Dec 8th Veritas Video

[Rev. Rye]

One thing that I keep hearing from the right about sex education is that it’s a subject that should be left to the family. That if any adult is talking to their children about sex, it’s only because they have bad intent. I suspect that for many right-wing Christians (I’m not sure if Dio is one of those or not), it seems like the ideal would be that they only get sex ed shortly before their wedding night. And now, for a video related to how a famous nonce within far-right Christianity got the talk that in no way demonstrates how fucked up an idea this is:




And apart from being fucked up if you think about the implications for more than a few seconds, it’s absurdly unrealistic to expect this in an era where anyone can just type a few keywords into sites like Imagefap or Pornhub and find out that there’s a stupefying variety to sex. And the videos or photo sets they might find might elide certain details that make the practices depicted safe. If we take what was said in the video at face value (and we’ve established that Project Veritas is one of those sources where, if they say the sky is blue, you get a second opinion), the fact that they mention using spit vs. proper lube suggests that they’re focusing less on grooming or recruiting and more on how to do it safely if your interest has been piqued about that sort of thing.

But the rather frustrating thing about this mindset (and I know this from being raised into a particularly conservative branch of Protestantism) is that when it turns out that their firmly held views aren’t workable, their reactions don’t seem to be to adapt to the world around them. Their reactions seem to be A) Do the same thing they’ve been doing, but harder, and B) get rid of as many potential safety nets as possible for those who stray from their preferred track.

Unhide for a tangent that may or may not be interesting:

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After being exposed to Ken Burns’ series about Country music (specifically, the tie-in book), I recently listened to Merle Haggard’s “Okie from Muskogee” and one particular line stuck out to me:



The first line of the first verse: “We don’t smoke marijuana in Muskogee.”
The last line of the chorus: “White Lightning’s still the biggest thrill of all.”

If you’re not up to your redneck slang, “white lightning” is moonshine; alcohol that’s brewed illegally, often by people who barely know what they’re doing, and usually done in an environment of less-than ideal cleanliness, with all the problems that come from drinking professionally made booze, only worse, because, if made properly, it’s just a few notches above being totally undrinkable, and if not, is legitimately poisonous. And, evidently, according to this anthem if the 60s counter-counter-culture, this is vastly preferable to these self-proclaimed squares to the comparatively safe Marijuana.

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