I AM VERY OFTEN CONSIDERING THIS “SCRIPTURE” AND HOW SOMETIMES, IT WORKS FOR CERTAIN CHILDREN AND MANY TIMES, IT DOES “NOT” WORK FOR OTHERS!!
Proverbs 22:6
New King James Version
One of the most quoted verses about parenting is found in Proverbs 22:6, “Train up a child in the way he should go and when he is old he will not depart from it” (English Standard Version).
6 Train up a child in the way he should go,
[a]And when he is old he will not depart from it.
PEOPLE/HUMANS HAVE “GLAMORIZED” AND “CHEERED-ON”, THE “EVILNESS/BADNESS/AND “NASTY PEOPLE”, EVEN BACK THROUGH THE “DAYS OF BRUTAL COLISEUMS OF Gladiator FIGHTS TO THE DEATH” AS ENTERTAINMENT AND EVEN IN TODAY’S “SO-CALLED SMARTER/TECHNOLOGICAL WORLD”=WE HUMANS ALWAYS ENJOY OUR “ANIMAL-ISM/WILDNESS” AND “BARBARIC NATURES”=AS 1/ONE OF THE MODERN DAY GREAT FILMS IS/WAS: Gladiator
THE MOST MODERN VERSION IS CALLED; The Hunger Games
“WAR/KILLING/VIOLENCE” IS “ALL GLAMORIZED” AND HONESTLY; I HAVE NEVER WATCHED EITHER OF THE ABOVE MENTIONED FILMS, ALTHOUGH I DID TRY TO WATCH “GLADIATOR”, A COUPLE OF TIMES, AND I BECAME UNINTERESTED AND/OR BORED, AND TURNED TO SOMETHING ELSE (SPORTS STUFF/HISTORY CHANNEL).
BUT, EVEN AS “VETERANS DAY” WAS OVER THE WEEKEND, I NEVER HAVE AND DID NOT WATCH ANY OF THE “WAR FILMS/MOVIES/DOCUMENTARIES”=I SIMPLY AM NEVER VERY MUCH INTERESTED IN “WAR MOVIES”=EVEN THOUGH I HAVE VOLUNTEERED FOR MANY, MANY YEARS WITH VETERAN’S ORGANIZATIONS, AND I DO APPRECIATE THE SERVICE OF MILITARY MEMBERS=”WAR IS SIMPLY HELL-ON-EARTH” AND ITS “NOT MY IDEA OF ENTERTAINMENT”!
THE OTHER DAY; WE HAD OUR “LAS VEGAS SUPER BOWL 2024 HOST COMMITTEE MEETING AT A VERY, VERY GREAT LAS VEGAS FACILITY FOR “MMA” AND/OR “FIGHTING” AS LIKE THE “GLADIATORS” OF OLD…I WAS VERY SURPRISED AT HOW NICE THE FACILITY WAS/IS AND ITS WHOLE PURPOSES IS FOR “VIOLENT ENTERTAINMENT” IN “REAL/TRUE LIFE”=”NOT JUST AS A VIDEO GAME”!!!
SOO, I SAW THIS STORY/ARTICLE, FROM Carrie Kaufman
We Have Taught Our Girls To Love Dangerous Men
And our boys to be them
NOV 12, 2023
When my children were six, I mistakenly let them watch Twilight, on the advice of another mother, who couldn’t stop raving about the movie, and how romantic it was.
About a quarter of the way through, I paused the CD.
“I’m going to let you watch it till the end,” I told them. “But I want to explain what you’re watching. This is one of a long line of movies that tell women they should fall in love with dangerous men. I mean, look at Bella’s choices here: one guy, who is going to take away her humanness – and her ability to choose later in life – so she will stay with him forever; and another guy, who has to stifle his impulses to be violent with her. Neither of these are healthy. Both are forms of abuse.”
They stared at me, saying nothing.
“Do you understand?” I asked.
They nodded.
“OK,” I said, “Keep that in mind as you watch and as you see other stories like this. Stories shape how we see the world, and how we let others see us.”
This was something I repeated over and over as they were growing up.
They nodded again. I re-snuggled myself between them, and pressed play.
About six years later, when they were getting into my car after Hebrew school, my taller daughter (they are twins, and are 5 inches apart, so if I’m not using their names, it’s just easier to refer to them as taller and shorter)… my taller daughter got into the car angry. There was a boy in her class who was an asshole. And his assholeness was directed primarily at her.
She was furious with this kid, whom she had complained about before. But she was more upset with her female Hebrew school teacher, who laughed and told her the boy was just doing that because he liked her.
“I don’t buy into that shit where you accept someone being mean to you as romantic,” taller daughter said.
I drove away thinking, “Seed planted. Flower blooms.”
About six years after that, taller daughter raved to me about the movie she had just seen – the Keira Knightley remake of Pride and Prejudice…CONT…PLEASE GO READ THE WHOLE “STORY/ARTICLE” (https://carriekaufman.substack.com/p/we-have-taught-our-girls-to-love?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=444510&post_id=138817333&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=9zofs&utm_medium=email)
SOOO, HAVING WATCHED HOW PEOPLE “GLAMORIZE THE GREAT WESTERN OUTLAWS” AND HISTORICAL “MOB BOSSES” AND “EVIL CHARACTERS”, I FIND IT “SAME-OLE-SAME-OLE”; THAT MILLIONS AND MILLIONS “GLAMORIZE THE T-MAN” AND THE “EVIL LIARS AND DEMONIC CONTROLLED CONGRESS PEOPLE AND OTHER “EVIL-ACTING” HUMANS. “EVIL/NASTINESS/CRIMINAL/DEVILS” IS OUR “HUMAN ENTERTAINMENT” AND RELEASES THE “BELOVED BRAIN FIRINGS AND ACTIVITIES AND BODY CHEMICALS, THAT “MOST OF “U.S.” SINNERS AND CRAZY HUMANS CALL “ENJOYMENT/PLEASURE CENTRAL SYSTEMS EASEMENT S”!!!
“WE” HUMANS LOVE “WARS” AND “VIOLENCE AND “KILLING OF OTHERS” AND ARE ENTERTAINED BY
BADNESS”, WAY, WAY TOO MUCH; SOO,
CARRIE KAUFMAN’S STORY/ARTICLE IS OF “NOTHING NEW, UNDER THE SUN/SON” AS 1/ONCE, I DID AN “ACTIVITY POLL”, WHEN I 1ST/FIRST BEGAN OUR “MEDIA/NEWS” COMPANY, BACK AROUND 2001-2002. I POLLED ABOUT 75 FEMALES, AS TO WHETHER THEY WOULD LOVE “A THUGG” OR PREFER “A GENTLEMAN”??; AND ABOUT 80/% CHOSE “THE THUGG”=WHICH GREATLY PERPLEXED ME. IN FOLLOW UP, I ASKED THEM WHY; THEY PRETTY MUCH GAVE SIMILAR ANSWERS OF; “THE THUGG WOULD PROTECT THEM BETTER” AND SOO I ASKED, A “GENTLEMAN, OPENING THE DOOR FOR YOU, WORKING HARD, BEING FAITHFUL TO YOU, NEVER HITTING/BEATING ON YOU=DOES THAT MATTER?? THEY “NEVER REALLY THOUGHT ABOUT WHAT I ASKED, UNTIL I ASKED” AND I TOLD THEM, “THAT THUGG”, WILL CHEAT ON YOU, BEAT YOU UP, AND “OWN YOU AS HIS PROPERTY” AND THEN WHAT??? THEY GAVE ME THIS “PUZZLED/QUESTIONED STARE/LOOKS” AND ‘SCOFFED AWAY”!!!
©I’M W.O.K.E. & I’M PROUD!; “Teaching/TRAINING/EDUCATING” OUR YOUTHS, TO “LOVE SIN/EVIL/DANGER”!!
