Our "Anything Goes" Society?

 

     Our society's applauding the Bruce to Caitlyn Jenner gender transition,
A majority in favor of the nationalization of marriage equality,
     LGBT education for our children pre middle school!
Anything goes? Let's take a look and see.

     While for a long time older men with younger women have been accepted,
Cougars, liberated ladies, are now "behaving" the same,
     Today, we draw the PC line at selective protection of the kiddies,
For what most recently Josh Duggar and Dennis Hastert have been branded with blame.

     At the same time, we push the embrace of the Internet ever younger,
Growing lives awash in "plastic" and "porn" in so many ways,
     The more sex and violence polluting our "must" media, the better,
Slippery slope contours shaping how nascent generations will conduct their days.

     Logically, exposing a child to anything he or she is not ready to handle,
Can be as damaging as inappropriate physical contact between and adult and a boy or a girl,
     When we label one underage abuse and the rest an evolution in "normal," we're as confused...
...And complicit as those against whom pejoratives we currently judgmentally hurl.

 

 

Karen Ann DeLuca