There must be something in the water this week...
God's children are really playing up lately. I saw this over on stupid_free at LJ and I just had to share. Major props to generichotsauce for their spiffy little report.

There's an interesting little debate community called booju_mooju. It's a place to discuss/debate parenting technique and parenting issues, the name derived from the "Boob-juice VS Moo Juice" debate. Pretty neat little concept, really. Potential for wank? Enormous.

Little was I prepared for the fact that this wank would be about wanking!

YEARS after the story had gone around the net (old meme!) someone posts a scan of the newspaper story about those darned Vibrating Harry Potter Broomsticks. Most of the people there have a hearty (if belated) laugh at the concept of a kid riding a glorified sex toy. The original post poses the following question, however:

brandyc: What do you think? Would you take a toy away that you knew was being used for cheap thrills?

Renowned righteous virgin kat89 replies: Yes. I would take it away, however hilarious the whole thing is. :)

A curious stratyllis asks the innocuous question: Why would you take it away?

Says kat89: Because I'm of the belief that masturbation is never a good idea. It detracts from the intimacy that a person and their future spouse/significant other/lover will have in the future. Besides, the younger a person is when this habit is started, the harder it is to break later on.

Uhm... ha ha. Yeah. So, they politely discuss this idea. (That's showing way more restraint than I would ever exhibit!)
The more it goes on, it seems that kat89 honestly believes that masturbation isn't normal.

kat89: It's only normal because we have been taught by our culture that it is.

Doesn't that mean it IS normal? And what does she even MEAN by normal? Are we talking mathematically, socially, what? This is never expanded upon.

stratyllis, not happy with this, asks for hard, scientific evidence that masturbation is not normal.

kat89 quotes Matthew 5:27-28. She also adds that sex is not lust, that masturbation can detract from your sex life so one shouldn't risk it and that - oh yeah! Masturbation is having sex with yourself so if you do it when you're in a relationship, you're cheating on your partner!

stratyllis seemingly ignores this batshittery and simply says the following:

Sorry, the Bible isn't a valid medical source.

Fair enough, neither is Homer's Odyssey. But either way - BOOM! We're off!

ETA: As sharps so kindly reminded me, the original poster kat89 is indignant that people weren't more open to her opinion. So, in a community for questions about parenting, she asks:

kat89: So it's not OK to call someone else's beliefs stupid unless of course, they're a Christian.. then it's perfectly acceptable because apparently all Christians are moronic imbeciles?

After about 300 people give her a resounding "YES!" and "Yeah, whatever, take your whining to someone who cares" and "Is this even a parenting question?", she ETAs:

kat89: So all of the people who think there's nothing wrong with calling beliefs 'stupid' ... would you encourage your children to call other children's beliefs stupid?

From the last I saw, there were 410 comments for that post.