World of Suck

There was an article recently about a new type of hospice being set up for terminally ill infants. While on the face of it, it seems like a noble cause, enabling parents and infants to spend time together in a less antiseptic setting for the short while they have, but there's actually a more sinister side.

It seems many of these infants were diagnosed in vitro as having terminal conditions... and the parents given the choice of terminating them decided instead to have their child, name it, enshrine it and make it suffer through a brief but agonizing life.

If you really loved someone would you cause them pain and agony knowing with clear certainty they would die? Especially someone who can't speak, can't understand? These parents who choose to have a terminally ill infant claim they want to cherish their brief time together, so as the baby is desperately trying to draw its breath they can grieve together as it dies.

Talk about fucked up.

Here's both barrels: the only reason these people are having terminally ill babies is a perverse Munchausen syndrome whereby they can draw the attention and sympathy through the tool of their child. That's it basically, "Look at me, poor me, my baby is dying and there's nothing I can do"... except of course perhaps make the sympathetic decision to prevent the child from suffering in the first place.

That's not love, it's narcissism.

There are groups of people out there. Many of them young people. They all have one desire. One common thread that binds them together and unifies them as a single culture.

The desire not to have sex. And to sit around and support each other through this trying time.

They're out there, oh yes. I tease them. But not for the reasons you might think. Nope. I don't mock them because I have a problem with their point of view. If that's what they want, that's cool. It's how they feel they must band together to stop the rest of the world from pressuring them.

First off, the reasoning of many of these people is flawed on a deep deep level. Take the Harvard group. They claim that they're pressured to have sex by the college itself. Because, freshman are required to attend a seminar about date rape. Look at the second word there. R-A-P-E. They also claim that the school safe sex program pushed them into doing the deed. Personally. I think both of those reasons are total fucking bullshit.

Date rape programs don't encourage sex, they help people identify rape you fucking idiots!!! And safe sex programs are exactly that. Programs that teach people to have sex safely if they choose to have sex. I know this will be a shock to you, but the MAJORITY of college students fuck like bunnies. 71% of them to be exact according to a recent study. When nearly 3/4 people are doing something, it's probably safe to say that the school has an interest in making sure they do it safely. It's not brain surgery. You people got into Harvard? Seriously? I should have applied.

Secondly, they say that they have to form groups because they are mocked. But, here's the good part... they don't really get mocked until they form the group. It also probably didn't help when they sent newsletters to the entire campus telling students they should wait "because they're worth it". Nothing pisses people off more than being told how to live their life, ya know? So yes... they're certainly mocking you now. Not because you're not having sex, but because you're fucking annoying. And because you've broadcast your particular grievance to the ENTIRE STUDENT BODY, yes... they're going to use that to piss you off / embarrass you.

Finally, this goes out to the 'technical virgins' and 'born again virgins'... you're not FUCKING VIRGINS. You can pretend all you fucking want, but at the end of the day, you've had sex. Maybe it wasn't in the 'proper' place... maybe it's been a while... but you got laid. I don't care if it was a moment of passion or a drunken orgy. You had sex. Don't try to act holier than thou as if it's some big deal that you're holding onto some psychotic mental barrier that you somehow are still a virgin. Your mental disorder has nothing to do with physical reality.

Don't want to have sex? Fine by me. Go for it. I respect your choice. I made that choice for a long time. I didn't need a group to get through it. Turns out, all it takes is the ability to stick up for yourself and say "No, I don't want to." If you need a group to help you resist the urge, that's fine too. But don't go out and tell me the world is pushing you into fucking your date. Your date may be, but the rest of the world doesn't give two shits about when or if you get laid.

Get over yourselves.

PS: Is it wrong that I considered ended this with "Probably wouldn't hurt to go get laid..."? I decided it was too hypocritical, even for me.