When you start to see a number of articles, with similar headlines all pushing towards one overall theme, it sometimes can’t help but be noticed. And it has already been noticed that interracial couples are now the mainstream for advertisers, despite it not being the majority in any part of the UK at this time. The latest, still with use of interracial couples, is for spouse sharing, and apparently the encouragement for it or for people to start thinking it will be a marital boost or something, I didn’t feel the need to read the articles as I don’t subscribe to The Guardian which is where I think they mainly occurred. Because anything that is published and pushed to the forefront by MSM has an agenda, even if it is just simply to sell newspapers or subscriptions, it has an ulterior motive than just passing on or sharing useful information or opinions. People get paid to have them, so you need to always question if that information is really aimed at helping or genuinely advising people, and most of them time you can come to a very quick and short answer of no.

Not that you need MSM articles to see that something has gone very wrong with people, particularly it seems the paring up and partnership aspect. With deviance being promoted at every turn, all sorts of drugs available to suppress your natural instincts, a murky world of internet dating and porn, as well as financial struggles putting an enormous burden on people with stresses and strains not conducive with being stable and emotionally focused. There seems to be much talk online of people in the up to 30 age bracket, who can’t afford kids, can’t afford to move out of home, or have ended up extremely isolated and don’t have any prospects of even meeting someone, let along being to do anything about moving up that ‘family ladder’ we are biologically programmed to seek. I can see why there are lots of frustrations and sadness occurring around that. Either being held back or held down for so long during your life, is a certain type of cruelty, and one that is bad enough as a child, waiting to ‘grow up’ in the eyes of the law, in the eyes of society and by the rules set, whether you fit with them or not. But now, it’s almost as if those rules have been extended well into your adult life. With the general infantilising of the population as discussed in Holding Us Back, and after years of articles aimed at people about feeling guilty for being alive, don’t have too many children, are you killing the planet? Well, not towards everyone, there does appear to be opposing headlines depending on what ethnicity they happen to writing about. And that too has been noticed.

But when it comes to sharing partners, that is not new thing, wife swapping, swingers parties, and threesomes for example. Not that it was deemed ‘socially acceptable’ to everyone and wasn’t usually openly discussed so much when I was growing up. Now it seems everything is to be discussed, and looked at, whether you want to or not or have an interest or not. Where what used to be called private and behind closed doors is no longer so, and you are now seen as weird if you don’t want someone else’s sex life and personal desires ‘shoved down your throat’, for want of a better saying. Where it seems like part of their desire is to have everyone know about it, or for some strange reason, it becomes their entire personality, both men and women, and straight and gay. Although in recent years it has been all about being gay, with a whole month dedicated to it, marches and parades, merchandise and what not. It’s become quite the spectacle, and not very savoury on the eyes in any format. But that in itself doesn’t really bother me personally, if I don’t want to see it, I don’t go, and I am not forced to view pictures online, so don’t have to see it. But to have that kind of inner desire and wants, so publicly displayed, is of interest. Why people want to do that, I presume it’s because part of their desire is to have observers to it, where your participation as the viewer gives them an extra thrill, that clearly cannot be obtained ‘behind closed doors’.

And the overall competition between men and women generally has become a rather strange arena, with a possible alternative to women being pushed in the technological and AI circles, covered in Robotic Affection and A Robotic Future. As well as all sorts of other category changes, new definitions and laws, mostly not in favour of women, a word now quite under discussion with many people suddenly unable to define it, explain it or even recognise it. Yet in the past decades, it has been very well defined for purpose, with the suffragettes, the feminist movement, women and equal pay, women’s rights and so on, all very much centred around women, who seemingly made changes within those areas. However, it’s all gone rather wrong as discussed in A Strange Affair, Competing for Top Spot and Who’s Got the Biggest… where it doesn’t seem to matter whether you play by the rules or try to understand the set-up, because as soon you do, they change the rules, move the goalposts and rearrange the set-up. And I don’t doubt there are many people who partake in what we call ‘alternative’ relationships, and find their way to these things because that’s what they are or what they like, not because an article was written about it. But perhaps they might think that gives the green light to indulge or puts the idea in a mind where it shouldn’t have been, who can know for sure how many people have truly been influenced by merely an article, because someone somewhere said it was true. Fantasy and reality usually seem so very separate most of the time, but around this subject, people really do like to blur the lines…

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