This video is actually quite hilarious. The crazy part about it, this guy is so right. Its cute to belive that there is only one person in the world that is made for you, but honestly, where is the proof? The answer is that there is none. There is NO way that a person could get on a bus and sit next to a random person, who just happens to be going to the same place, and starts talking to them, and end up as soul mates. You could honestly call anyone you ever date a soul mate, just as long as the relationship is going well in your eyes. So, like when one person wants to leave, and the other still wants to stay together, is taht suppose to mean that the person left behind will never love again? False. Yeah, they might be broken up about it, but eventually everyone moves on, even if they still do have feelings for an ex. What this guy is saying is completely logical. Just like I chose to come to penn state, i could've chosen to go to temple and I would have a totally different experinces. We make choices everyday that are eithr minor or major, and either can detrmine whether we meet someone we could have a potential relationship with.
Now, from a sociological aspect, their lifestyle totally make sense. It saves money, eases labor as its equally distributed, and creates closer familly ties. Isnt it a mans dream to have sex with twins? So how is that not looked down apon, but a woman sleeping with brothers is not ok? It happens in western society all the time anyway. There is always a story about how a grilfriend cheated with the her boyfriends brother, or the boyfirend cheated with his girlfriends sister. Being married means that all the brothers know whats going on, there is no secrecy, and since they all have to agree with the marriage in order to get married, possibly no fighting. I still think its weird, but thats because of the way i was raised. When you are raised to be a hoe, you become one and see nothing wrong with it. when you are raised with the awareness of homosexuals, you dont cringe when you see a gay couple. It really does matter what you are exposed to and how your personal experiences may shape the way you think, but they are not forcing their practices onto anyone, so I think they should just be left alone to do what they do. It has nothing to do wiith what westerners may think.
So, I am going to try really hard not to be biased here. I know that growing up in western society, we have different views on marriage than the culture of the people in this video. There are some who are still completely hostile against gay marriage, so how can we even think about having multiple partners and that being ok? It would not be seen as socially and culturally correct. Especially for a wife to have multiple husbands. It is no secret that the majority stereotype is that a guy sleeping with multiple girls at one time means he is cool , pimp, or player that earns braggin rights about the number of girls he has slept with. But when it comes to females, having multiple partners will give her the title of slut, skank, whore, hoe, etc.
I actually have seen this video before. in my psych class last semetser. apparently we are hard wired as children to go along with the group. No matter how hard we try to combat againstant, there is something in our biology that forces us to group think. even for the people who consider themselves "loners" or "diffrent" they are still apart of a group that would consider themselves as such.
Its mind boggling that we as humans with common sense will do such dumb things just to be apart of the group. the salem witch trials are a great example. all of those poeple didnt belive that everyone who was killed was a actual witch, but group think kept them apart of something. as long as they werent being accused, anything to keep them away from trials was totally fine. with these people in the elevator, its the same thing. as long as they were not looked a differently by the gropu, it didnt matter how much of a fool they were making themselves.
It seems to be a wonderful thing that M. is reflecting on his or her life. On the choices they have made. On how to be a better person. But are they feeling this way because of the 8 by 8 cell they live in? Is it a response to the fact that they will never be free, no matter how much "good behavior" they show? Are they just trying to conveince themselves that yes, they are a good person now, even though they committed a crime that got them in the position they are in? Was it self deffence that they killed someone, or was it just cold blood? How are we suppose to know whether this person has really changed, or whether they are just telling us waht we want to here?
__It is really hard for me to explain exactly what I am feeling right now. On one hand, I empythize with this person who has spent their entire youth behind bars. On the other hand, i cant help but wonder what M. did to deserve the sentence he or she is serving. Our morals are instilled in us as children by our parents, teachers, guardians, adult figures, siblings, family,, ect. As we get older, it is our own personal choice to follow what we were taught, be it good things or bad things, or either rebell against what should be the foundation of our character. But how is one to know for sure exactly what is the rigth thing to do? Everyone everywhere has their own personal take on the proper way to behave. Some parents teach their children that if someone hits them, hit them back. Others teach their kids that if someone hits them, tell an adult and do not hit them back. Something as simple as a childs quarrel can end in two very different ways all as a result of what they were taught.
The best idea I can come up with is to just continue to try and educate teens on how to have safe sex and make them understand how hard taking care of a child really is, while still being just a child themselves. I know that sex ed classes may not make a big difference, but mabey having a manditory amount of sessions a student must attend in order to get credit toward a grade in a class will make them go. Having people come and speak of personal testimonies about how having a baby greatly changed their lives, how having unprotected sex gave them a STD, maybe that will get through to the teens. Nobody wants to sit and listen to a 40 year old talk about sex....ew. But having younger speakers that they can relate to may have a greater chance to hit home and get throught to them.
I know that the administrators of the school board or whatever think that after school programs will help prevent teen pregnancy, but I dont think that is the case. The fact of the matter is that if someone wants to have sex, they will. Adolescents can easily lie about where they are, as they have been doing since the begining of forever. I've seen it personally. When school lets out early, dont tell the parents, that way you can go to your boyfriends house without the mom finding out. Maybe the choice for these girls wasnt to get pregnant, but the choice to have sex was certainly there own. Lets face it, it only takes that broken condom, forgetting to take birth control pills, or simply having unprotected sex in order to get pregnant. Even if these teens were involved with clubs, there hormones will get the better of them one way or another, and they will find a way in oder to be with there significant other. I know people who even have had sex IN school, so after school programs isnt even a factor.
On top of all this, the mother basically admitts that she is living through her daughter when she said she was captain of the cheerleading squad back when she was in high school. Clearly, putting her child in pageants so early is a way for her to gain regonition on how her daughter is " just like you when you were her age". When a child wins a pageant, yeah she gets the crown, but the moms, or coaches really, are the ones who get the praise and braggin rights about how their child won "this many pageants" and " this much money". Im not even going to get into how the little girls wardrobe was a mess. Madonna? Really? Are you telling me she couldnt find a role model that isnt famous for a song titled " Like a Virgin" and known for wearing risque outfitts? Look man, Im not even trying to hear that bull crap.
Pageants do nothing for little girls but rob them of the most careefree years of their lives. As adults, women cry when they dont win pageants, some more severly than others. So what do you think will happen when a little 5 year old looses a competition of looks to a blonde little girl while she is a red head, or brunette? Dont you think her self esteem issues are going to implant themselves in her psyche so early on that it will be so hard for her to get out of her mindset that she simply wasnt pretty enough, sweet enough, special enough? Especially when yolu have parents that tell you that you have to try harder in order to win and be better than all the other girls.
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