This job is getting easier
All the answers are somewhere in my archives
If you are perplexed by "the 4B movement, the link below explains that it is
“…young American women declaring their commitment to “4B”, a fringe South Korean feminist movement advocating the rejection of marriage, childbirth, dating and sex.“
Of course, more than 12 years ago, I resolved this entire problem in the most general sense:
It is comforting that our media and politicians are focused on gay marriage. After all, little is more important. We would not want them to waste their time on that pesky global debt problem or a nuclear Iran.
There is a logical flaw, however. The assumption that “same sex marriage” is the complement to “marriage between a man and a woman” is wrong. Advocates of either position would have us believe that, collectively, the two alternatives exhaust all the possibilities. Not so. Many people are not in a same sex marriage, nor are they enjoying a man-woman marriage. Some people are not having sex with anyone.
I want to end discrimination against this downtrodden group.
There are a number of valid reasons that people do not have sex. Failure to find the right partner or no time left after Facebook are two reasons that sex is overlooked, not possible or just plain avoided by a large number of citizens. Some people have to ask their doctor first and we all know how hard it is to reach a doctor when you need one. Many of these people are single, paying higher taxes and health insurance premiums in addition to being deprived of intimacy, clearly a double insult.
Marching could be the problem. The celibate are not likely to have a “Pride Parade”, hence go unnoticed in the population. Not bringing attention to themselves, they have no voice.
Something must be done.
Why is the government so interested in knowing where people are sleeping? I understand and respect the long tradition of enfranchising children. Were that still being done somewhere perhaps the discussion would have more meaning. Even so, contracts exist to protect children and those few remaining responsible parents - biological or not - who wish to provide for their young will find a way to do so. The right questions to ask are: Does it make sense to tie economic benefits to sexual preference? Why are we creating protected classes based on this choice? Why do we offer different financial benefits for engaging in different forms of recreational activity? Should swimmers get more tax breaks than tennis players? Why should one who prefers bowling to sex have less economic prosperity? It turns out that this whole matter is just a variation on the old punch line “All we are arguing about is price”
The answers to these questions reveal that the entire dust-up is a distraction from the real problems we face. Filling the airwaves and cyberspace with titillating subject matter relieves politicians from a harsh light illuminating their dismal failure to do the jobs for which they were elected.
The logic required is: There is sex and not-sex. These two actually encompass all of human endeavors with the latter by far comprising more of the time spent living. We can afford voyeuristic dalliances only when we have put more pressing matters behind us. As feckless as government is mucking around in the not-sex part of our lives, need one point out the folly of expanding its reach into the remainder? Maybe there is a reason the first 43 Presidents had nothing to say about it.
But no one listens to me. So how about a law that requires everyone to wear a stick-on badge, like you see at conventions: “Hi, I’m Bob and I’m sleeping with Terry”. The digital equivalent would be a cellphone app with a French flavor, #CoucherAvec, that turns every citizen into paparazzi using facial recognition software. Aim my cellphone camera at you and I immediately know who your REAL friends are. Gives new meaning to “point and shoot”.
Here is a radical thought. I don’t care where you are sleeping, whether it is with one of the Kardashians or SquarePants SpongeBob. In fact I am bored with constant reports of where people are sleeping, including former and current Presidential candidates. Also, I don’t want any of your money paid to me for where I am sleeping; nor do I want money I earn to go to particular people with certain government-favored sleeping arrangements. I am for people PRIVATELY enjoying or suffering consequences of their own sleeping arrangements on their own.
Wherever you are sleeping – I don’t want to hear about it. Getting my own good night’s sleep anywhere keeps me busy enough.
Brown is an investor and freelance writer currently sleeping in Alpine.