From now until the elections in November, I plan to pair up various Congressional candidates with their most likely BFF from around the world. I hope to provide humor on our candidates as well as to shed some light on their less humorous counterparts who may be more successful in their campaigns.
Todays pairing is Christine O'Donnell, America's darling from Delaware and Bambang Bayu Suseno, an Indonesian legislator from Jambi. Both are very concerned with what the youths of their nations are getting up to (or down to!), and have been rather vocal on these points.
Christine O'Donnell made a name for herself during the 1990's and early 2000's promoting the idea of chastity, noting that even masturbation was a form of adultery. And all this time I was just concerned it might lead to blindness! Her crusade against extramarital-sex eventually became a crusade against sex in the United States, with her voicing in 2003 the admirable goal of stopping the entire country from having sex.
Bambang Bayu Suseno, however, isn't concerned with young men having sex. No, instead he is concerned only with young women having sex (so is it ok then for young men to have sex with each other?). Obviously, he's really just concerned in ensuring students are going to school for the sake of learning and bettering themselves, and taking their studies seriously; but seems to think that school and parental supervision is so lax in the province of Jambi, that in fact children are going to school for the day long orgies.
Suseno poses the question “'Why are girls who lose their virginity allowed to go to public school,'” and indicated that this was a chance for children to take control over their sexuality, since supervision by others had become almost non-existent. Well sir, I would like to ask why are boys who lose their virginity allowed to go to public school? After all, these teeny-boppers have to be getting down with someone!
Control over your sexuality should mean knowing when you, yourself, are ready, able, and willing to have sex with whomever you choose. This heinous breach of basic human rights, basic decency, brings to mind the India rape test. How, for example, does Suseno even suggest implementing this "mandatory test." Why are we once again burdening the woman with this out-dated notion of honor, and subjecting only them to penalities for affronts to this so called honor. When will it be an "honor" for a man to remain chaste? Heaven forbid a young girl has been molested, now society can further ostracize and shame her; a society that she would be dependent upon as her rights to an education no longer exist.
Christine O'Donnell and Bambang Bayu Suseno, I suggest you begin a book club together, beginning with The Scarlett Letter.
