
Well the drag-queen groomers probably wouldn’t like the idea, but they might concede, just to keep their own thing going.
So I don’t know if the bluff would work.
Bud has already tried a couple of Clydesdale commercials, but I don’t think anybody who’s seen the Mulvaney ones is falling for it.
Beck might be being facetious, but the point is that parents should be against the premature sexualization of children in any way. Corrupt hetero-sexualization of children has long been established in American culture.
There is not much space for innocent childhood in America culture. One might have hoped the K-6 classroom remained clear of pushing the idea that dressing up and parading about as a girl - or, with less variety and sparkle, as a a boy - is any kind of “exploration of sexuality”. “Sexuality” cannot be taught to children without modeling the adult behaviour that signals it i.e. exposing them to pornography. Drag queens acts may be more or less overtly pornographic, but the “value” these acts model is narcissism - or plain old vanity. Not a value, a pathology.
I don’t think he was being facetious, although it was not a well thought-out statement.
School Boards would have to answer as to why they would deny equal time for “exploring heterosexuality” as they do for “exploring homosexuality” and “exploring trans-sexuality” I suppose. If the point is to expose children at an early age to an exploration of sexuality, then equal time would be a point to make.
Who knows if some parents might choose to make that point as a way of reminding school boards that neither should be a goal of public education and in doing so make newspaper headlines, bring local media attention, and encourage parents to speak up?
You are right about the loss of childhood, which has occurred over the last couple of decades or more, Claire. Many cultural and societal trends have contributed to that, and it has been disheartening to say the least. It has been a sickness of all of Western Civilization and not just America.
Where and when did this sickness or trend originate and how long has it been spreading? Maybe it has been moving through human societies for longer than we realize and the West has kept it at bay until recent decades with religious dogma that meant more to people in the past. I don’t know, but thinking about it makes me wonder.
