Hollywood’s Campaign Against Virginity
A good column came out from Stephen Crowder with which I agree:
Is there anything more abnormal than being a mid-teen virgin in the year 2009? Not if you’d hear Hollywood tell it. After watching a slew of teen-movies this weekend, I feel quite pathetic. It seems that all this time, I’ve been trying to follow my convictions and make a difference in this world, when I really should have been spending my time scoring with chicks. Has anybody else out there come to this realization as of late?
In the same breath, ladies; You simply haven’t been empowering yourselves as young women unless you’ve been riding the old bone rollercoaster. Purity is for losers, don’t you know…
From TV shows aimed squarely at young dames such as “Gossip Girl” or “90210,” to hit teen films like “American Pie” or the recent “Adventureland,” the message in regards to sexuality is quite clear; If you’re still a virgin at 16, there must be something wrong with you. Sure, it would be bad enough that all of these programs are laden with super-model-turned actors having sex like banshees (the parents are never around, mind you), but Hollywood doesn’t stop there. No, the good old folks in Tinseltown feel the need to twist the knife and go out of its way to point out the abnormality of abstinence.
The truth is that even in the most liberal of statistics, over 40% of kids remain virgins through their teen years. Keep in mind that a good percentage of those poll’d in these “blind studies” are men and let’s be honest… A good 30% of them are probably lying, so you can bet that the real statistics would favor the lonely little virgins even more.
If you were an alien dropped on to planet Earth however, forced to deduce the sexuality of the human species solely from what Hollywood pumps out, you’d probably think that nobody made it past 16 without having schtupped a myriad of partners.
One would have to wonder how much different that statistic would be if Hollywood WEREN’T pressuring teenagers to engage in the horizontal mambo. If Hollywood put all of its “virginity is for suckers” energy into promoting “saving sex till marriage,” I bet we’d see a very different, much more lopsided statistic. Of course Hollywood could never do that, as they don’t believe in “forcing ones beliefs on others”… Unless of course said beliefs include situational ethics, then it’s time to preach it father, preach it!
This is utterly true:
Hollywood campaigns against the notion of ‘forcing beliefs on someone’ (which translates into ‘holding oneself and others to higher standards of behavior’) and attempts to promote viewing sex as a comedy or as a necessary act in the coming of age — hardly an act to consummate an important and significant relationship.
Hollywood’s only values are in exploiting images of what is deemed cool and promoting faddish causes taken up by pinhead celebrities. Hollywood has been trying to push its liberal agenda on the rest of the country for quite some time… And that’s fine, too, because I think it is generally agreed that looking to Hollywood film for meaning is a bad move and it’d be much simpler to rent a foreign film.
American pop culture is damaging the values that had made the society great, the stoic discipline inherent in all civilizations, and likewise has eroded the sense of values that have existed in other societies in exchange for… Promoting teenage sex and Perez Hilton.
I view this as a symptom that comes from the general opulence and luxury we’ve achieved that gives us an arrogance and a pride and a sense of decadence… We are at a point from which we probably cannot really turn around unless there is a catalyst to promote change.
The libertines in Hollywood, from their high and mighty Beverly Hills mansions, have no interest in any concept of morality that doesn’t make them look charitable.
It’s odd that normal people look to abnormal aristocrats for entertainment — but then again, it is easy to see why — they are capable of divorcing and marrying and adopting children more than the average person adopts animals.
At the end of the day… We must take better care of our kids and remember to laugh at the portrayals that Hollywood tries to give us of our lives. I normally cannot even consume good Hollywood material because it is so shallow in general content as to produce laughter from the belly when confronted with particularly corny situations. Furthermore, the idea of any show that documents the social interactions of a bunch of rich, bored lamers experimenting with their feelings is repugnant.
People are not realizing these days that life is more than a hedonistic calling to the loins — it is a call to build and achieve something. However, I think may people do not even know what the word achievement even means after we elect leaders who wish to build welfare states.
Our Rome is dying.