I just saw another short bit of TV news. One story was about girls in violent, all-girl gangs. With mouths agape, the reporters tried to answer the question, "Why are so many girls turning violent?" They interviewed an ex-gang member and some current gang members. The girls had very little insight to offer. The key question was never asked. "Where's your father?"
The second story was about George Clooney bringing attention to the genocide currently occurring in Darfur. Good for George, he's trying to help. The press were utterly lost as usual. No context, no mention of the Islamofascists doing the mass murder, no linkage to the wider war on militant Islamic terror. More of the usual tsk-tsk-tsking and shaking of bewildered heads by the reporters.
I wonder how many of the reporters were using crayons to take notes.
Its a hard lesson for the establishment to swallow, but even a moderately bad father is better than none. Of the many women I met in graduate school, by far the most damaged had either a dead father or a missing father due to divorce. Many were good little girls until fate too their male role model away. The girl gang issue is further exasperated by both parents being absent.
ReplyDeleteDarfur is genocide. Only the US has been willing to label it such. The lack of involvement by European community and the United Nations shows their cowardly irrelevance. They lose any moral high ground to criticize other conflicts when they refuse to even acknowledge that its genocide because then they'd be forced by their own laws to do something.
ReplyDeleteCan you tell this get my fur all out of place!