Ban Family Groups Before They Ruin Australia
“The state must declare the child to be the most precious treasure of the people. As long as the government is perceived as working for the benefit of the children, the people will happily endure almost any curtailment of liberty and almost any deprivation.”
- Mein Kampf, Adolf Hitler.
In recent years family groups and lobbyists seem to have upped the ante in terms of demands for things to get banned. They’ve called for all sorts of things to be banned, junk food advertisements, television shows, food colouring and even the proposal of an internet filter to make the internet safe for the children.
As an 18-35 male with no kids living in Australia I have to routinely put up with proposals from family groups wanting to ban things I, as a non-family person might be interested in.
Yet go and try to tell a parent how to raise their kids and they’ll scream bloody murder at you. No seriously, I was at Coles the other week and this kid’s shoe lace had come undone. Not wanting to see an accident I told the parent browsing the shelves about it and she barked at me that ‘her kids were none of my business.’ I just sighed extremely loudly and walked off, secretly hoping her kid fell down and smashed his face into the floor just so I could run past and shout ‘I TOLD YOU SO HA!’
That never happened.
I did think about pushing the kid over myself when she wasn’t looking but decided the defending against the child molestation terrorist charges that would follow probably wasn’t worth it.
It is quite acceptable in society for parents to tell people to sod off when it comes to their children but for some reason the inverse isn’t true. The government will mostly try to bend over backwards to please family groups to curtail the freedom of the people who actually keep the country afloat.
Some examples of what family groups have lobbied to have banned have included:
Movies: Quentin Tarantino’s new Nazi slaughtering movie ‘Inglorious Basterds’ has been recently flagged after “a family lobby group called for the film, which has been described as extremely brutal, to be denied classification.”
So you don’t want your kids seeing extremely brutal movies? WELL DON’T FREAKING TAKE THEM ALONG TO SEE THEM! This will no doubt get an MA rating which means under 16′s can’t get in without an over 16, if cinemas aren’t policing this then that’s their problem, go after them and don’t’ ruin it for the rest of us.
If your kid is over 16 and can’t distinguish reality from a movie then you’ve failed horribly as a parent. Maybe you could try gardening for a hobby, it’s a hell of a lot cheaper.
The big Internet debate currently raging in Australia is over the proposed Internet filter. A mandatory ISP level internet filter in the process of being trialled and is being justified on the premise that it will “harmful and inappropriate” for children”.
Technical issues aside, nobody except the government will actually know what’s on the list – can anyone say ‘wide open to abuse?’ What business is it of the government if I decide to watch some hardcore japanese tentacle rape porn which is perfectly legal… once again, if you don’t want your kids running amok on the internet either supervise them or don’t let them use it. Why should I have to suffer because parents don’t know what their precious angels are getting up to online?
Hardcore Japanese tentacle rape porn is a god given right.
Now I admit the photo in the news story is rather raunchy but presumably the model is 18+ and apart from the fashion crime (were people really wearing jeans with braces that make you look pregnant back in ’06?) I don’t see what the problem is here. Kids know all about sex these days and there’s not much you can do about it. I have my doubts over children’s lives being ruined over some advertising.
Calls for Channel Nine’s new series Underbelly: A Tale of Two Cities to be banned have begun.“The Australian Family Association said the show was “pornography” and inappropriate for its 8.30pm time slot. If you are trying to show that illicit drugs are a driver for criminality, why lump the whole thing with pornography? This isn’t soft porn, it’s pornography.”
I’ll tell you why, because sex and pornography are enjoyable. All you family groups realise that in order to have kids parents have to have sex right, and if it’s IVF well some guy somewhere still had to masturbate to something. Just because your sex lives came to a grinding halt after you all had kids doesn’t mean the rest of Australia now finds sex repulsive and inappropriate.
Thankfully this stupid proposal fell flat on its arse.
Maslin beach in Adelaide, “the nation’s first legal nudist beach”, was under threat after “the state government expanded the urban growth boundary near the beach, opening about 400ha to possible residential development.” MLC’s Dennis Hood stated:
Maslin Beach is a beautiful scenic piece of the coastline and it has been said that at times you can see dolphins close to the beach. Why
should SA families, especially those living close by in these new developments, be denied its pleasure in the name of pandering to the outdated nudist practices of a few?”
A proposal was put up for one of the two nudist beaches in Melbourne, Campbells Cove beach which has been nudist friendly since 1985, after the council wanted to go ahead with a “$2 million plan to turn it into a tourist destination”. Wyndham mayor Shane Bourke insisted that “This is not against nudism, it’s about making the Werribee South beach precinct family-friendly.”
I don’t know what’s worse, going after nudists or converting one of just two nudist beaches in Victoria because families feel they have nowhere else to go to the beach along Victoria’s 2000 kilometers of coastline.
Even boogie boards aren’t safe after a woman’s “knee was shattered when she was knocked over by a wayward boogie board rider.”
Honestly, why not just charge the idiot that can’t control their boogie board with assault… oh that’s right, because the majority of boogie board users are CHILDREN. Much better idea to ban the boards and ruin everyone’s fun.
Other ridiculous calls for bans in the name of protecting poor downtrodden families have included bans for food colouring, homework, automotive bullbars, soft drink advertising, adult shops, cartwheels, camping and motorbikes.
When is enough going to be enough?
Hey family groups, on behalf of the people of Australia without kids here’s a list of things I’d like to see banned;
March 23rd, 2009 at 7:49 pm AileenWuornos(Quote)
Hahah, while your ideas are good in theory – the practice of them would sink decent Aussies like you and & I down to the same ridiculous level as family lobbies. Imho they’re mostly religious groups with “children” as their interest, which also imho interferes with the seperation of church and states.
not to mention their idea of ‘family’ is outdated, heteronormative and sexist.
February 11th, 2010 at 8:25 pm jeff(Quote)
I watched the gradual moral decline in all areas of society for 50 years and as a health care professional Ive seen many troubling side effects of our so called progressive society.
If you like what you see , then that says it all.
I have children and I like to feed them good food and positive human experiances, not mindless violence and perverted sexual behavour as so often shown today.
February 12th, 2010 at 12:16 pm ozsoapbox(Quote)
Whilst I commend you for not being just another baby bonus dropkick parent, what makes you think you have the right to deprive other adults of mindless violence and sexual behaviour?
By all means parent properly and restrict your own kids exposure to such things but damned if you’re going to restrict my access to it.