“Mattel has introduced an autistic Barbie doll to its Fashionistas line, developed in collaboration with the Autistic Self Advocacy Network (ASAN), to reflect common autistic experiences and invite more children to see themselves represented through inclusive play.” [Breitbart 1-12-26]
Oh, good grief. Play isn’t supposed to be “inclusive.” Play is supposed to be about fun. And imagination. Fun for kids is the equivalent of romantic art for adults. Romantic art refers to the Aristotelian idea of “life as it might be and ought to be.”
Art and play exist to LIFT YOU UP. When you start trying to make art or play explicitly “inclusive” or “exclusive,” you have departed the realm of art and play. Art does not exist to showcase malady or disorder; play is not a journalism or social studies project.
With sick ideas such as “Autistic Barbie,” you have entered a pitiful charade. You have entered the realm of politically preferred art. “This is what you’re supposed to like.” It has nothing to do with relief, refueling or creativity. It’s really about fostering dogma, repression, unearned guilt and neurotic anxiety. Children and adolescents today are already riddled with these mental maladies. Why on earth saturate them with more?
It’s bad enough when you pervert adult art, entertainment or sports in this way. But adults are at least free to choose or reject. Kids are not so capable of choice. That’s why it’s sick, twisted and even downright evil.
I know that most people understand, or at least sense on some level, the truth of what I am writing. I hope these words will give you the courage and confidence to state your own version of the truth.
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I wish leftists would explain: Do they believe not being a citizen gives you automatic moral and legal immunity from violent, predatory behavior? Or do leftists simply like violent, predatory behavior?
What exactly are leftists defending? What are they FOR? From what I can see, they do not value life, liberty, private property, individual rights or civility. Leftists seem full of mindless, unhinged hatred, and seem only to support destruction for its own sake.
What rational person could support any of this? What decent, honest person can claim that President Trump is just as bad or even worse? President Trump is the only high profile person in the government who doesn’t appear to be a sociopath.