LSU is Romping; ATVS is Poorer, Lucky to Be Alive

I perhaps make it sound worse than it was. I did roll it over, but the car was moving very slowly at the time. It rolled over because it ended up on a pretty steep decline going into the ditch. The car didn’t collapse or anything. Still, I don’t think I’m ever going to forget rolling the car over.

Welcome to the board. Let’s just say that 7th Heaven’s “moral family” is not exactly a unanimous conclusion. Lots of people think the show was obsessed with sexual ethics to the exclusion of all other moral considerations, and played into a patriarchal paradigm that didn’t respect young people’s rights to make their own choices. Put more simply, it practiced a “because I said so” teaching model that doesn’t go very far, and was utterly obsessed with making sure its young women stayed chaste, or at least if they weren’t chaste, they paid dearly for it. But I digress. The show was terrible. Tyler Hoechlin was no better than anyone else on the show. And now he’s a scholarship baseball player. Good for him. And good for television that that show is gone.

Hi Jeannie. I didn’t know it was you until I checked the member list.

Anyway, to explain that a little better, I don’t think all the “lessons” of 7th Heaven are really worth learning, and I’m not the only one who thinks that. I think it failed to teach a comprehensive morality and instead focused all of its energies on one or two issues to the exclusion of all else. In its own way, despite its “family values” image, the show was just as sex-obsessed as most other television shows aimed at kids and teens.

I’ve never owned a car that had more than 4 cylinders, or that got less than 30 mpg highway. I’m definitely not going to start now. I’ve also never owned an automatic transmission, but I think that preference will have to give way now.