Thursday, June 09, 2005

Baby Goes Back

via obscure store (see sidebar): oh. my. god. The story is bad enough. The photos will never leave my memory.  It’s about time somebody put baby in the corner.

Why the hell do these people get the bank? And this is his/her/its *dream*. Day-am. Do you just KNOW what I would do with 1.5 million?
What. A. Waste.

That was quite a shocker for a Friday morning, the only thing I’ve stumbled over that comes close is this - a 50 something year old Peter Pan (sans diaper).

goodness.

okay… that is just seriously WRONG on so many levels…

wow...just wow

I would ask the above what is wrong on so many levels? But I fear I may be wasting my typed words.

ok let me step back and explain myself open minded view in another way.

So many people hide and conceal the fetish that makes them whole or at least feel complete in some shape or form. From the person who loves the smell of leather and wearing leather to say the person that sexually can only get off when the smell of leather is about.

Even if you think this person is wrong, it actually takes alot of guts to come into the open and know you will be laughed at.

I mean lets face it lifes short enough and if it helps this person float his own boat then cool.

All things being equal and all that jazz.

Just my 2 cents worth as you say:-)

Craig, you have taken the time to express empathy, which I respect, so I’ll tell you the first five things that I find upsetting about this. 
1.  He disclaims this as a sexual fetish - it’s a choice of lifestyle.  He’s celibate, but likes to eat tasteless mush and wet himself.  If he were getting off on it, I’d understand somewhat; it seems he just can’t face life otherwise, and I find that inexplicable and very sad.  But you could say that of transsexuals, too, to an extent, so:
2.  Highly unsanitary.  Training oneself into incontinence till you wind up with diaper rash?  The rash is nature’s clue to learn to control yourself.
3.  His “24/7” choice deprives him of most human contact because he’s too disturbing and often too smelly to deal with. Shopping, socializing - he can’t do it as himself, only as an infantile alter-ego that offends most people, who deride or avoid him. I consider that sad too. 
4.  He is wasting talents.  He’s articulate, musical, clearly has much to offer the world, but prefers to live in a crib and wet himself.  Sure, that’s his choice.  But I am always saddened when I see such wasted lives. 
5.  The weirdest thing for me is, he’s not acting as himself as a baby - he’s a baby girl.  He’s seeking not to play a role but to live as something he never was and never can be, an identity that is by definition a transient state on one’s way to personal autonomy.  He’s thrown away his own self so he can live an utter fantasy of abdicated responsibility. 

I would never say he has no right to do what he does.  But that same civil liberty vouchsafes to me the right to be disturbed by it to my deepest core, and to say so publically.  Given that, Craig, I do sincerely thank you for giving us the other side of these considerations.  I’m not persuaded, but I’m glad we can show both sides of the issue here at the ‘hut.