Oh, Grow UP!

For years I've been scratching my head over the kind of things that bother my neighbors on this planet.

WHY would anybody care what anybody else did for sex?  Other than just because sex is so interesting?

Why do guys freak out if they see two guys kissing?  Why does everybody have to know every minute what all the other consenting adults are doing in their sex lives?  Why are undercover cops allowed to play bait in a system that makes it illegal for anybody to hit on anybody else?  

Part of this is my confusion, as a woman.  The representative that got caught trolling for a cute, blond, very available cop did nothing more than wave his fingers and tap a toe at the guy. 

As a woman, I've sat on a crowded bus while a respectable-looking businessman ground his crotch against my shoulder.  Guys I've rejected in a bar because all I wanted to do was have a beer and dance threatened to haul out their johnsons right on the spot.  Guys driving by in the dark -- well, do we have to repeat the kind of language gets howled at any woman walking on the side of the road?  I've had guys try to run me over because I ignored them. 

All woman know how to turn these guys down.  We're told that we should "take it as a compliment," or, "Don't be sensitive."  But any guy who gets asked to have a cup of coffee -- or winked at in a restroom -- nearly has a heart attack.  They'll even kill the guys who try to hit on them!  Are all guys such sissies?  If women took a two-by-four to every guy who hit on us like this, our species would be extinct. 

And while we're at it, what gave Cutey Cop -- or the society that hired him -- the right to butt into anybody's sex life?  Who do these people think they are?  If the guy is messing around, that's his wife's business.  What right do any of us have to stick our noses into any of this?

I've finally figured it all out.  Most of this country is on the high-school level.  My husband said that they really enjoyed high school and wish they could return.

WHAT?  Why would anybody want to go back to swotting all that homework?  Or riding those awful busses?  Or eating those awful lunches?  And putting up with those stupid pep-rallies and sports events (at least until we IQ types boycotted our way into a nice quiet study-hall). 

He's right, though.  Look at our society -- 50-year-old white-haired women trying to run their communities like they still carried pom-pom's, right down to the cliques and fund-drives.  50-year-old men judging people's character by their ability to throw a ball.  Everybody voting by popularity.  Sneering at learning, and sitting back lamely while the WASL tests tear our education system apart (that's a whole 'nother article).  Fear of language.

The next time somebody does something with his or her sex life as a consenting adult with a consenting adult that you consider icky, ask yourself just what high-school right you have to get mixed up in it.  If you're an adult who doesn't consent when another adult appoaches you, then say you're not interested, like a grown-up!  And don't push it if you're doing the approaching.   Don't lay stupid traps that take up the court-time we need for our idiot drug war (THAT article's been written.).

 Take it as a compliment.