Magnum opus

  I watched the first episode of the new season of the Israeli Wife Swap, in which a stupid woman from Israel named Dina Barda was 'swapped' for a gay man from New Jersey, who raises three African-American children in a Reformed Jewish religious home (and I would've called him an excellent parent, had he not circumcised his children. For fuck's sake, you're reformed! Haven't you ever heard of Brit Shalom?!). She expressed the most disgusting thoughts about homosexuality, religious Jews, and even black people, out of sheer ignorance. Therefore, I now write a short allegory that explains my views.

RAVEN WINGS

  Long ago, in a forest somewhere in India, or America, or wherever you find more sensible, there lived a community of ravens. They lived there for centuries, teaching their children the traditional raven walk, and the raven cry, and most importantly―the raven flight. Proudly they flew above the earth, making great shadows upon it with their thick black wings, crying aloud to all critters: 'Ka―h! Ka―h! Ka―h!' Indeed, a proud lot they were.

  One day, a little raven of about 15 raven years of age was flying around the forest. 'Ka―h!' Ka―h!' he cried, still celebrating his newfound masterhood of raven flight. He flew around, watching his big shadow on the ground, smirking to himself.

  'Ka―h! Ka―h! Ka―'

  Ow! In his euphoria, his left passed to closely to a local branch, several of his feathers getting clutched in between, getting plucked out as he flew away. 'OW!' he cried in sudden pain, landing on a nearby tree and examining the damage.

  'Oh Kot, my precious feathers! My wing will look horridly uneven now! Oh dear, oh―hey, this isn't so terrible, really... My wing feels a little lighter... Hmmm, I wonder if my flight will be the same...'

  He tried flying back to the branch. It wasn't so bad; it felt somewhat uneven, so he tried removing some feathers off his right wing as well, which wasn't as painful as it was now self-inflicted. When he tried flying again, the unevenness was gone, but he still couldn't fly just right. That, however, was just a matter of practice.

  Returning home after he'd removed several more feathers, content with his new discovery, he imagined how intrigued and happy his community-mates would be. Of course, all of his hopes were not to last; his community-mates were utterly shocked by the sight of his wings lacking half of their fine silk-black wings.

  'What is the meaning of this?!' Asked his mother.

  'I found a new way to make our flight much lighter!' Said the youngling in excitement, still unaware of his mother's resentment.

  'What?!'

  'Look! With less feathers, our wings can be much lighter, and―'

  'Not another word, young lad!' She abruptly stopped him. 'This is a great offence to us all, are you aware of that?'

  'What? Offence?'

  'Indeed!' said the old mayor, frowning upon our poor protagonist. 'What on earth were you thinking, plucking your precious wings like that?!'

  'Those are my wings, you know!' he said, now beginning to grasp the situation. 'I can do what I will with them!'

  'What?!'

  'And look at this!'

  Here he flew above the crowd, right below the sun, casting his shadow upon them. 'By Kot!' everyone exclaimed, gasping.

  'See? This makes the shadow of my wings lighter. That way we don't have to block the sun entirely for the critters and just scare them, we can be helpful to them with refined wings!'

  'Nonsense!' The mayor said. 'Why are we to help the critters? We're ravens, for Kot's sake. We're independent. We should, if anything, be intimidating towards them!'

  'But why? Why must we be intimidating? What good does it bring?'

  'You stop this silly arguing at once, young lad,' said his mother. 'Go home.'

  He obediently though discontentedly followed his mother, who was somewhat calmer now that she new her son's feather's would grow back, back home.

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  A little boy was walking by the forest, playing on his own, as he often did. He was rolling a little metal hoop with a stick, and had his reflexes not been sharp enough to move it aside on the last second, it might've run over the little raven sitting there.

  'Oh, Kot! Look at that!'

  The raven was not an ordinary one. Its reflexes were fast enough to hop aside from the metal hoop coming towards him, but he didn't fly away from the child. Not only this, but his wings lacked some feathers.

  'Would you look at that! Hehe, little fellow, what's your name?'

  'Ka―h!' said the raven as he climbed the boy's finger. The boy was pleased with it, and gently stroked its head.

  'Hehe, you're a special one. I like you. Want to come home with me?'

  'Ka―h! Ka―h!'

  'Heh, I'll take that as a yes. I'll name you Kaw. Now come along!'

  The boy ran home happily, with the raven, now Kaw, following him home.

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  The raven went on living as a grumpy old defeated rebel with the young boy till the day he died, withering away into oblivion. The heavy-winged raven community lived on many centuries after.

An Cat Dubh, 1.9.09

  Now, let us debunk the stupid myths the idiot Dina believes in:

• Homosexuality is a perversion: Not since 1973 it ain't. That's when homosexuality was taken off the DSM.
• Same-sex parenting is unnatural: If it were unnatural, why were eagles and penguins (and bonobos, if memory serves me right) spotted practicing it?
• Same-sex parenting is harmful for children: Oh really? Because here's what I found on a simple stroll to the English Wikipedia article 'LGBT parenting':

In 2006, an Amicus Brief was presented to the Supreme Court of the State of California, wherein the American Psychological Association, American Psychiatric Association and National Association of Social Workers gave their opinion that scientific research has consistently shown that lesbian and gay parents are as fit and capable as heterosexual parents, noting that researchers have concluded that lesbian mothers do not differ from heterosexual mothers in parenting ability and, while fewer studies exist on gay men and parenting, research suggests gay men may be similar in parenting ability to heterosexual men.^[18] This opinion is also held by the Canadian Psychological Association and the Australian Psychological Society,^[19][20] and there is no national professional organisation in these countries or Europe that holds a different opinion.

 

Research has documented that there is no relationship between parents' sexual orientation and child's adjustment. ^{[18][21][20][22]} The literature indicates that parents’ financial, psychological and physical well-being is enhanced by marriage and that children benefit from being raised by two parents within a legally-recognized union.^[18][21][22]

  So no. I do not think that legitimising that disgusting woman Dina's opinions is an example of 'freedom of expression'. It's more like the freedom of oppression. Hopefully that idiot will serve as a good example for what opinions one should not hold, but considering how many people said 'They deserved it' about the Bar-No'ar massacre, I can't be very optimistic.

  Unum diem...

  (P.S.: That religious bloke who came to Israel wasn't very smart himself. He should've relied on the Pittsburgh Platform §4 instead. Oh, and Bow-Boy will write a post about the episode once part II airs. Stay tuned!)