Rainbow Party

I haven't watched television for at least seven years. Sure, I watch tv at friends' houses, while visiting family, or in the obnoxious public place with television. I also watch shows like The Daily Show and The Colbert Report online and some great shows like Deadwood on DVD, but I don't sit and watch the television for a few hours in the evenings like I did way back. I've missed out on Reality TV and it doesn't bother me. I haven't seen The Jerry Springer Show since the mid-90's and I think my world is a better place for it. And I've never watched Oprah.

Imagine my surprise when I'm told of this thing called a "rainbow party" that was described on Oprah. My first thought was, "This sounds like the kind of ridiculous crap my friends made up in early high school. Shit so stupid that only people who had not had sex would think it could possibly be a real thing." Then I heard it had been on Oprah so I did a quick Google search and sure enough, the richest woman in history is no smarter than a pubescent high school kid.

Is this what America has become? I don't for a second believe this is a common practice if it ever occurs. Seriously, do you remember any boy from your high school days that was well liked enough to get head from multiple girls at the same time in a deliberate manner? That hardly even happens in porn, much less real life. But apparently this kind of hysterical crap can get on Oprah and then enter the collective subconscious... of the people that watch television.

Some people are having sex sometimes and most people aren't. That's as true for kids as adults except that kids that are having sex are probably having more of it than the adults that are... having sex. This may bother a lot of adults (a lot) and they will then tend to believe that kids are actually throwing "rainbow parties" as opposed to making them up and then pretending they know someone that had one or threw one.

Sometimes I'm convinced that the world really needs a super fast and powerful virus to knock down the population just to keep us from becoming a world of blithering, television soaked idiots.