Self-love or self-destruction?

   Written by Sean Tyson

I am twenty-one years old. The TV shows I watched when I was 5-12 years old, would always emphasize the importance of being yourself. A very appropriate message for an audience whose self-identity is in its most turbulent and vulnerable stage.The tragedy today is that the entertainment and even the education system for our children is instilling an idea of self-denial, self-hate, and nihilism. 

     The “Muppet Babies” is a children’s TV show. We all know the Muppets. In a relatively recent episode, one of the characters, Gonzo the Great, wore a dress and identified as “Gonzo-rella.” The producers actually thought having one of the characters wear drag was an appropriate plot point for a kids TV show. 

     CNN published an article titled “Nonbinary characters like 'Gonzo-rella' are lighting up children's TV and encouraging self-acceptance.” Does “Gonzo-rella” and archetypes like him, actually promote self acceptance? No. Humans are physical beings. The human body develops from a tiny zygote to a fully developed adult that can eventually produce a family. Nature’s plan is God’s plan. Our bodies have purposes, they have functions. Our flesh is corrupted, but our eyes perceive, our DNA organizes and structures, and our lungs breathe. We’ve observed these operations.

     What about our thoughts? The human brain is an organ just as the heart or liver is. The brain can have diseases and psychological disorders. The brain can observe the natural world and deny it. An anorexic person can look at himself and say “I am obese.” Are fully functioning adults supposed to accept that they are obese? No, they are not.   

     We should not endorse the self-denial and self-hate of children. There is evil and destruction in promoting or strongly hinting at “gender fluidity.” Destroying the bodies of children through “gender affirming care” is at its definition destructive of the human body, the genesis of which is the destruction of gender norms. The “left” doesn’t stop at the aesthetic or superficial. No, they want total control over human existence.

     Humans know that they have human biology. We’ve willingly praised human desire and vanity over order. We can no longer live within the parameters of God's creation so we must cross the sea of oblivion, regardless of those who are swallowed as the walls of reality collapse.