tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3538186867576403896.post4345056304727277650..comments2023-11-02T02:31:45.015-05:00Comments on Banned And Dangerous Ministries!: This Has Nothing To Do With Anything...Mr. Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09579584580534433342noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3538186867576403896.post-70182011244792401502009-03-11T04:08:00.000-05:002009-03-11T04:08:00.000-05:00There's an incredible strain of prudery in America...There's an incredible strain of prudery in American culture overall. I saw it pretty clearly when my family traveled abroad in the company of my best friend (who was slated to adopt a girl from China the following year, so we wanted to make sure she knew the ins-and-outs of Customs, etc. before that trip) to the UK and Rome. <BR/><BR/>Visiting my SiL's home in Nottingham, her eldest - who is learning-disabled but a guy with a heart of gold, now engaged - had overindulged himself at the pub the previous night, and my SiL said to him, jovially, "Well, you'll know better the next time, won't you?" My friend was absolutely aghast and ashen that my SiL would take it so apparently casually and not throw the book at him.<BR/><BR/>I think of that kind of the same way that I think of John Ashcroft draping marble statues that had been perfectly acceptable representations of "Justice" until some guy with a fetish against the sculptural depiction of the human body was appointed.<BR/><BR/>It's not what you see or do, it's how you think of it.<BR/><BR/>And I'm with you, Count. WTF happened between the Flintstones and American Idol that changed our psyche so much for the Puritan?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com