Tuesday, January 24, 2006

Hollywood Makes a Romantic Comedy about Bestiality

It had to happen. I had this worked out ten years ago when I figured out that people would find ways to make pretty much anything they really wanted to do seem acceptable. Society would happily go along, of course. I even had a timetable, first homosexuality would become commonplace on TV and in movies, then it would be incest (between adults at first), bestiality, then the unthinkable one, pedophilia. Everything would be justified, everything would be made easy for people's consciences to digest. After that you would have rape, the conflict of this with women's rights would be done away with by providing the semblance of consent, or ensuring that the victim would be completely unsympathetic (say the rape of a terrorist). Rest assured that sometime in the next half-century you will have movies with sympathetic pedophiles and rapists. People will come out of the closet and openly admit bestiality. You will have movies with adult heroes and their 12 year-old girlfriends/wives, who may or may not be their daughters. It sounds horribly ridiculous now, but Brokeback Mountain would have sounded Horribly ridiculous twenty years ago.