possible jail time for allowing/permitting/defending (rather than forbidding the relationship), is proof-positive that the white, male, powerful politician-Joseph Dee Morrissey-is obviously under and afforded pass to abide by a totally different set of rules that do not apply to him.
Even despite [the possibility]-let he and Myrna tell it, and the fact-[let Myrna’s family tell it], Morrissey slept with a (then 57 year-old) 17 year-old girl, it’s obvious that the different set of rules [a man like such abides by]’s onus, accountability, and punishment for the crime is being put on the mother (slash) legal guardian of the (then) minor (slash) victim who permitted it, allowed it, and “defended it” (as per the family statement).
To me, a 17 year-old turning 18 and (by law) officially being considered “an adult” is no different than a 12 year-old turning 13 years-old officially being considered “a teenager.”
The fact of the matter is: a 13 year-old, today, who was just 12 years-old, yesterday, is no more ready to wear makeup and date men than an 18 year-old today who was just 17 years-old yesterday is ready for the world today.
No way in hell.
Especially considering the scientific fact that full front lobe of the brain’s hemisphere (responsible for decision-making ability) isn’t even fully developed until around age 26 or so.
Considering that fact alone, regardless of America’s systematic setup of bureaucracy [and then on to] business: (free school from pre-K to 17 years-old being the limit and then on to the business of college beginning age 18) is supposed to be representative of being an “adult” in preparation readying for the world because a system says so 18 doesn’t make them necessarily ready for the world any more than an 18 (or 19) year-old “woman” is ready for a 57 year-old man. America has a business to run-that it feels even its 18 year-olds need to start contributing to. So although 18 is far from an actual “adult” (by experience and indecision) it’ll “grow you up” fast, too. How you turn out (or how your experiences turn you out) all becomes a game of survival of the fittest.
Given the scrutiny (and fact) of his being a seasoned old man in a relationship with an under aged girl, it obviously sounds sick and disgusting that such a man wouldn’t even (at least) have the respect or decency to marry the girl before impregnating her with a child born out of wedlock.
But according to reports, this is not the only time he’s had children out of wedlock-so obviously, the object of his sick, Thomas Jefferson-Sally Hemings fantasies who ‘makes him a better person’ and ‘makes him laugh’ is all self-serving to him.
However, be that as it may-as I stated in the beginning (and again, excluding their ages-in considering my gripe with that in all I just said/explained three paragraphs back) the fact of the other matter is (aside from Jim Morrissey and Myrna Pride):
- that young man dating that old/older woman
- that old/older man dating that younger honey
- that white, black, or man of color dating that exotic/foreign babe (that looks nothing like his mother)
…is no different that Jim Morrissey choosing not to do what’s politically and socially “correct “acceptable” [and instead is] satisfying his purpose or pleasure—just like all the bulleted examples above.
All above-bulleted are just typically more “accepted”-tolerated at bare minimum. As, still, all above-bulleted (typically) have nothing in common with her too-other than (like Morrissey) “she makes me laugh” and “she makes me a better person” (and every other basic excuse or reason he gives). And I’m sure you know what I’m talking about.
It’s just that given the history of slavery in conjunction with Morrissey methodically putting a literal picture of the reminder of what the time looked like (+ the fact that like Thomas Jefferson, white men in slavery days did sleep with their slaves), it’s not socially, or politically correct for a 57 year-old white man to be in a relationship with a 17 year-old African American woman:
The seasoned one knows exactly what the hell the history was and what his relationship looks like in the eyes of America.
The other is unseasoned and merely naïve (probably with a mere basic understanding of slavery) with no idea what went on behind many-a-closed doors of white slave masters with their female house slaves
In those same days and times, there were real-life “Misters” and ‘Celie’s’ too: Old black men ‘choosing’ a wife (for his purpose and pleasure).
As Myrna and Morrissey’s situation pertains to America-considering their ages, their races, their experiences (in conjunction with the literal picture he put on it), it merely magnified their Thomas Jefferson/Sally Hemings-like situation that, under a different set of “tolerable,” accepted circumstances (as bulleted above) is really no different than the men (in the bulleted examples above-listed): Purpose and pleasure over the commonality where (pretty much-if truthful) the reasoning for all above bulleted will have reasons (for being with the other) is mostly centered around purpose or pleasure over commonality.
Over here, at Other Side of the Fame, I don’t knee-jerk writeup about important matters like such. I’m not just a “blogger” with a “team” of other bloggers reacting with emotion based on surface situations and circumstances involving a story.
As writer, an author, and a publisher who went to school for journalism and who-(more importantly, where life/love/relationship matters are concerned); I look at all sides of a situation…not just the situation handed to me and then from there–half-cockedly emotionally react.
Typically, there’s always more to it (and it’s usually a mirror-if not our own lives, a mirror to the lives of others doing the same exact thing facing that same mirror we tend to give knee-jerk emotional reactions to). So weigh everything. Consider all things. Not just a/the one thing-almost never.
(5.31.15 UPDATE) And here’s something else:
Sometimes, as a writer/blogger, when I write up from several sources and it doesn’t necessarily require video footage, I’ll just
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