- Not The Only One!
- Post #43
- Gratuitous Sex
- Greetings, and once again, I say welcome! I know that I’m going to get hate for this post, and that’s fine. I’m here to get readers, and hopefully have an intellectual exchange of ideas, some people call them followers, so be it. I’m just going to put out the PG warning, because I’m not sure where this post is going….sort of . I hope that you guys will read this in its entirety before expressing “Hatoraide ” and firing off angry emails and comments. I’ve been on the record on a few occasion as to me not being politically correct and some of that I’m sure will be on display. Ok, strap in and settle back. I remember back in the late seventies and early eighties when cable and HBO, first popped up on the scene and shortly followed by Cinemax and others. Prior to that, as hard as it may be for some of you to believe, TV use to sign off at night. They would play the National anthem and it would slow just fade to fuzz until they signed back on in the morning, definitely kinder and gentler days gone by. In its early days cable was considered a luxury item, because you could pick up broadcast signals with a good old pair of rabbit ears, and maybe with a little aluminum foil ☺️☺️. Oh, and there was no Fox, just the big three, ABC, NBC, & CBS. . I think early cable bills were around twenty bucks a month and look how far we have come, you almost have to decide between do you want to eat or be entertained☺️☺️. We will double back to the exorbitant cable bills in a bit, just hang tough!. Ok, since cable was outside of the consumption of public broadcasting, they could get around some of the decency laws. Ok here we go with the “Gratuitous Sex”. So there was and still is something known as T&A, I won’t make you have to go look that one up, it was for tits and ass. I was in my late teens or early twenties then, so when the before mentioned showed up, you just enjoyed it and if you had no life, you would be looking through that cable programming guide, to plan for a second look☺️☺️. It wasn’t long before we got the playboy channel and all sorts of freakish things under the banner of cable TV”. They very rarely showed any male full frontal nudity, because most men back in the day, didn’t want to see that or be made to feel ashamed if they weren’t packing as much. ☺️☺️. It’s no secret that men are visual creatures, and for the most part out earned their female counterparts, so they were playing to the demographics and the ones who controlled the purse strings, not always, but for the most part. If you are unfamiliar with what gratuitous sex is, look it up,, but for the most part it just a sexual scene thrown in , when it didn’t need to be and for the most part adds nothing to very little to the film. I think sometimes Hollywood thinks that nudity is equivalent to a work of art, and it’s not so much!! I’m older, but not dead and decrepit, but after a while you realize that they are just a pair of boobs, and if you’ve seen a few pair, you realize for the most part they are just boobs, they are like people, they come in different sizes and shapes and various colors, but at the end of day, still just boobies ,and if you have a pair that you are fond of or significantly attached to, that’s great for you. Ok, so let’s get to the crust of it. I don’t know if your life is somewhat framed by movies and music, but mine is, and has been. I have a greater love for music than movies, because very few of them age well, and it can be all so subjective. A quick example of this is most movies from the early eighties, I was thinking about “War Games” and ” No way Out”, both really good movies at the time, one with Mathew Broderick and the other with a very hot and young Kevin Costner, yes I said he was hot, because he was and many think still, but I’m secure in who I am and comfortable in my own skin, and sometimes you just have to give credit, where credit is due, those Navy dress whites☺️☺️. Ok, one more quick one before moving on. All things considered I felt as if the “10 commandments “, with Charleston Heston held up well ,even though it was made in the late 50s. The main distinction may be it didn’t have technology in it that you could clearly see had aged, and is probably in the Smithsonian by now☺️☺️. Ok, so here we go , before I take a left turn on you. There was a movie, I believe also from the eighties, called “A League of There Own”. The cast was headed up by Tom Hanks, Madonna, Gena Davis and Rosie O’Donnell. The movie was based on a real life event that took place during WWII, or as some of the old timers would like to say the “Great War “!!. It was a pretty good film and if it was lacking anything, it was made up by the performances . Ok, a little weird sidebar about myself, so why I pay for cable, I very rarely watch TV and for the most part only watch, while I’m riding my stationary bike, and I usually select something from Amazon prime to watch, I probably should reevaluate that cable bill situation ☺️☺️☺️. Anyhow, when I heard, or more correctly saw the previews that Amazon had made a league of their own into a series, I thought to myself , great I want to check it out and see how they had updated it . Ok, so before I become Debbie Downer, I want to give them props on how they handle race, back in the 1940s, I thought that they did a good job and very realistic in their approach to racism and segregation, whereas I believed that the original film just completely ignored the racial tension for the most part. Ok, so remember the name of this post, in the first two episodes, smack dab out of no where, bam the gay stuff. Why, do they feel they have to cram this down our throats to try and get us to think that it is normal behavior. We can’t get away from it, it’s every where, and by all accounts it’s only 5 to 6 percent of our population, but based on the vast saturation of the media, you would think that it’s at least 50 percent, but a far cry from it. This is classic “tale wag the dog”. Some of you may be unaware of this, but a very few people control just about all of the news media in this country, at least what we would consider main stream media, yes shocking, but true . If you are really wanting to know what is going on in this country, go to the BBC, the British press, or even a lot of the Arab news sources do a great job. The same is true in Hollywood, it’s a very small and by all means affluent group of individuals who choose what you get to see and hear on the big screen as well as the small ones. I’m not a bigot , nor am I homophobic. I have nothing against gay individuals and I have gay family members, I work with them, and I’m sure that there are some in our church congregation as well. Its like they have an agenda and it just has to be represented every where. We know that two men can’t reproduce, neither can two women, so it’s like a recruitment tool to get the next generation of confused individuals. I don’t say that with disrespect or in a flipped way. I have seen it first hand. The lady that I date a ways back had a teenage daughter who was confused by all of the different messages, she received from school, media and various exterior sources. When she tried to date another teen lesbian, the girl told her that she was straight and not to bother with trying to enter the exclusive club. All along she was attracted to boys, but thought maybe I will give this a try. We live in this society where anything goes and we dare not challenge anyone on what they believe and why that is. It’s a scary thing not to have a compass. This is a very powerful lobbyist group ,and like many such bully groups are use to getting their way. There primary and weapon of choice is litigation. They have all of the main corporations on board, the government entities, and if by chance you are a small business owner who refuses to make a cake for one of their weddings, they will just sue you out of existence. Most corporations just Capitulate, because they just don’t have the patience for getting tied up in courts for years, with the possibility of some crazy jury awarding all of their profits away, it’s just not worth all of the hassle. They are not alone here, much is true of this with race, age, sex, religion, to the point where much of it is shear lunacy . I really don’t want to step off on to these other platforms but let’s stick to the topic at hand. However, lets just say that I can’t help myself☺️☺️☺️. At my last job, I would see the corporate environment bringing unqualified candidates in ,just to cover their asses, because as far as the EEOC, was concerned you were guilty until proven otherwise. So to cover themselves they had to have so many women, so many minorities, and so many disabled to just to not to appear to be doing anything under the table or unfair . This too is really shameful, because jobs wouldn’t always go to the best qualified candidates, because they have to protect themselves against litigation, and all the while doing it at the expense of their business and customer base. There was a time when we needed unions and affirmative action, but that time has passed. If you don’t see that or recognize it, then you are signing on for reverse discrimination . I don’t understand why we have to celebrate someone’s sexual preference or gender choices. It’s not front page news, every time someone decides that they are straight, because if we did ,it would be a non stop celebration that would so over shadow the LGBT community, that they would be non existent and still only a very small segment of the population ,which they are . Personally, I really don’t care what their sexual preference are and what they do behind closed doors, after all, I’m not standing on the corner with a megaphone in my hand broadcasting what I do behind closed doors and demanding that people celebrate that ,and that I should some how deserve a trophy for my personal choices in my life. My perspective is this is the classic want my cake and eat it too. We go out of our way preaching diversity and inclusion and at the same time doing every Stinkin stupid thing that we can to separate ourselves. We just can’t wrap our minds around all of this special recognition for this group or that group, puts up walls and causes isolation for people who aren’t a part of that particular group of people, be it based on sex, race, religion, age, or whatever. We have to many set apart groups and it goes right down to all of these hyphenated Americans, be it Italian- American, African-Americans, Polish- Americans, and there just seems to be no end to the list, if you are an American, then be an American. People will tell you quickly that they don’t like labels, no I don’t want to be a Baptist, for one example, then they rush right out to be a part of some identifiable people group. So, what they are really saying is, I don’t want to be labeled unless it’s one of my own choosing. ☺️☺️☺️, just perfect!!. Since I’m out here on a limb all by my lonesome, just hang with me for a second, before someone cuts me down. ☺️☺️ And yes, I’m going to make some more of you really mad. We just recently got a new Federal Holiday, hope that doesn’t come to any great surprise to some of you. So, once again we single out a certain portion of the population and set them up as special and deserving of a national holiday, but what about the rest of the population, are they not deserving in our all inclusion society? Yes ,they get paid for the holiday and time off, but they are not the fundamental reason for the holiday, which leads to more division, and yes its a holiday celebrating basically skin color, when they tell us that we should be overlooking that. How far we are from Dr. King’s vision of us being recognized by the content of our character. Yes, character still matters, but it seems to be less and less in supply, especially in our culture of people not being able to own there own junk. Personal responsibility is rare as big foot sighting ☺️☺️☺️. Pretty soon there will be no unused time on our calendars, because we insist on all these special recognitions for special groups of people. So we have black history month, gay pride month, Hispanic recognition, and if you aren’t a part of one of these very special groups, you should definitely be thinking about forming a group and getting your bid in to be recognized in our all inclusion society….absolutely lunacy!! I would much rather see them make Super Bowl Monday a federal holiday, because whether you are a sports fan or not, it covers all of these special interests groups, without shunning those that are not a part of it. Ok, I’m a bit long as usual, and I know that I have been around the moon and back, but let’s see if we can get back on topic and bring this train into the station. Ok,, A League of There Own ,I don’t know if it was good or not because I just couldn’t stomach the over kill of gay pride in over drive. It would be one thing if they were actually taking pages from someone’s true life ,like in the movie” Rocket Man”, which was based on Elton John’s life, but no they are just taking liberties, indecent ones at that ,to try and make us think that it is pervasive throughout all of life everywhere, when it’s not. I don’t blame some of these up in coming young actors, they are trying to make a name for themselves and get established in what is a very difficult business. We saw many of them giving push back about having to be vaccinated to do projects during the pandemic and just said, no thank you, but we don’t see the same moral fortitude when it comes to taking these roles , in the continuous of pushing this agenda forward. I will note that these are people who are trying to be up and coming, the ones who are well established have more options about the kinds of roles that they except. Ok, I have nothing against gays, be it male, female, or some other crazy new designation, I’m just tiered of it being constantly in my face. If I worked in an office, and there were known swingers at work and they gathered around the water cooler talking about their exploits from the weekend, I don’t want to hear about that either , again what you do in your private life is your business and we don’t need to celebrate that. We have been very sensitized to sexual harassment in the work place, but somehow have been completely in denial about of this gay agenda stuff making work environments hostile places for those who are not. Ok, believe it or not, I don’t have personal enemies and would like to keep it that way, but I’m really serious about us needing to think through all of this division and divisiveness in our culture, when we are setting up walls instead of tearing them down and coming together. We are all on the same planet, breathing the same air and enjoying the same sunshine. As Dr. King also said, you can’t over come hatred with more hate, only love can conquer that. Ok, I told you that I would double back to those ever climbing cable bills. They tell us that the bills go up because the producers of the content are demanding more for content , but if the content is what was represented in a league of their own, I just want to respectfully say no thank you, because it is not worth it to me, can’t speak for others, but I’m sure I’m not alone here. One final quick note before signing off, if you have kids and worry about their exposure to everything is OK, and the indoctrination of a culture gone sideways, there are other options out there, such as pure flicks and other independent none mainstream film makers, such as the Kendrick Brothers out of Georgia, who have been incredibly successful making movies without all of the gratuitous fillers. Again, nothing against gay individuals , just not sure why I need to celebrate you and your choices.
- Till next time ✌️ peace.
- Sandy The Southerner
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