Author: Ratko V Tomic
Date: 09:26:01 11/22/00
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>>> It can be taken as a reference to child abuse. >> >> By whom? A mechanical translator from English to Russian? > > By anybody that can read the English language. So when you hear, say, that Britney Spears is a flash in a pan, you understand that the subject of conversation is physical properties of hot pans with flashes in them? What you, or whoever whined to you via email, is _really_ objecting to is the plain factual observation behind the metaphor, that on average the step-children _are_ abused by their step-parents much more than are the children by their natural parents. Like it or not, that's the way things are. Just as with pans and flashes, the plain facts are that flashes don't last very long. At least it works so down here on real earth, below the high up in the clouds ivory towers of academia (or Hollywood), far away from their PeeCee speech codes and thought police. Obviously, some folks do not wish to be reminded of these plain facts (and many others like that), since they wish to convince the kids that all kinds of families are equally fine (as I relized by looking at my kids' "education," e.g. the "celebration" of the "gay month" at my kids' school, here in the People's Republik of Massachusetts), that traditional family which sticks together is no better than a "family" with two mommies or three daddies or with four times re-married couple, each with several kids from earlier marriagies. They are all supposed to be equally fine "alternative lifestyles." Of course, everyone (with his head outside the pink cloud) knows they aren't, but PeeCee dogma holds they are, and so you moderate when someone uses a metaphor reminding you (or whomever that whined about it via email) that it ain't so in the real world, but you don't moderate when someone reminds you of facts about flashes in the pan or anything else not contradicting the PeeCee dogmas.
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