Entitlement. Such a strong word with a harsh connotation. After a week of hearing people bitch, whine, and complain about various "First World Problems" I feel compelled to tell the world, that American have a horrible sense of entitlement.
Yup, I said it. I know this post may garner harsh criticism, but its the truth. Take the recent SCOTUS opinion which allows closely-held companies to deny coverage for certain types of birth control. Yeah, I get it people, you think its a large step backwards for women. Its not. Its simply saying that companies like Hobby Lobby can as a company decide what types of birth control methods it will provide insurance coverage for. Its not saying they can deny all, its not saying the hate women and think we should not be able to control our reproductive decisions, the opinion simply gives those companies the right to choose. Funny too because Hobby Lobby does provide its female employees several types of covered birth control.
Second, the young lady who attends Texas Tech and chooses to trophy hunt. It is her right, her choice and yes what she does provides money and food in a third world country. And who are you to judge? Let it go people. You raise hell over her pictures with animal, yet you do not raise hell over young women posting pictures of themselves pretty much naked in their Facebook? I call hypocrite.
And lastly, to the people in California who protested and refused to allow women and children to arrive at a facility to hold them, shame on you. What happened to land of the free and home of the brave? And I ask you, where did you come from? Unless you are of Native American decent, you were an immigrant at some point as well. These women and children are fleeing harsh conditions, warfare and hunger. Yes, they arrived here illegally, but to protest and deny them a safe facility to be processed at? I see your side of things, they are criminals who entered our county illegally, but what you did was an embarrassment. Protest for harsher laws, more security at the border, but to scare the buses enough for them to turn back? Shame on you.
As we celebrate the Independence of our nation tomorrow I ask you to remember a few things:
If you don't vote, you don't get to complain. Until you have walked a mile in someone else's shoes, you do not get to judge. And until you have read and researched a SCOTUS opinion, don't make yourself a lawyer.
Bravo! I commend you for this past - which some of your readers will undoubtedly disagree with. I have been seeing rampant ignorance in regard to the SCOTUS decision all week and it makes my blood boil. People just don't know the facts, and instead, are jumping on the whole women's rights bandwagon and vilifying a company for reasons they don't even understand. This truly wasn't a women's rights issue in the first place - it was an issue involving government overstepping its bounds and tramping on the rights of private companies and institutions. People think they can say anything they want when it comes to certain issues - women's rights being one of them - but that doesn't excuse idiocy.
ReplyDeleteAs for the hunter girl? Listen, I could never shoot animals (just not my thing), but I'm certainly not going to condemn her for it or try to take that right away. Ridiculous. Some of the feedback she has gotten has been so hateful and malicious, it's shocking. There are many other terrible things this girl could be advocating (i. e. Drugs and sex like Miley Cyrus) and yet, this poor girl makes the news? We live in a messed up world.
AMEN Sister!!!! I couldn't agree with you more on every stance. I certainly am not a fan of the hunting big game but I also have a choice to keep scrolling and mind my own business. If people make her take the pics down it becomes a very scary place when we lose freedom. The poor women and children who have no place to go and are in cell like facilities break my heart. Who's not to say that many of these women or kids wont grow up to do great things for the US! I keep thinking of Mathew 25:40- For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I needed clothes and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and you did not look after me.
ReplyDeleteSo well said, girl!
ReplyDeleteYour opinion is right on point. People who are complaining about the decision of Hobby Lobby denying just a few types of birth control because it violates their religious beliefs have to remember the organziation is and has been Christian-based business and no one is forcing anyone to work there. If you don't like their rules, find another job.
ReplyDeleteAnd I know people may disagree with me, but I would bet that most of the people who are upset about the ruling are not married women who would like to have birth control so they can be intimate with their husbands and not have children they cannot financially support. My guess is that they are single or unmarried women. Whatever happen to encouraging women to NOT have sex until marriage?
Bravo! The entitlement of people these days drives me insane. I'm glad I'm not that only one that feels that way.
ReplyDeleteYou are wonderfully, fabulous and I love you so much!!!
ReplyDeleteI totally agree with you and Jess' comment!!!