Dear visionaries,
Bill Jameson argues that if he found the sight of a bare breast caused him to consider being unfaithful to his wife, then he would examine the depth of his commitment to the marriage — and he would not place blame upon a woman who chose to bare her breast. But then again, he concludes, he’s not a trinitarian.
And again, amen. A man who was physically unfaithful to his wife because of topless car washes had to have had an egg-shell thin commitment to her in the first place. But we are talking about something else. Many husbands who are physically faithful to their wives want to disrespect their wives and other women through letting their eyes just help themselves. They think it is just “a little thing, no harm done. It was just a once over” — the kind of thing that exasperates many women constantly. I was talking about those men who want to avoid disrespecting women in such “little things,” and who very much appreciate those women who respect themselves and who show it in how they dress.
Another issue in this has been the bugbear of “selective enforcement.” And so, while we are on this topic, it would be nice if everyone in favor of affirmative action, quotas, racial class actions, or reparations for slavery — form of selective enforcement all — would, while we talking about Lady Justice being blind, in the interests of simple propriety, and look how many commas I got, just sort of not contribute for the time being. The inconsistencies would be too apparent, and even more people might see them than currently do. Men and women are different, and it is not selective enforcement for the law to recognize this.
“Apologetics in the Void” are repostings from an on-going electronic discussion and debate I had some time ago with members of our local community, whose names I have changed. The list serve is called Vision 20/20, and hence the name “visionaries.” Reading just these posts probably feels like listening to one half of a phone conversation, but I don’t feel at liberty to publish what others have written. But I have been editing these posts (lightly) with intelligibility in mind.