Chris' Lounge

In an age that is battered, if not defined by exceedingly bad behavior at the hand of some anti-socials, it pays to look back and remember what happened, so we can be a bit more forgiving of mistrust between individuals (depending on the situation and degree). First, I recall the Rodney King beating. Then I recall the OJ Simpson murder trial and surprising verdict… the attack on Nancy Kerrigan at the Olympic ice rink, and, The Robert Blake trial – to name a few. There are so many more examples in recent times that really give us a large list of men and women in the USA. But, if anything fell short of making men at large lose a bit of their confidence, Lorenna Bobbit is perhaps forever etched in the mind of the modern man of my generation, and the culprit for a gender assault that lasted and lasted; in some ways still lasts. She is a woman who cut off her lover’s/husband’s penis while he was sleeping. Need I say more about trust in the bedroom? Yikes!

Brooke Shields has used Washington’s pulpit to further causes, as many before her have. For Ms. Shields, it is her fight to battle her postpartum depression which became public when Tom Cruise publicly (I think) criticized her decision to use medication to remedy her ill. Tom’s answer for her problems may have been Scientology, as opposed to drug treatment, but he did not go so far as to say that out right and publicly. Maybe Tom’s criticism of her use of prescription drugs fueled her fire and so she acted to speak out against its epidemic proportions by her estimation. She could very well have been right.
The average male, Tom Leykis radio-listening majority will find both stars to be slightly out of touch, with their championing. Once in a while one need to be reminded that neither Brooke nor Tom are categorically, undeniably correct, for the practices of all of us. Those who do take prescription and those who do belong to a church must remember that they do it for their own wellbeing, however they define. And that, in turn, benefits the church as a whole community.