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Megyn Kelly was discussing current issues with Adam Carolla recently. She was telling a story about a Broadway show her daughter went to. It was a reimagining of Romeo and Juliet and it apparently involved trans, queer, gay, etc. Well Megyn was taken aback because her daughter is still a minor. Shouldn't there be a warning or something so parents can decide if their child is ready to be exposed to these concepts? Neither Megyn nor Adam care personally what other people do, you see, but blah blah blah.
At this point I realized that this was familiar territory. We've gone down this path with many cultural issues. If there is nothing wrong with X yet Whitey Mannington objects to X, based on nothing more than disgust, outrage, discomfort, or outdated privileged thinking, then Whitey is just going to have to get his mind right.
In this case, if there is nothing wrong with men kissing other men (that's been settled for centuries), or if there is nothing wrong with men and women identifying as the opposite gender/sex/or some other made up thing, then there is no need for a parental warning or a need to shield the kids from it. In fact, if Becky McTradwife wants to shield her children from the casual assumption of these concepts, then it's she and her husband who are edging up to the child abuse line, via bigotry.
This part of the culture war is over, nothing left but cleaning up the holdouts and reorienting the defeated. Whitey and Becky will get over their discomfort, realize their privilege, or simply die off. In any event they will fail to make an academic, intellectual, philosophical, or political case just as they fail to teach their children The Truth in the face of relativism and nihilism. Absent an actual argument the new brood will just assume bigotry.
It's probably far too late now. The elites are already fully converted. Academia, white collar professionals, the media and politicians accept the change either because they're pod people now or out of cowardice and corruption. Could it have been any other way after our earlier surrenders and losses in the culture war? Are we just a zombie civilization now? Or can we turn this thing around? How?
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The play would have been really confusing in Elizabethan times when male actors played female characters.
Wait, which one is Juliet?
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Burn it. Burn it with fire.
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If it's worth doing it's not gonna be easy. But the answer is easy enough:
"Look unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God." - Heb. 12:2
Yes, there should be warnings. No, they won't offer them, because the point is to normalize the El-Jibbity (especially the T). And you're right -- should people ask for warnings, then they'll be called snowflakes and bigots.
But yes, there should be warnings. It's time that we stop normalizing the abnormal.
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Truth.
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