Month: February 2006

Family values. I hate that term. Whenever someone uses it, the listener is supposed to automatically know what is being discussed. It's one of those feel-good terms that is basically meaningless because, well, it has no meaning. How can any intelligent person expect to coin a phrase like "family values" and expect it to fit all families? I think it's just a propaganda term churned out by the radical right/religious fundamentalists to further their cause against us Commie liberals who believe a woman should have a right to say what happens to her body, that all people should have the right to marry, and that legalized murder in the form of the death penalty is still murder. There is an inherent meaning to the phrase that implies there is just one model of family, that in which the male is supreme and the female inferior. If there is a hell, then surely it exists here on earth, in a family where the...