Stalker songs, abortion, and polygamy
Apr 18th, 2008 by Amanda
Catchy title, eh?
So that song I posted about the other day? By David Cook? I’ve decided that it’s either the most romantic song ever or the creepiest song ever. I mean, have you ever actually listened to the lyrics?
You’ll always be a part of me
I’m part of you indefinitely
Girl don’t you know you can’t escape me
Darlin’ cuz you’ll always be my baby
I will linger on
Time can’t erase a feeling this strong
No way you’re never gonna shake me
Cuz you’ll always be my baby
So yeah… stalkerish. But it’s still my #1 swoon song right now (#2 is So Close by Jon McLaughlin from Enchanted).
I read this article today, and it makes me so unbelievably angry.
Beginning next Tuesday, Shvarts will be displaying her senior art project, a documentation of a nine-month process during which she artificially inseminated herself “as often as possible” while periodically taking abortifacient drugs to induce miscarriages. Her exhibition will feature video recordings of these forced miscarriages as well as preserved collections of the blood from the process.
I’ve said it a million times, and I’ll say it again. My anti-abortion stance doesn’t come from religious beliefs. My religious beliefs are pretty much gone, but I still hate abortion. I hate abortion.
I can have compassion and sympathy for a woman who wrestled with the decision and chose this path.
But I find myself filled with absolute disgust and contempt for this woman. Yale is now insisting that it isn’t true, that her art was “creative fiction.” Shvarts, however, still insists that it’s true.
The odd thing is that she states that she doesn’t know if she was ever actually pregnant.
I’m just at a loss of words. Honestly. What kind of person would inseminate themselves just so they could intentionally abort? Whether any babies were actually aborted or not… this is disgusting.
This whole polygamy case is breaking my heart. Quite honestly, I don’t care about the polygamy part. Whatever floats your boat. It’s the children. Young children being forced to marry and have children. Children should be children, not have children.
This is most definitely child abuse. Ordinarily I would advocate for parent rehabilitation and then for placing the child back in parental custody, but not in this case. I hope those people never see any of these children again. This is one case where I’m all for the marking or labeling of people as sex offenders - and ordinarily, I’m not. These people are just so wrong.
I dont know what is up with that woman. Some people are just sick. She doesnt represent anyone with that sort of nonsense. Those drugs are not fun (bloody and very painful) and how did she get them in the first place? You need a prescription. Im guessing its not true.
Creepiest part to me about those polygamists was that the whole town seemed to be in on it. Every previous interview with resident that news crews tried to have there (before the raid) they were secretive and not outgoing to friendly (which is opposite of how I found most southerners and texans to typically be). Its like they knew what they were doing was wrong but just wanted to keep doing it.
not too keep harping on this, but I am just interested… Biblically, and literally, is there anything in the bible that clearly exposes what they were doing was wrong?
Well there’s 1 Corinthians 7:2, “But since there is so much immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman her own husband.”
And there’s all the stuff Jesus said about divorce and how remarrying causes you to commit adultery.
So those would suggest that biblically, God wasn’t down with polygamy.
So to purposely impregnate yourself and then abort it is art eh? She said that it was a “myth” that ovaries and a uterus were made to only “birth a child” in her article where she explains what she did to herself during the past year. What else are ovaries and a uterus used for in the body???
But if that’s “art” then Hitler was an artist too.
I think that art student was doing this as a stunt and no actual conceptions took place. In other words, she wanted to shock …looks like it worked!
Polygamy - agree with what you said. The idea of young women being forced to marry men old enough to be their fathers - well this is not a female honouring society.
So those would suggest that biblically, God wasn’t down with polygamy.
Didn’t Isaac have two wives? I’m sure there were other patriarchs that went multiple - will have to look it up.
Lots of OT patriarchs were polygamists, including David and his son (the wisest man in the world) Solomon. But past the cross? Nada. Didn’t happen with God’s blessing!
Doesn’t stop those guys from wanting more, more, more, though, I guess.
J: Fair point. It’s interesting to speculate on the social trends behind this shift. Why is polygamy popular in desert cultures (like Patriarch-era Israel) but not in prosperous cities (like Jerusalem in Jesus’ time, and Greece when Paul was proselytising)?
My best guess is it’s cos polygamy creates a large population of guys who are Not Getting Any. In desert tribes, you can just kick those guys out and wait for them to Get Theirs due to dehydration, starvation, unexpected lions, etc. In cities and other human-friendly environments, they’re more likely to survive long enough to gang up and Get Medieval on your ass. Institutionalised monogamy is a pre-emptive defence against that sort of social trend.
Any thoughts?