random babble…

Renee had asked me a long time ago to please keep blogging about Roseanne, and it feels appropros w/ it being the 20th anniversary of what may be the greatest and least appreciated contribution to pop culture.

Every now and again there is a Roseanne marathon on a certain channel that a certain girly blogger buddy of mine and I will occasionally catch.  This week I happened to catch this episode, which happens to be another favorite of mine.  One, b/c I really really really believe that sex education and the topic of birth control is so important for parents and schools alike to cover, and Two, b/c it is so freakin’ funny.  In this first clip (link here, in case the video gives you trouble), I love that Rosie and Dan are honest, funny and frank about sex and their children.  They are smart enough to know that they know they can encourage abstinence, but that they should prepare their children as well.  My favorite line (they start talking about it around 3:00 in) is when Roseanne says “she doesn’t need our permission”.  It’s true.  Whether you believe it or not, our children don’t believe that they need our permission to engage in sex, and we should consider ourselves lucky if they believe in us enough to ask us about it.  They are individual autonomous beings, and they are going to find a way to do it, whether we think we are clever enough to stop them or not.  We should at least be clever enough to realize that their health and safety are more important than our ability to control them.  Video after the jump.   Continue reading ‘Finally! Another Roseanne Post!’