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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: E who wrote (42506)	6/29/1999 1:03:00 AM
From: nihil	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

I think there is a lot of racism in these decisions, and a lot of moral chauvinism. As you know, I despise the domination of children's sexual lives by their parents. If ever two people have proved they deserve to be together if they wish it is these. What she has given up to be with this boy exceeds by far what any lover should be asked to give. What he has given up to be with her is almost as great. I refuse to go an weep at Romeo and Juliet and still not shed a tear for these two star-crossed lovers. I personally am not much worried about his mother (who has no legal obligation to support his kids) or her ex-husband who must have been rather easy to leave. I would prefer if he could be allowed to help support all of his and her children. I would much prefer that she be able to teach to help support her. When our country is presided over by an adulterer, hypocrite and liar, why a woman whose only crime was love (her lover had been her student) and motherhood should be imprisoned and barred from her career strikes me as sexism of the worst possible kind. One of the reasons that I am sadly glad I had no daughter was that my beliefs and society's about the proper way to raise her would have clashed. I wouldn't have sold her into the sexual slavery of pre-arranged child marriage (as many human societies have and do). I would have given her as detailed and precocious sexual education as I tried to give my sons. I would have taught her that she was free to choose, how to protect and defend herself, and above all, free to select the persons that she wished to love. Perhaps it would not have worked out well. It sometimes does. My sister fell in love with an older man and was a child bride. They left this country when she was 16. It has been a wonderful marriage -- lots of kids (all graduates)-- he cared for her and she for him -- over 48 years so far. Strange, my parents both approved. They were obviously both deeply in love. He was going off to fight a war and she wanted to go to Japan with him to be close. Perhaps I depend too much on examples that I have lived and known. I still regret the way that couple has been treated by the law.