Was looking for a particular pic in my sprawling and extensive collection and got caught up in the browsing of my virtual attic, and so I thought “random picture dumps seem popular on Stumble Upon, what the heck, I will do one of my own. ”
But I am a writer, and I have a blog so I have someplace to write, so there will of course be commentary. 🙂
Oh, and as always, click for full size.
First up, there’s this guy.
Someone's dressed up for Leather Mardi Gras!
That’s the pic I was originally looking for. I saw this particular fellow on a documentary that I was watching, and I suddenly realized…. wait, they always show this exact dude when they want to quickly portray the idea of “the new sexual freedom” or “gay rights” or something like that.
I have seen this guy in a bunch of documentaries and news items and such. And when you think about it, what a coup. In a world with Gay Pride parades in every major city and millions of us fags dressing up in our most outlandish costumes to be Queen for a Day, this one dude managed to top them all to be the instant image of sexual freedom and gay freakyness and all that wonderful stuff.
So congratulations, dude! You are, officially, the Queen of Gay.
Plus, you kind of look like a dentist I know.
I just realized…. one of the reasons I feel better in the summer is that I can pretend I am on vacation.
Anyhow, obviously, the world needs images like the above to be reminded of how sick and perverted society has become due to modern progressive attitudes and how badly we need to return to simpler and more innocent times back when the world was wholesome and pure and clean.
Like in this Dennis the Menace panel.
Oh, you won't feel like napping for a while, Dennis.
You know, the good old days, when nobody had even heard of gay rights or crack cocaine or child sexual abuse, and nobody worried about crime in the streets, nobody ever had any domestic problems, and nobody believed children’s bizarre and perverted stories they made up about what certain kindly people did to them.
Truly, it was a golden age.
Seriously though, that is a genuine Dennis the Menace comic panel. I am very curious to know what the hell they were up to, because it looks like he’s just getting a swimming lesson, and since when does the kid have to be naked for that?
I find it hard to believe that people were ever so innocent that this raised no eyebrows at all. Why is Dennis naked, and why are there spectators for all this? How much did the swimming instructor charge said spectators for their chance to see Dennis naked?
Is it possible to launch a Child Welfare Services investigation into a comic book character? 🙂
Finally, there is this immortalization of the absolutely best thing Stephen Colbert has ever said.
And that’s saying something.
Nobody has ever summed up the case for the anti-Christ nature of right wing “”Christianity”” (double air quoted for emphases) so well. Colbert is a Catholic, and as ironic as this seems, Catholicism, for all its troubles, is the last major refuge for Christ’s message these days.
The Protestant churches hardly even pay lip service to loving your neighbour, caring for the poor, or not casting the first stone any more. In ridding themselves of all that Papist claptrap, the American Protestant churches, particularly the Southern Baptist branches, also conveniently shed all that pesky and gross and frankly totally gay stuff about caring, love, peace, compassion, mercy, charity, and humanity.
To me, the genuine contribution of Christ and Christianity to the world is humanism. Judaism before it was not humanist, in fact it was quite plainly tribal, provincial, and savage. Islam contains humanist elements, but in practice it lacks a single cohesive message or the kind of transcendental language that the Bible has in order to make its humanist message clearly central. So in practice, it operates more like a rulebook religion like Confucianism, rather than a single philosophy.
Ditto Judaism, and all its traditions and rules, for that matter.
I think the birth of Christianity, or something a lot like it, was necessary for the birth of humanism. And lately, it seems like Catholicism is the only major branch that still teaches it.
After them, there’s just the Mormons.
So bravo, Colbert. Those words should be nailed to the door of every church in the world.
“I am very curious to know what the hell they were up to, because it looks like he’s just getting a swimming lesson, and since when does the kid have to be naked for that?”
It’s the other way around. You should be asking, since when does a kid have to wear a swimsuit? Up until about 1970, boys swam naked unless in mixed company, or in view of the public (and sometimes even then). Girls, though, were expected to wear swimsuits. With the advance of woman’s liberation and gender equality, boys have had to conform to the same standards as girls, which means having to wear swimsuits in this case.
Something occurred to me while watching the most recent episode of The Daily Show. New York is expecting a lot of new business because of legalizing gay marriage, and I can just imagine a lot of conservatives saying that it’s a sign of decline in society for the government to legalize gay marriage just to make more money.
But that would mean sometimes morality is more important than capitalism!
Conservatives see Christianity as a brand, not a guide to life. They don’t really care what it says. The important thing is that it’s the old-fashioned value system and the largest group. If they ever actually thought about it and decided to become libertarian atheists, they’d be harder to argue against.
That’s definitely a sore point between the libertarian and the social conservative wings of the current American Conservatives. Social conservatives have no ideological barriers towards saying there should be limits on capitalism.
Then again, if you don’t think there should be some limits on capitalism, people can just say “So you would legalize kiddie porn?” 😛