Once again I return home to the United States only to have something immediately start pissing me off. For those of you who don’t know, I spend most of my time in Peru. Peru is a third world country which means that it suffers from a level of poverty that most Americans can’t even comprehend. For example, an American family might think it is poor if it makes less than 5,000 dollars a year. However, what the American family doesn’t calculate into this equation is the fact that they get free education up to the twelfth grade. Also American poverty doesn’t generally mean starvation, or high infant mortality rate. But the biggest advantage that an American family has is that they live in a strong economy, and if they really put their nose to the grindstone, they have the possibility of working their way into the middle or upper classes.
It isn’t like that in Peru. A friend of mine, who was visiting me in Peru, didn’t believe the poverty was worse there than in America. Later in the trip, he came back to the hotel from a personal excursion and told me this story about this boy he met on the street who was so “lonely” that my friend couldn’t be free of him. The kid took to waiting outside of shops and museums for my friend, and even asked permission to accompany my friend back to his hotel room.
Hearing this made me sneer.
“Lonely? You think he was lonely?” I asked.
“Yeah, he was just a lonely kid who wanted a bit of attention.” Responded my friend.
“No, that kid was a poor, deprived boy living in a third world country who was offering his body to you with the hope that you might provide him with some monetary reward.” I explained.
My friend didn’t want to believe it, but later I explained the situation to several Peruvians who instantly agreed with my assessment. You see, it is quite common for young boys and girls to seek out rich Americans for “economic assistance.” A lot of them don’t have any other choice.
So this was the kind of stuff I had been dealing with when I stepped off the airplane in the Atlanta airport and started watching the 10,000$, completely necessary, plasma TV that was hanging over the seating area as I waited for my connection.
And what do you think was on the TV?
An issue about how much good Americans could do if they stopped buying their plasma TVs and started using their excessive wealth to set up industry and education in third world countries like Peru so that little boys wouldn’t have to beg rich Americans to perform lewd sexual acts upon them for money? No of course not. They were bitching about Janet Jackson’s breast exposure during the super bowl.
A lot of words were being tossed about like: immoral, disgusting, horrifying, appalling, and shameless self-promotion. The ironic part is that every god damned show that was denouncing this act, kept playing it on the screen over and over and over again. They sure were pretty content to make their own money and entice their own viewers over a piece of footage they kept claiming they found to be morally reprehensible.
So the first thing that came to my mind was how fortunate and spoiled the US was to be able to waste such a massive amount of TV time on some issue that is so completely irrelevant and idiotic. That was my response to one three minute segment I saw in the airport. Imagine how irritated I began to get when Breastgate continued over the next week and a half with no let up in coverage.
I’ve got an idea, why don’t we do a show about child prostitution in Peru and use words like: immoral, disgusting, horrifying, etc., etc.. Why don’t we mention how there would probably be no prostitution if it weren’t for sick American and European tourists who were willing to pay for such acts?
Oh yeah, we don’t give a fuck about what happens to people in other parts of the world. I keep forgetting. Unless, of course, they crash airplanes into our buildings and give us a transparent excuse for an illegal war which we justify by saying that we were only acting in the interests of the people of Iraq.
“We are acting to free the oppressed dune coons, towel-heads, sand-niggers, of Iraq. We love those people.”
I find that kind of racism disgusting, and I think anti-Arabic racism is the worst the US has to offer. I find it so bizarre that you can’t get one good word out of American citizens over Arabic people or their culture, but they’ll tell you straight faced that we’re in Iraq to help those people. If there is a group of people that Americans could give less of a shit about it is Arabs. Funny how that never comes up in the papers when we are talking about things that are horrifying, disgusting, immoral. We’re too busy bitching about how we don’t want to see the breast of an attractive woman.
So let me see, I’ve already established that I think there are major issues in the world that deserve media coverage that far outweigh the idiotic shit the US media pacifies its people with. But since the topic has been engaged, let me offer my thoughts on Breastgate.
I LIKE SEEING ATTRACTIVE WOMEN BEAR THEIR BREASTS! Why isn’t anybody defending my position? As an American, why shouldn’t I have the privilege of turning on regular TV and being able to see a nice set of hooters? Another news flash: IT DOESN’T DO ANYBODY ANY HARM TO LOOK AT NAKED BREASTS! It doesn’t promote violence, illegal economic sanctions, racial war, or anything. Looking at breasts is good. It makes people happy.
You want proof that nudity doesn’t harm a culture in any way? Look at Europe. Europe has a much more relaxed and forward thinking position on nudity. They show pornographic movies on regular TV late at night. Does Europe have a problem with school shootings? NO! Does Europe have the problems of racial hatred that the US shows? NO! Is there a connection?
Jesus fucking Christ, why are we such a pack of god-damned prudes? Aren’t we old enough and mature enough to be able to appreciate the nude human form without acting like a bunch of indignant assholes?
But to hear people talk, you’d think that for a child to see a breast means that he/she will be so fundamentally damaged that they will be pigeonholed into a life of complete moral depravity.
But that isn’t even the end of where I have problems with this issue. The implications of that idiotic thought spread to every level of our society. I can’t begin, nor am I smart enough, to start mapping them all out, but I can feel the weight of that misplaced judgment everywhere I turn.
Those fuckers think they can judge me? I’ve spent the last two years helping impoverished people in a third world country! They think they’re better than me because they recoil at the sight of an attractive breast?
I think any man or woman who says they don’t want to see attractive, naked, mature bodies is completely fucked up. If you don’t want to see that, you are sick! It’s a basic human longing. If you don’t face it, you end up with such horrible institutions as religious groups that repeatedly rape children and aren’t ever held accountable because the whole fucking nation is too fucked up and prudish to handle human sexuality responsibly.
This whole Breastgate thing is really turning into the straw that broke the camel’s back. I have a lot of pride in what America was founded on. I think the founding fathers were some of the most brilliant men in history. I think the idea of freedom is of paramount importance.
But where are these things in modern America? If my right to see a breast is revoked by angry, indignant, American citizens, then I’m not sure that country is America anymore.
I sure as shit don’t want to live in a country that doesn’t have any appreciation for breasts. Breasts are some of the best things this world has to offer.
And America is so fucked up right now that I’ll probably be labeled as unpatriotic for saying so. Well fuck ‘em, I’m not going to lie about it.
I love breasts.
MORE BREASTS ON TV!
I love having sex with women too, I see no problem in admitting it.
And the only thing that gets me as angry as the American response to Breastgate, is the sight of some poor boy on the streets of a third world country begging to get a cock up his ass for a handful of American dollars.
Wasting time talking about idiotic shit in the most powerful media that has ever existed is so diabolically criminal that I have doubts over the humanity of both the people that propagate it, and the morons who listen to it.
And those fuckers think they can judge me?
Fuck them!
And maybe if more people thought the way I did and actually used their time and their extreme privilege of wealth that comes from being American citizens, maybe we’d do enough good so that nobody anywhere would ever feel the need to fly a plane into one of our buildings ever again.
Dumb fucking assholes. The answer is so obvious.
The End