I've been complaining about the subjects that artists on DA choose: girls with large breasts; barely dressed women; just a few pieces with girls with tasteful clothes on.
And when I get shown posts about Caitlin Clark, and how they were rough with her during the playoffs, she always responds with: well, it goes to show how tough a game basketball is, and I had to grow into it, etc, etc.
That's class.
Some people don't like that sort of gentle speech. They say: no, let it all hang out; say what you mean. Be sincere.
That gentle speech, what is it? That's the Christian teaching. I've told everyone, I'm not a believer; I try to rein my agnosticism in when I write fiction, and my characters are all spiritual, in the sense that they behave as though there is an eye in the sky that's watching us. Even if there isn't, many people—a great many people—choose to live as though there is a limit on how horrible we can be, without penalty. The penalty is self- imposed; it's our conscience.
A lot of people like to get others to accept religion, because they fear what 'godless' people might do to them. Well, it looks a lot like there are some religious people who are perfectly okay with shooting others, or stringing them up. All you have to do is watch Trump talking on video, and his (desire for) retaliation is not at all restrained. The courts want to send Trump to jail. In contrast, he wants to kill people. (His apologists assure us that it's just Trump being threatening, or being funny. I'm very doubtful. There could be another motive; Trump likes to attract people who like violent retaliation to vote for him.)
If Caitlin Clark ever loses her way of talking gently, with restraint, about women who have been clearly brutal with her, I think it would be a very sad thing, a tragedy.
Kay
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