Dose of Massive Creepy
Grown women playing with dolls and pretending they are real. Even going to far as to take them out to the park, etc. Ew. Just ew. Massively creepy, ladies. (Link goes to MSNBC, be warned)
I don’t have religious objections to these dolls but I think they are wrong for almost all of the reasons Nightfly cites in his rant.
One of the big lies of modern culture in the West is that if your life isn’t easy, you’re doing it wrong. It’s hard to really raise a kid, so forget it! Never mind that our parents worked really hard to raise us. But people now demand the rewards for having accomplished hard things without daring to attempt them. They often don’t stop to realize that the accomplishment IS the reward, and is thus inseparable from the long struggle to master the required skills, and then the effort to put those skills to use. And much of the satisfaction from enjoying those skills comes from knowing that they didn’t come in a pill, but were honed through hard work. The little red hen went through a lot to learn how to bake, and then to gather her ingredients and prepare her bread. We are much more like the cat, fox, and pig than the hen, however, and would rather accuse her of being unfair than bothering even to help – and perhaps run the risk of learning how to bake in the bargain.
Well, there’s no profit in the path of least resistance, and changing reality to suit our broken nature rather than seeking healing is a dead-end snare. Even what we think we have will be taken away – in this case, those who seek “only the good parts” in fact get none of the good parts at all: no first words, first steps, first days of school, learning to read and ride a bike, never the joy of knowing that you are the most important people on earth to one fragile life who needs you, and no joy in the finished product, when they leave for their own adult life and (all being well) continue to rely on you – no longer from need, but from love.
Emphasis added. That statement applies so well to so many things in our modern life.
