Reply #258: good to hear

[seabeyond]

truly, good to hear. i figured, too. but sometimes i like to make my own acknowledgment to a post someone takes the time to make, both circumstances, h2o and here, you.

"here are these horrible awful things that people have done to each other and because of it, how can you be so blase about the vibrator ads"?

"I'm not as flexible as I used to be, but, really, there is more than one."

i think this is the thing. it really is not about the vibrator per se, and i too have a wider position on all this that we dont share on du, with our one sentence comments. i had a poster the other day jump on a thread and because it had the word porn, expected, almost demanded i participate on the thread. i had no interest because it had nothing to do with the issues i have. it was truly just about freedom of speech (which is not my argument) and not a deeper issue. another poster calls out a newbie to me to demand i address his sexism. another poster that assumes he knows my agenda. but reality, just another poster that only knows the surface.

it isn't about a vibrator. it isn't about one ad. it is not about shielding our kids. it is bring trash, crude, vulgar as a norm for all of us to have to live. a society that encourages all of us to get in the gutter and wallow. the continual projecting of the least of who we are to be held up as an expectation. as one has the right to be a part of that world, we have moved into a position where as a society we are demanding we ALL be a part of that world.

and that, is just a mere iota of the whole to my issue with this. it is an octopus of many arms that reach out in many ways. so our little one liners really dont cut it in experiencing the whole of perspective

i will remember this with you. i doubt we will ever be in sync with this subject. we see it differently. cause and effect, differently.