Posted on 10/08/2014 8:01:55 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
I have a slightly different take on California’s recent decision to regulate college sex. Don’t get me wrong: I think it’s beyond idiotic, unworkable, even borderline Orwellian. We’ll get to all that.
But I also think it’s incredibly useful. You see, for years I’ve been railing and ranting about the ridiculous myth that liberalism is socially libertarian; that liberals are “live and let live” types simply defending themselves against judgmental conservatives, the real aggressors in the culture war.
That thinking runs counter to most everything liberals justifiably take pride in as liberals. You can’t be “agents for change,” “forces for progress,” or whatever the current phrase is, and simultaneously deny that you’re the aggressors in the culture war. For instance, just in the last decade, liberals have redefined a millennia-old understanding of marriage while talking as if it were conservatives who wanted to “impose” their values on the nation.
Most libertarians are surely against racial discrimination, sexism, poor eating habits, homophobia, and so on. But their proposed remedies don’t look anything like a liberal’s. Libertarians, for the most part, do not favor racial or gender quotas. They’re against banning big sodas, campus speech codes, or forcing elderly nuns to pay for birth-control coverage, among other things.
Liberals, meanwhile, are quite open about their desire to use the state to impose their morality on others. Many conservatives want to do likewise, of course. The difference is that when conservatives try to do it, liberals are quick to charge “theocracy!” and decry the Orwellian horror.
Enter California governor Jerry Brown, whose answer to the alleged “rape epidemic” on campuses was to sign the new “affirmative consent” law. It will require a verbal “yes” at every stage of amorous activity on college campuses.
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Today’s “liberals” are aspiring totalitarians.
When it comes to homosexuality and abortion it’s keep the government out of the bedroom. Now they want to impose the PC bedroom police staffed by militant lesbian feminists!
“All male on female sex is rape! We must find a way to neuter men using the legal system to stop the abuse!”
In a sense, it WILL help stupid people stop procreating.
“It will require a verbal “yes” at every stage of amorous activity on college campuses”
EVERY stage, hey? OK, it’s just SO tempting to come up with many different variations of lists of “stages”, now isn’t it? So, I’m going to post a basic set of “stages” and hypothetical dialog to go with, but I really hope others will contribute!
Guy: Honey, is it OK to go to first base?
Gal: Yes.
Guy: Honey, is it OK to go to second base?
Gal: Yes.
Guy: Honey, is it OK to go to third base?
Gal: Yes.
Gal: UH, I THINK YOU JUST HIT A HOME RUN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Guy: Uh, I hope that was OK because it happened so fast I didn’t have time to ask permission.
Gal: SIGH.
OMG! FEMINISTS WITH STRAIGHT RAZORS on the march!
Today’s “liberals” in America have aspired to becoming totalitarian LEFTISTS on the way to becoming Marxist..
Remember when the left used to scream “keep the government out of our bedroom”? Now that they are in control they are everywhere. Bedroom, bathroom, kitchen, refrigerator, even on the phone with you. I can’t think of a place that they don’t want to control.
“Liberalism” is just a pretext to get unpopular/outrageous positions tolerated enough to take sociopolitical control - at which point the “liberal” premise is discarded and the dictatorial takes over.
If I was still in college I would corner the market on “Just say yes” buttons.
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Everybody make love the Jerry Brown way!
With a lawyer at each elbow!
No romance necessary!
Easy cleanup!
It’s mutually consensual legally sanctioned FUN!
Ironic these same liberals said Judge Bork wanted government intrusion into our bedrooms.
Blame the conservatives for not getting the point over that ‘Liberals’ want to FORCE people to conform to the Lefty Way Of Life. The Right needs to step up their game and use emotive words to describe the Totalitarian impulses of The Left.
Liberals don’t really oppose “gov’t imposing morality”, they just want it to be THEIR morality that is imposed.
Even better would be an updated DIGITAL version of the “Yes!” button, say a button that announced “yes” every time is was pressed. It should solve the problem if strategically placed so automatic pressing would occur.
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