Some thoughts on 'legimitate rape' and Chick-Fil-A

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I'm sure most of you, as well as the rest of the US have heard about that ridiculous comment about how it's impossible for rape victims to get pregnant. Which is of course BS, in fact some studies suggest rape victims are MORE likely to get pregnant than girls who willingly have sex.

The whole debacle got me thinking though. People in general, at least Americans seem really irrational about how to deal with sexual issues in general. On one hand we have people saying insulting crap like women can't get pregnant from rape when it's fact thousands do every year, on the other hand we have people who are borderline-eugenicist in their zeal for abortion saying that an abortion will make rape victims feel better and is the best choice if they end up pregnant, ignoring the fact that many women consider killing their own baby (okay fine, fetus) more traumatic than rape.

The fact is our fanatical culture here in the United States makes lies about sensitive subjects propagate because even if they are known for a fact not to be true, they're still the 'politically correct' truth people want to hear. The flip-side lie is that rape is not a 'sexual crime' but a 'violent crime' (when in reality it's both), something that feminists like to say which is actually in a certain sense connected to the Christian Conservative lie about rape pregnancies being impossible when you think about it, because both are down-playing the fact that rape is a sexual crime as well as a violent crime and that if we really want to prevent rape we can't be intellectually dishonest about that fact just because we have Puritan ideas about honour.

And secondly, there's the Chic-Fil-A thing. How f***ing stupid is that? Do I really live in such a stupid country, where people eat fatty fried chicken and waffle sticks to make a statement on how much they hate gay people? Honestly I could care less about what the owner of Chic-Fil-A thinks about gay marriage. They don't even have the restaurants in my state, I've never even been to one before.

It seems like about the gay rights issues, just like the abortion issue, it's incredibly polarized. Basically one camp thinks if you are uncomfortable with gay marriage (which I'm not BTW) it means you hate gay people and want them to die, and another believes that we basically should strip gays of their human rights and dignity.

Is this country just becoming absolutely insane?

The second you deny rights to a group of people, you stop deserving the benefit of doubt.

Marriage is not a constitutional right in America btw.

I support giving gays the same legal rights as straights. There is no issue there. I would never dream of forcing a church to marry a gay couple anymore than I would deny them the same rights as straights.

I believe people have a right to feel how they want about gays. They don't have a right to discriminate against them though.

As for legit rape guy, even the Republican party has disowned that guy. He's a nut.

Chic-Fil-A is creepy. They light them up with an obscene amount of lights at christmas and combining fast food and religion is just bizarre. Even driving past the place I get a scientology vibe.

Do they have happy meals with miniature bibles? Or do you get a free e-meter reading?

I've never been there.
I guess I need to start.

I hate how many lies people create in order to deal with sensitive topics, but repression is a psychological defense mechanism so it'll probably never go away. The truth is that suffering, chaos, corruption, and unfairness are natural and they will always exist to some extent. I don't like how common these things are in today's world, but there's nothing that I or any other individual can do to eliminate them. Maybe someday a collective action will nullify some of these things, but they will never completely disappear. People can't work to nullify these these things unless they acknowledge them. People who repress these things and spread false, sensitized views are contributing to preventing this from happening.

I don't see why any married people should get tax benefits that single people don't. Single people need money too. They have to pay for their housing and other bills by themselves without being able to share that responsibility with a spouse. Why should monetary benefits be a sedative to get married? Marriage should be more about emotional connection rather than monetary and legal benefits.

I don't see why people care so much about gay people getting married. They're not hurting anyone and it doesn't really effect my life at all, so I don't really care. I think people mostly just want to feel morally vindicated by the government. I don't care about this because I see the government as being immoral and corrupt, and I don't need them to vindicate my morals.