A quick
recap of the current state of play in the liberal’s social
agenda. Homosexuality was decriminalized along with sodomy in
2003, same-sex Civil
Unions followed suit in 2000 and then same-sex marriage
in 2015
.
Abortion was
decriminalized in 1973 and American abortion
laws are considered “among the most permissive in the world.”
Pending a Supreme
Court decision transgendered people can serve in the military.
It would appear that, barring one or two further Trump appointed Supreme Court
justices, all is rosy in liberaland, with one serene Gay person tweeting “I am
more involved with planting roses along my white picket fence than having any
concern about Gay rights now.”
The position of feminism is, I have no qualms whatsoever in
stating, so complex with such a massive numbers of variants, as shown by a
simple Google of “Feminism” which commences with “Cultural, Ecofeminism,
Mainstream, French, Liberal, Libertarian, Multiracial, Poststructural” and it
is beyond the scope of this article, or anyone except the most intrepid to
navigate through such a vast field. Perhaps it is sufficient to say that such
diversity in itself represents a liberal achievement.
The liberal feminist challenge has come from a perhaps unexpected
quarter where transgendered males are cleaning up in women’s sports especially
weightlifting and rugby and, as
illustrated a testosterone heavy female “transitioning” to male
appears to be doing as well as might be expected against oestrogen
disadvantaged females.
While athletes and parents have been complaining about this
apparent sporting imbalance it appears to have gone unaddressed by feminists of
any wave but pressure will surely make it a matter of notice. Not least because
also unaddressed is the problem of inequality in sport In general. Why for
example, are there only mixed doubles in tennis?
For true equality doubles could include two females against
two males, or an NFL championship featuring the top men’s team against the top
female’s team. For liberals it must be surmised that there should simply not be
such outdated concepts as “male” or “female” sports or teams and all such
should be composed of fifty percent of each gender or gender belief.
However
there are some further, current, aspects of these and other liberal cultural
desiderata, that appear to have matters still unfulfilled for some while
creating a challenging dichotomy for others. If the above social changes are
applauded by liberals what social constraints do currently meet with their
approval? This is where the dichotomy appears.
“Where there
is love there should be marriage” this driving message for same-sex marriage
appears not to apply to Gay same-sex polygamy nor heterosexual polygamy. The
apparent lack of logic seems quite striking as how much more love must there be
between a man and say six men or a woman with six men or six women?
Pederasty
appears to have a cast of liberal opprobrium but the “love” message seems to
apply even here with “NAMBLA” The
North American Man/Boy Love Association have battled for decades to have this
aspect of love legalized. It appears that Man/Girl love is a step too far,
currently, for even the most activist of liberals but who knows what the future
holds.
It might be
thought that bestiality or “Zoosexual
Activity” would be beyond the attention of even the most progressive
but to the contrary it is making strides in that most liberal of countries,
Trudeau’s Canada where the Supreme Court ruled that “only penetrative sexual
acts with animals is illegal while not sanctioning “other beastly
activities.”
With further
good news for those so inclined they have ruled that ownership of “zoophilic
pornography” can be enjoyed at leisure without any legal problems. For
Americans, American Samoa, The Marianas and Guam give unfettered (or fettered
if preferred, I don’t know if “mutual agreement applies’) access. It is Legal
for civilians at the U.S.A’s Guantanamo Naval Base but servicemen there have
been banned from such perceived pleasures only since 2016.
Rape,
surely, has universal condemnation from liberals but even here there are
qualifications. As set out in The
Federalist “You can still assault women and be a good
feminist” Rebecca Schoenkopf Editor of that most leftist progressive journal
“Wonkette” advised “To sum up, I think Bill Clinton could very
well have raped Juanita Broaddrick,” she writes. “It doesn’t make him an evil
man, or irredeemable (I’m Catholic; we’re all forgiven, if we’re sorry, and
Broaddrick says Bill Clinton personally called her up to apologize). It doesn’t
even necessarily make him a bad feminist — you know, later, once he stops doing that.” It could be inferred that
rape by a liberal is, with qualifications, OK.
The Supreme Court ruling on
abortion has not satisfied some liberals who want no restrictions whatsoever
whether a foetus is viable or not. The now Alabama Senator Democrat Doug
Jones advised I am not in favour of anything that impinges
on a woman’s right and freedom to choose…[I] become a pro-lifer after the child
is born.”
It appears that for liberals
while there is much to be celebrated there appears to be much work to be done
and complete and settled positions to be taken on outstanding social issues
e.g. Sharia law, female genital mutilation as cultural expression (good?) Male
genital mutilation (circumcision) as cultural expression
(bad?) Before liberal America is firmly and irrevocably in place.
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