Quick! Avert your eyes. . . nature is happening.
Not a housecat, no matter what some commission may decide.
New York's Commission on Human Rights had determined that its unconstitutional not to serve pregnant women alcohol.
That's stupid.
Nowhere in any constitution, state or Federal, is there a clause that says "When a pregnant boozehound comes into your dram shop, you shall liquor her up". Nonsense.
But a lot of or cutting edge social law has become quite nonsensical recently.
Truth be known, a lot of the original concepts of rights involve "leave people alone". They hardly ever involved "you must recognize this". People had the right to assemble, but you didn't have to credit their assembly as smart, nifty or valuable. People had the right to be secure in their own homes, which basically meant leaving them alone, at home. Lots of stuff was that way.
Now, however, there are beginning to be a lot of "you musts". And the "you musts" are often followed by the social derision of the pop class, who is rarely impacted by anything directly. And a lot of this is because our country has become almost completely divorced from nature, and seeing a sudden acceleration of "you must" recognize this or that.
Indeed, just yesterday I actually heard a person interviewed who has "changed" their gender (a genetic impossibility) state that he or she should be allowed in a bathroom that comports to his or her gender reassignment, but that those who dressed contrary to their gender were "perverts". My goodness, how can a person actually make that statement? Its incredibly biased, and at the same time mind numbingly confusing to the vast majority of people who are comfortable with the gender dictates of their DNA and their clothing. Can a person actually say that? I don't think so. They shouldn't say it, and I have to believe that what they meant was actually something else and that htey didn't mean to go after the clothing thing. After all, how can a person who has had surgery and who is taking chemicals to defeat their DNA say that about somebody who is just wearing a different set of clothes. Bizarre.
On the bathroom thing, I'm not commenting on where people who have had their genders reassigned should go and I doubt that they or anyone else actually regarded this as a burning issue. It seems to me that they probably have to go where surgery has now assigned them. Indeed, I'm amazed that this is now an issue that requires Federal pondering. I'll say beyond that, however, that at the point at which the Federal government starts issuing guidelines on this, it obviously has too little to actually do. Likewise, when celebrities start spouting on it, it shows how slavish they are to trends. I don't think any legislature needs to legislate on this at all, and that in the absence of all of the recent legislation, this would never have been an issue, but at the same time what this reflects is a sense in society that something has gone really wrong in what people are being told they must believe. Gender reassignment is a prime example, as statistically its' a disaster with horrific impacts for a large percentage of the people who undergo it. In Europe its generally prohibited for minors and its been shown that the majority of minors who claim confusion later resolve it in accordance with their actual DNA. But here in the US we are actually entering a "you must not question" people who declare that they wish to do this, in spite of the horrible historical track records that actually exist. We claim to have "freedom of speech", but here we are outright declaring that the speech must be squelched and you must accept this, in spite of the evidence.
This is contributing to the outright revolt in a percentage of the American electorate. Commenters wonder why a figure like Donald Trump has seized the GOP nomination this year, but stuff like this is why. When a person can't say "I think this is wrong", about gender reassignment, or "I think this is wrong", about serving a pregnant woman alcohol, they react. And when they do, it'll be an extreme reaction.
Most of this is, in some way, related to our separation from nature. We've always been a fallen species, but we now don't seem to know what we are. As a species, we have the highest degree of morphological and psychological differences between the two genders of any mammal. That's simply a fact. But in the name if equality we must now pretend that isn't so, and that everything is just the same as everything else. And apparently we must also pretend that a woman who is out to drown her baby in booze before the baby is even born isn't committing child abuse. She is.
No group of people can infinitely ignore nature. It will not work. Nature gets even. And societal movements that don't credit that don't last forever. Nor should they.
Nature deserves her due.
