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by Doug Wilson from Blog and Mablog – On the Moral Necessity of Judging Books by the Cover
Editor’s note: This post started out almost as a racist rant about how Hollywood feeds us clues about people based upon dress that carries over into real life. He then uses it to justify feeling nervous about seeing young black men in low-slung jeans and hoodies, claiming it’s not ‘racist’, before arriving at his original point. That point is — if you dress immodestly someone is going to think you are immediately available. But he claims he’s not saying that they should be raped. Yeah, right, subtext is everything, dude.
To use an offbeat analogy, it is also true that nothing justifies holding up a taco stand and shooting the clerk. But it is possible to hold this position while also maintaining that a taco stand ought not to advertise that they are selling sushi when they are in fact not selling sushi at all. And if that was the fact that made the shooter mad. So that principle is clear?
A chaste but foolish young woman does not deserve to be assaulted. Of course not. But she does deserve to hear an admonition from her favorite aunt. She does need to hear a caution from her husband. She does need to have a couple of embarrassing situations from which she might gather some wisdom. And the fact that we are being deliberately shaped and catechized into our incoherence by our entertainment habits can be seen in this simple fact. If someone maintains that a foolishly dressed woman deserves anything at all, even if only mild embarrassment when her aunt talks to her, this is represented as being tantamount to the claim that getting raped would be nothing but her just deserts. Which is crazy.
The problem I am addressing here is the incoherence of an entire generation that wants to be something or someone else, at their leisure, at their will, while never having to pay any kind of cost for being that something or someone else. It is all part of our generation’s revolt against maturity.
This is the image that Wilson used to illustrate this tripe:
…which I cannot find the original creator of this image but suspect it comes from a very funny site named Pulp The Classics. I suppose in the Doug Wilson version of the world we’re supposed to draw the assertion that Mr. Darcy is a womanizing bad boy because he’s smoking a cigarette?
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