 | Current mood:  nauseated Category: Life I must be the luckiest girl in the world. I just got an email that said there are thousands of single girls in my area who are just waiting for me to contact them… YUK! Gosh, I don't think we have enough trash in the world. I think we need more. I know I could use more pornographic emails and pop-ups every time I get online. It would be great if I could just be accosted a few more times a day by people I don't know offering me things and services I don't want to know about. Did someone send out some kind of "sign her up" note so that people would send me weird invitations to participate in weird things? If someone did do something like that I'd like to know why. When did I hire you to "help me out"? When did I become desperate? When did I become a lesbian? Obviously I'm dropping some serious sarcasm here. I don't really consider myself to be lucky for receiving trashy emails, and I certainly don't want more of them. I don't seriously believe that someone signed me up to receive these gross offers and I absolutely wouldn't hire someone to help me out in this manner. I am NOT desperate. I am NOT lesbian. But I AM completely sick of the explicit sexual , and I'm grossed out by it. Don't get me wrong; I'm all for things of a sexual nature…God invented that stuff so it's not like it's not supposed to ever happen…but He meant for it to happen within very specific situations and circumstances. The stuff that's being thrown my way is NOT within those specific situations or circumstances. I'm tired of having sexually graphic words and images show up in my email inbox. I'm tired of seeing it on television, sick of hearing it on the radio and totally disgusted with people talking about it like it's some casual thing like going to a barbecue. I've had it! I am rational enough to realize it's not going to change, but I don't have to like it: I don't have to be happy about it, and I certainly didn't ask for it! I wish we could find a happy medium between eras. If we could somehow mesh the innocent, or at least modest, behavior of the 40s and 50s with the honest and open communication of the 90s and 00s we could have a nice happy medium. We need to allow the truly innocent to remain innocent as long as they like, and we need to allow those who are trying to regain some innocence to have that opportunity as well. For those people who want to talk about or offer trashy opportunities, go ahead, but do it within the guidelines of the law! Free speech is one thing but we've got to balance it with the understanding that not everyone needs or wants to have access to this kind of stuff. If your free speech messes with my pursuit of happiness then we've got a problem. Ugh. I'm just grossed out! I'm not a prude by any means; I'm just tired of base people being allowed to force their disgusting crap on me. I don't care about what they want to do or with whom they want to do it. I have no desire to know what's on their minds. I just want to open up my email and read stuff that I actually want to read, from people I actually know or with whom I have some kind of connection. I just want things to be cleaned up! Perhaps it will be like the story from the Bible where Jesus goes into the temple and overturns the tables of the moneychangers and vendors, and scares the bad guys away so they don't come back. Someday He will come in and clean house and all the crap will be thrown out and life will be sweet and innocent again, and we won't have to deal with dirty people offering dirty things.
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December 28, 2006 - Thursday
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