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Warning: Ramble Ahead (may make your head spin)
So after reading Dan's article about how to be a closeted conservative while attending institutions of higher learning, I totally outed myself in class today. What can I say? I'm opinionated and even though I know most people here won't agree with me, I'm still I'm pretty sure I'm right and they're all just wrong. Anyway, I outed myself (not that it was exactly a secret before, but I think everyone knows for sure now that I land squarely on the right side of the political spectrum). And then I almost got into it with one of my classmates because I said something about terrorists being a-holes and he hit me with the "But you guys created them"-line. As though that makes it okay for them to murder 3,000 innocent people for going to work that morning in September. Heaven forbid people be, you know, productive! I was about to launch into a whole speech about how we all control our own destiny and although there is a point at which one should look back and assign blame, in the present the only person one can change is themselves, and besides are you saying we deserved 9-11...but I saw the professor looking at me, so I managed to swallow what I was about to say before I got really into it and started getting too excited and talking loud enough for the whole class to hear. I have a feeling the language difference would add a whole new dimension to any heated political argument. Did you say what I thought you just said? would no longer just be a sarcastic retort, it would actually be a legitimate question. Hm. Could be frustrating. Even more frustrating than the usual argument with a brick-wall/American-liberal. Which brings me to something that is currently annoying me. This stupid rule banning tag at some schools. Because the kids might get hurt! Think of the children! I mean, nobody likes it when kids get hurt, but for goodness sake, it's a part of life! Why not just ban recess altogether? Because what if the kids have fun being able to play like children or something? This is what bugs me about liberals, they think of the world "as it should be" and not how it is. In the real world there are winners and losers and crappy things happen sometimes. Yeah it kinda sucks. Yeah it would be nice if we could protect our children all the time and make sure that nothing bad ever happens to them, but you know what? Not possible. It reminds me of another story I heard on the radio maybe about a year ago that talked about how one school banned teachers from grading tests in red pen. Because red is too "harsh." They told them to grade in purple. I guess because purple is gentle and not "harsh?" Um...yeah. I was a kid once, not so long ago actually. I remember falling down, skinning my knees, elbows, palms. Getting splinters from playing in the tanbark. Blisters from the monkey bars. I got smacked in the face by an errant basketball once and my toes bled from my pointe shoes when I was in ballet class. I went skiing and fell over quite a few times. Same thing ice-skating. And I fell many, many times waterskiing. I got a bruised bottom from riding on the back of my cousin's wave runner, chasing yacht waves. Sometimes we would hit the waves so hard I'd go flying away into the water. But I lived. And I had an awesome childhood. Sure I fell down and hurt myself and it wasn't so fun, but I don't mind because of all the fun I did have. I'm not saying children shouldn't be protected. Children should be protected from child molestors and drugs and Paris Hilton and all kinds of other dangerous things. But tag? Red pens? Those are the kinds of things kids are going to have to face no matter how much we want to protect them. We can't protect them from knowing the feeling of failure once in awhile. And we shouldn't want to protect them from it because without ever having that bitter taste of defeat in their mouths, what will inspire them to never feel that way again? Liberals are trying to raise this whole generation of soft, pussy-ass children (pardon my French) and it's really quite disturbing. I know I'm going a little off on a tangent here but I think this is a clear example of how liberals are feminizing education. How are you gonna tell a bunch of 7-year old balls of energy, also known as little boys, that they can't chase each other around during recess? I mean geez, pretty soon the only recess-approved activity will be to sit around and braid each other's hair. Monkey bars? Tether-ball? Hopscotch? BUT THE CHILDREN MIGHT *GASP* FALL DOWN/TRIP/GET SMACKED IN THE FACE! Anyway, back to kind of the subject at hand. I don't understand why these are the things liberals feel they must rush to defend children from. From feeling "bad" about themselves. From skinned knees. And yet, my mom has clients who's parents are cracked out drug addicts and the state is freaking desperate to reunite them with their children. Gah. I. Just. Don't. Get. It. At. All. I don't remember where I was going with all of this. Bottom line: Playing tag is a part of childhood, just like falling down, skinning your knees and the occassional test marked up in red pen. Deal. I get how women can be liberal because women are all about feelings and emotions and making the booboos better, but liberal men? What the hell? Dad's are the ones that tell you to suck it up and do better next time. They're the ones that are supposed to believe you learn from your failures. I think it was the comedian Carlos Mencia who told the story of how when he was little he used to try to touch the stove and his mom would constantly tell him no because it was hot and then one day his mom wasn't home and the same thing happened with his dad and when he asked his dad what "hot" was his dad let him find out. And then he never wanted to or tried to touch the stove again. Gay men being liberal? I get. Women being liberal? I get. But supposedly straight men? I don't know. It's gotta be an act or else they were castrated at some point in their life right? American liberals just rely way too much on emotions and feelings, which real men aren't supposed to do. Not that real men can't have emotions and feelings but they are not supposed to throw all logic, reason, and practicality out the window. I'm going to stop now because I'm going off on all kinds of wild tangents and this post is simply not very cohesive and yeah. Done.
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