Conservatives are doomed to long for what they think is history

I’ve heard it said that the past is foreign country. The thought occurred to me a little while watching the Ryan Murphy version of the Mendendez brothers case, and then screamed at me while watching the Netflix documentary afterward.

I remember reading that one woman at the time (early 1990s) said that a man can’t be raped. He doesn’t have the requisite parts. Every man who sat on the jury in the initial trial did not believe that the brothers’ father raped them. Every woman believed the boys. 

Some dumb bitch recently tweeted: “It’s really fucked up that prostitution has gone from being relegated to the most desperate souls in dire straits to an average college girl who wants disposable money for a designer bag - how far have we fallen as a society to let this happen and to enable it as if it’s normal.” As if temple prostitutes, Geishas, and high class hookers of all sorts have not always been a part of the world’s oldest profession.

It’s ironic that the most xenophobic people are so desperate to turn their own country into an exotic locale about which they know absolutely nothing. 

Erik and Lyle Menendez were ready to die at the hands of the state rather than admit publicly that their father had raped them.