Bias

Ok, so I have to admit I'm becoming a bit of a CSI junkie. I don't know why. I guess I just like the whole mystery thing. Really, it is a rather mordbid show. On the other hand, being a public health nut you'd think that I'd like NBC's Medical Investigations. Ugh! No way! The only time I watched the show I sat there the whole time aggrivated with the inaccuracies and unrealistic nature of it...I'm getting off topic...

The reason I bring up CSI is that there was something about the episode last night really bothered me. The victim in this episode was a man that had a sex change operation. During the investigation they discover that he was engaged to be married. They visit the bereaved fiance and find out that he didn't know that the woman he was supposed to marry was really a man. You see, he didn't believe in extramarital sex and his fiance never let him in on the little secret. Come on! People who choose not to have sex before getting married are neither naive or stupid! Why is it that TV and movies always portray us that way? I'm tired of it. I know too many people that have fought so hard to avoid sex outside of marriage to see them portrayed as idiots. We've made a concious decision to live a life that we think is right. Each of us has different reasons for it. But it is a sacrifice we choose to make. Why belittle that? ARG!!!

I guess maybe they possess a bias because of the general public's insecurity about the issue. It's like in junior high when the other girls make fun of you because your intellegence intimidates them (junior high was a painful experience). Hollywood can't understand why someone would put intentionally choose to turn away from the self indulgent lifestyle that it perpetuates. Eventually they'll learn.