I just feel like if I'm trying to get to know a person better (not necessarily intimately) then I don't need their parents breathing down my neck past 18. Worse still if it were me personally, there'd be arguments and sarcasm if not shouting matches, especially if I was committed to sticking around and the parents refused to believe it.

But then your answer to that would probably be 'then be her friend for like 10 years dumbass'.

Something about the whole idea still strikes me as right-wing lifestyle domination to me. I think it's because the article doesn't ever point out the fact that something like this can't work for everyone. By saying 'shouldn't we shoot high and miss as parents than not try at all' seems to imply to me, 'try this or you're a dysfunctional fucktard family' without allowing for the fact that there is a middle path.

Too many times moderation gets mistaken for indecision and this is just one example of a social pendulum. The goals are noble, the means have an insidiuous corrupting influence of sorts, it's just more subtle than casual sex, binge drinking, heroin and abortions.

The other thing the article DOES point out is that sometimes making something 'taboo' just turns it into 'forbidden fruit'. Some people work through that line of thinking with experience, others never do.



Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 07/21/2008 03:58PM by Scrimbul.