I watched some of Andromeda this morning and it was all about the women -- the place they hold and how important they are to Dylan Hunt and to the universe. I think that Roddenberry's torch has been passed to a strong, intelligent, and informed woman. I'll even bet that Nurse Chapel didn't get controlled or silenced by her husband. She was, after all, the mother of a natural telepath and telepathic herself.
I do believe that Lwaxana Troi wasn't as sex crazy as she was portrayed. Must have been Harvey Weinstein's approach to women -- that they are only good for a quick tumble on their backs that had more to do with Troi's libidinous attitudes and morals. I cannot imagine that telepathic women would be so immoral and openly libidinous.
I think telepathic women would be horrified and disgusted if they read males' minds. When I was younger, I thought it would relieve the fear and stress that comes when women meet men and don't know what the man wants -- or should want. I know better now.
Men want sex -- all the time and with anyone they find attractive. That is fine for homosexuals because men want sex all the time and be attracted to the guy with a face and body like the one you hope to have or already have would be simple. It wouldn't work for procreation, but it would satisfy most male instincts. Of course, the fatties, baldies, and flaming types would lose out, but they already do. After all, it is according to the current Muslim belief. Men are for sex and women are for breeding -- keeping the homosapien species alive.
I would call foul on that belief -- and so do the Muslims since they behead homosexuals and those who practice that belief either hide in mountain fastnesses or sneak out in western cities and countries to the nearest gay bar. How can anyone live with himself or herself if at your core you are attracted to men and women when it is a beheading offense.
Then again, choosing your own path or becoming an adherent to a different faith will also get you killed. Why do you think Muslims force women to hide their bodies and faces? Can't have the faithful taunted and teased by a breeding cow when you have work to do and dollars (or money in whatever form) to earn.
I am an intelligent and informed woman, but I was only fantasizing about Islam and their Persian myths and magic when I was a child. I grew up, but I still find magic fascinating. Not so much any more. Magic is nothing like Jeanne from the series I Dream of Jeanne. The series also got the spelling wrong. It is Djinni and not Jeanne. But I am no longer a child and maybe Mom was right when she thought that all I wrote in my diary was sex: wishing to have sex, wondering about sex, or at least blaming her because I couldn't have sex.
She read my diary, ferreting it out from where I hid it, and later Beanie let her have access to the years of journals I left behind in her care. Mom read them all. I was upset at first, but then I realized that I had written nothing Mom couldn't read -- not even my questions and wondering about religion and god and the occasional question about mom -- but it wasn't about sex; I already knew all I needed to know about sex. I wasn't having any of it and didn't want to let myself go that far. I was ungettable, but could be coerced (raped) or seduced mostly with kisses and caresses.
Mom was quite surprised and I think a little disappointed that she wasn't the central focus of my journals. She didn't figure that much in my writings. My writings were more about the nature of god and the real reason behind what was written and I was taught in the Bible. I'll bet she was very surprised that my thoughts were on a more philosophical plane and sex wasn't on that plane. Ha!
Although men think almost constantly about sex (and so did I when my hormones were at their highest levels), sex isn't that important in the end. Some women grow out of that phase and move on. Men are horn dogs and just don't move out of that phase unless they are so libidinous as not to be able to think or act without sex as the focus -- like Weinstein. That is what got Clinton in trouble -- his inability to be around women without wanting to have them (or rape them when his power wasn't enough of a seductive draw). That's why homosexuals are beheaded in Islam -- because they cannot be controlled when sex is in the mix. If a man has sex on his mind all the time, he is a danger to the rest of the community, especially men (or at least young men who haven't yet gotten their beards). Better to behead them than to lose the whole community or the whole congregation in the end. Suddenly, I get the reason for beheading homosexuals. There is no such punishment for lesbians, unless I am sadly mistaken. Men do not usually find lesbians threatening. They find lesbians titillating and want to join in. Sex with women is not forbidden. After all, the man might find his penis in someone's vagina and 9 months later that vagina attached to the poked woman will increase the number of hopefully men -- or at least a comely male child that can be trained to fight and behead other homosexuals. I think I finally get the whole thing.
In Judaism and Christianity, homosexualism is a sin, but it doesn't result in the sinner's immediate beheading. Death comes after years and God decides when that is. Supposedly, the sinner will burn in hell for all eternity -- a hellish punishment but only after a long life of sinning and flouting the laws God gave. I think I like that kind of punishment. Put off today and reap punishment in the end.
Or be a Muslim and reap punishment now -- beheading. I think I get it -- at last. This is why I meander and think while I write -- I figure things out.
In Islam if you cannot control them behead them or cover them with a hijab. It is still control, but beheading is a much more final method of control.
That is all. Disperse.
