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Kids Aren't Made Of Glass
by Aaron Kendall
"Oh, man...I can't believe the fucking service here! Can you believe the fucking service? I swear, we must have ordered our food in the Dark Ages, 'cause I don't even remember when we fuckin' ordered the food! Jesus Christ!"
"Hey, can you not swear so audibly? I mean, there are people sitting nearby."
"So? I imagine that if they can perform the arduous task of dressing themselves and getting to this restaurant in one piece, then I imagine that they could probably handle my swearing."
"Well, yeah...okay, I wasn't going to mention it, but there are some kids over by that table. I mean, I care about kids, don't you?"
Ever had a conversation like this? And my answer to the
question is yes. Yeah, even I care about kids, too. No, I don't like watching kids getting mauled by bears. No, I don't like watching children become psychopaths after their parents raised them as complete wackos. But, I'm sick of hearing this bullshit from everybody about how ordinary behavior will somehow warp children.
And what are the two most attacked forms of expression?
That's right! Cursing and Pornography.
Now, if someone could just prove to me that sexual content and swearing leads to some sort of psychological mutation, I'd gladly stuff away my copies of Swank and knock off swearing when a kid wanders by. But, as a friend of mine pointed out, I think that all of us encountered sexual images and swearing at young ages, through either our peers or cable. I mean, how many of us didn't encounter both of them before the age of eight? Okay, all of you who lived in
a religious compound and who came from the 1950s...you're excused from the table. But how did all the rest of us react to sexual content at an early age? No, we didn't bleed from our ears. No, we didn't go into fuckin' seizures! We did the same thing that all children do when they first learn about sex...
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