chocopain [none/use name]
Theater. This happens every few years. It is high drama for political junkies. In the end, the military gets more money and things chug along as before. It is quickly forgotten.
Yeah it’s kind of fuzzy because it was a while ago. But come on, it was implied. You don’t corner a woman in an elevator at 4am and then do something like that. She felt threatened, and that’s all that mattered. She posted on her blog about it and was viciously attacked by these supposedly liberated-from-the-shackles-of -Christianity humans who reacted the exact same way Christians would.
Isn’t this why they arranged for Gaddafi to get a knife shoved up his ass?
And why they invaded Iraq in the first place?
I think at heart, they’re just people who greatly enjoy pissing on other people’s treasured values. When Christianity was the norm, they pissed all over it with a great deal of glee. Now that the shine’s come off Christianity and social justice values have made great strides into our lives, they piss all over that, too.
Atheism/what-have-you isn’t a positive ideology, it’s a negative one. It’s not about what you should do, but what other people are doing wrong. And what’s that saying about people being wrong on the internet?
Verhoven picked up the novel, read about five pages and threw it out of the window. He wasn’t interested in the least in actual science fiction. And Starship Troopers the novel is definitely science fiction in the proper sense of the word. It is legit literature.
Instead, he made a “parody” movie that most people didn’t get. But hey, at least we got the unforgettable image of Doogie Howser, SS. Yay?