Rant #2,983: Gimme Some Truth

Good morning.
 
I am back at my usual weekday perch today, and everything went fine while I was away.
 
And to top it off, today I am 65 and five months years of age, if one celebrates such things.
 
I usually don’t—one birthday a year is sufficient for me—but I just happened to look at the calendar, and there it was, so I figured I would bring it up to you.
 
I bring it up because I was born into a world that does not exist anymore.
 
I was born into a world where certain standards—personal and otherwise—were accepted, and people did the best that they could to meet them.
 
Today, our standards are as low as the bottom rung on a broken ladder, and we simply accept too much as being “normal.”
 
And everything—and I do mean everything—is political.
 
Now, even buying a car has turned into a political statement.
 
Have you seen the latest Toyota commercial?
 
It has nothing to do with purchasing a car, and at the same time, it has everything to do with purchasing a car.
 
It is a commercial that proclaims that the company is pro-gay, with the LGBTQ flag unfurled and present during the entire commercial, and way more prominent than the American flag, which is only seen for a split second.
 
Now for a foreign-based company that really only cares about the green, why is this commercial coming out now, during Hispanic Heritage Month and not during the period where some of our citizens parade around as if they were in their own personal Disneyland?
 
I haven’t the slightest idea, to be honest with you.
 
Toyota has evidently come out with gay-oriented ads in the past—one clearly featuring a gay couple buying a car—but this is the first time they have put out an ad where their cars are not featured at all during the minute-long ad.
 
It is their right to support whatever cause they want, but again, since when did buying a car have anything to do with one’s sexuality?
 
And why is the viewer constantly being assaulted with these beliefs?
 
You see it in more and more in TV commercials, where the advertiser conveniently sneaks in gay images into commercials—some subtly done, some not—for everything from the newest drug to take to quell whatever ailment you have to ads touting jewelry and even fast food.
 
Maybe I am being an old fogey about this, but to me, one’s sexuality is their own personal business.
 
I really don’t care about one’ sexuality at all, and my displeasure with the ad, and other event ads like this, has nothing to do with the gay community; it has more to do with the pandering being done by Toyota and other concerns related to this subject to reach the ultimate goal ... which is to get your green whether you are gay or straight or whatever you want to call yourself.
 
If you are a good person and handle yourself the right way, you can be any sexuality you want to be.
 
But today, everything is in your face, you are being forced to look at sexuality in a different light, simply because … well … you are being forced to do so, now even when you purchase a car.
 
I really don’t think most people really care about who one chooses to sleep with, but we are being forced to care because everything today is riddled with such politics.
 
Some subjects are better left alone, but the current generations believe that everything should be out in the open, and they have no shame about parading around this subject, and hitting you over the head with it.
 
It is not just this subject that has hit be bottom rung of our society.
 
Just look in your Yahoo News today—which, unfortunately, is the only news that many of us get during the day—and you will see numerous supposed female celebrities who celebrate one thing or another by putting up nude or semi-nude photos of themselves.
 
Today’s list includes Gwyneth Paltrow—celebrating reaching the ripe old age of 50—and Shania Twain—celebrating  her latest music video release.

And I can give you a short list of such female celebrities each and every day, who don't want you to look at them, but kinda do.
 
We have other celebrities talk about being raped at an earlier age, and some other sordid stories are right there on your daily feed ... putting coverage of the impending Hurricane Ian story to news oblivion.
 
Is some supposed celebrity posing nude really that important in the grand scheme of things?
 
It is about as important as a car company which has been rife with problems during the past few years declaring that they are “one” with the gay community.
 
Sorry, people, our standards are really low now, and no, this is not the world I was born into.
 
And that isn’t a political statement from me--that is a fact.