"She gave us so we'd have, but we went and took some more. Can't seem to keep her legs shut: Mother Nature is a whore." - Trent Reznor
So, I've been thinking about the 15-year-old Staten Island girl who killed herself two days ago over being "slut-shamed" by the four High School footballers who she had allowed to run a train on her (no pun intended) at a party the weekend before. I'm not going to defend the guys who shamelessly taunted her but, at the same time, I do feel as if the politically-correct populous in which we live in are forgetting the role that the girl played in her own situation here. This tragedy is bigger than any of the teenagers involved and more over, this tragedy is a microcosm of the grander picture of who we are as a society in 2012. That's what I want to talk about here.
Now, this is the story that the newspapers have reported: Constant runaway Felicia Garcia, 15, leaped in front of a train after being verbally taunted by the four High School football players who she'd previously had sex with, all in one night, at a party the previous weekend. Moments before her death, she handed her friend her cell phone and rejoiced as the oncoming train approached the station. "Finally. It's here," she said, before falling backwards in front of the speeding steel behemoth which took her life.
Call me heartless, call me cold, but if I were to hypothetically get drunk five times a day, I'd be an alcoholic. If I were to smoke crack, I'd be a crackhead. If I killed a person, I'd be a murderer. If I slept with four people in one night, I'd be promiscuous. And so was she, by her own volition. The only difference here is that I recognize the ramifications of my hypothetical actions whereas she didn't. Some may say that I'm blaming the victim in this case but, come on, this isn't the same as someone spying on a gay man with a hidden camera in his own, personal, quarters and then subsequently posting his private activities on the internet for the entire world to see, which happened last year at Rutgers University. That's just plain wrong. No, this is a case of irresponsibility and the effects of it.
America, in 2012, has a complex: We've lost our sense of accountability. Once upon a time, we used a group of rebels to destroy our opposition in the most violent part of the world and then left them to fend for themselves without an infastructure when they were no longer of any use to us and decades later, we were naively astonished when our tallest monuments were decimated, taking along with them thousands of innocent souls, in a terrible act of terror perpetrated by those very same people who we used and abandoned; We allowed a maniac to become our President twelve years ago and he destroyed us in every way possible, yet we don't want to place the blame on the political ideology that allowed all of that to happen in the first place. We even reward that very old-minded ideology by allowing it to contend for the very same high office that it used to harm us to begin with.
This country has taught the past few generations (and counting) that we should feel entitled to a zero-sum expectation of free will and it's come at the detriment of the mentality of those who grew up in this culture where that way of thinking has been held up as a righteous and invincible one. It was that mentality of contradictory expectations that drove Felicia Garcia to her irrevocable and untimely death. Yes, she was a victim of bullying, but she was also a victim of entitlement, naivety, and irresponsibility on her own part.
Y'know, I've come across plenty of women in my time - not sexually, per se - but "hopefully romantic," I guess you could say, and it never ceases to amaze me how women in this country claim to want equal rights but not equal consequences. In every facet of modern American life, I can honestly say that that is my one major beef with feminism: The contradiction of it's own message. Feminists like the opportunistic Gloria Allred have forged a dangerous mindset in this country where women feel that they can do whatever they want to do and not be held accountable for it when their actions are negative - especially in the same ways that men would be held accountable for their questionable ethics and actions in those very same situations.
This hypocrisy is the same reason why so many (usually) female teachers are never convicted as pedophiles - the way that a men are always convicted in that situation - when they sleep with their young students or why Shi'dea Lane was able to play the victim card after Cleveland bus driver Artis Hughes delivered an uppercut to her after she spat on him and smacked him in the face while he was driving an occupied bus in the first place. He was not the instigator of the situation, yet he's the one who lost his job for defending himself and the well-being of his passengers. Had the roles been reversed, I guarantee you that it would have been the male instigator who was brought up on charges while the female driver would've been the one who was applauded. Now, that is NOT fair or equal treatment, yet this society deems one scenario more acceptable than the other.
Equality, by definition, means that both parties have the same amount of rights, opportunities, and privileges, not where one entity is treated more delicately than the other one is because of traditional conservative perceptions held by the programmed masses. Equal rights should come with equal left hooks and that's the bottom line. While I wholeheartedley support true equal rights for women, I absolutely do not support the hypocritical feminist movement that has embraced radical superior treatment over men for the past fifty years while deceiving people into thinking that it supports equality instead.
As I've grown, I've come to realize a disturbing and offensive trend in women where they routinely choose rotten men over honorable ones and then cry about the ramifications of those choices brought on by their own irresponsiblity. Felicia Garcia seems, to me, to be a prime - if not, epitomizing - example of that type of entitled girl of the twenty-first century. Be that as it may, she didn't deserve to be taunted the way she was by the boys she slept with, no matter how irresponsible or reckless she was in her judgments. Even so, the American tragedy of arrogance, entitlement, and contradiction continues for yet another generation....
So, I've been thinking about the 15-year-old Staten Island girl who killed herself two days ago over being "slut-shamed" by the four High School footballers who she had allowed to run a train on her (no pun intended) at a party the weekend before. I'm not going to defend the guys who shamelessly taunted her but, at the same time, I do feel as if the politically-correct populous in which we live in are forgetting the role that the girl played in her own situation here. This tragedy is bigger than any of the teenagers involved and more over, this tragedy is a microcosm of the grander picture of who we are as a society in 2012. That's what I want to talk about here.
Now, this is the story that the newspapers have reported: Constant runaway Felicia Garcia, 15, leaped in front of a train after being verbally taunted by the four High School football players who she'd previously had sex with, all in one night, at a party the previous weekend. Moments before her death, she handed her friend her cell phone and rejoiced as the oncoming train approached the station. "Finally. It's here," she said, before falling backwards in front of the speeding steel behemoth which took her life.
Call me heartless, call me cold, but if I were to hypothetically get drunk five times a day, I'd be an alcoholic. If I were to smoke crack, I'd be a crackhead. If I killed a person, I'd be a murderer. If I slept with four people in one night, I'd be promiscuous. And so was she, by her own volition. The only difference here is that I recognize the ramifications of my hypothetical actions whereas she didn't. Some may say that I'm blaming the victim in this case but, come on, this isn't the same as someone spying on a gay man with a hidden camera in his own, personal, quarters and then subsequently posting his private activities on the internet for the entire world to see, which happened last year at Rutgers University. That's just plain wrong. No, this is a case of irresponsibility and the effects of it.
America, in 2012, has a complex: We've lost our sense of accountability. Once upon a time, we used a group of rebels to destroy our opposition in the most violent part of the world and then left them to fend for themselves without an infastructure when they were no longer of any use to us and decades later, we were naively astonished when our tallest monuments were decimated, taking along with them thousands of innocent souls, in a terrible act of terror perpetrated by those very same people who we used and abandoned; We allowed a maniac to become our President twelve years ago and he destroyed us in every way possible, yet we don't want to place the blame on the political ideology that allowed all of that to happen in the first place. We even reward that very old-minded ideology by allowing it to contend for the very same high office that it used to harm us to begin with.
This country has taught the past few generations (and counting) that we should feel entitled to a zero-sum expectation of free will and it's come at the detriment of the mentality of those who grew up in this culture where that way of thinking has been held up as a righteous and invincible one. It was that mentality of contradictory expectations that drove Felicia Garcia to her irrevocable and untimely death. Yes, she was a victim of bullying, but she was also a victim of entitlement, naivety, and irresponsibility on her own part.
Y'know, I've come across plenty of women in my time - not sexually, per se - but "hopefully romantic," I guess you could say, and it never ceases to amaze me how women in this country claim to want equal rights but not equal consequences. In every facet of modern American life, I can honestly say that that is my one major beef with feminism: The contradiction of it's own message. Feminists like the opportunistic Gloria Allred have forged a dangerous mindset in this country where women feel that they can do whatever they want to do and not be held accountable for it when their actions are negative - especially in the same ways that men would be held accountable for their questionable ethics and actions in those very same situations.
This hypocrisy is the same reason why so many (usually) female teachers are never convicted as pedophiles - the way that a men are always convicted in that situation - when they sleep with their young students or why Shi'dea Lane was able to play the victim card after Cleveland bus driver Artis Hughes delivered an uppercut to her after she spat on him and smacked him in the face while he was driving an occupied bus in the first place. He was not the instigator of the situation, yet he's the one who lost his job for defending himself and the well-being of his passengers. Had the roles been reversed, I guarantee you that it would have been the male instigator who was brought up on charges while the female driver would've been the one who was applauded. Now, that is NOT fair or equal treatment, yet this society deems one scenario more acceptable than the other.
Equality, by definition, means that both parties have the same amount of rights, opportunities, and privileges, not where one entity is treated more delicately than the other one is because of traditional conservative perceptions held by the programmed masses. Equal rights should come with equal left hooks and that's the bottom line. While I wholeheartedley support true equal rights for women, I absolutely do not support the hypocritical feminist movement that has embraced radical superior treatment over men for the past fifty years while deceiving people into thinking that it supports equality instead.
As I've grown, I've come to realize a disturbing and offensive trend in women where they routinely choose rotten men over honorable ones and then cry about the ramifications of those choices brought on by their own irresponsiblity. Felicia Garcia seems, to me, to be a prime - if not, epitomizing - example of that type of entitled girl of the twenty-first century. Be that as it may, she didn't deserve to be taunted the way she was by the boys she slept with, no matter how irresponsible or reckless she was in her judgments. Even so, the American tragedy of arrogance, entitlement, and contradiction continues for yet another generation....
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