You hear me all the time railing the Left for political correctness. I hate political correctness for obvious reasons, being a Freedom lover. Sometimes, the most stupid p.c. crap comes from the Right.
The firing of Joycelyn Elders
For example, the firing of Joycelyn Elders. Whether you loved her or hated her, she got canned for about the most stupid firing I’ve seen in politics. At a U.N. AIDS conference, someone asked if with AIDS around, should we promote teaching masturbation. She simply answered affirmitively.
Now, teaching masturbation is silly, because if someone can’t figure out how to masturbate, I think there are seriously deeper issues involved there. However, you don’t fire someone for answering a simple question. The blame for this falls 100% on the Right, for it was their bitching and whining that led to her dismissal for that simple reply.
John Ashcroft covering a statue’s breast
Then there’s John Ashcroft. I loved him when it came to guns. I hated him when it comes to Puritanism. What immediately comes to mind is his covering of Lady Liberty’s exposed breast.
It’s a freaking statue. When I first heard about that, I thought it was a joke. What scared me is that it wasn’t a joke. No wonder Ashcroft lost an election to a dead guy. Heck, if I weren’t such a gun nut, I would have voted for a dead guy over Ashcroft.
Breasts are some of God’s greatest creations. Your mother’s breasts fed you, and gave you immunity to all the diseases she built up immunity to. Imagine all the millions of people who would be dead today if it weren’t for breasts. Breasts are not sex organs, and America’s backwards beliefs about breasts frankly disturb me. If I were running the show, if a man could take his shirt off at a beach, so should a woman. Sure folks would stare at first, but we’ll get used to it sooner than you realize.
Movie ratings
The whole movie rating system is completely out of whack, and I’ll put more blame on the Right than the Left for this one. You can see someone get decapitated and have their head roll by your feet (Indiana Jones 3 - PG-13), blow tons of people away (just about every action movie in Hollywood), and even see someone explode into a mass of blood (Mission to Mars - which was PG, not even PG-13) and not get an R rating. Throw a naked body in there, you get an R rating.
In real life, what do you think would screw up a kid more? Seeing someone’s head get sliced off or seeing someone naked? I think we got this one backwards.
