Orig­i­nal Sin

A sur­vey of Catholic con­fes­sions is out. A 95-year-old Jesuit scholar looked at which of the seven deadly sins are com­mit­ted most fre­quently. Among men, lust took first prize, with glut­tony com­ing in sec­ond. For women, pride was the big­gie, fol­lowed by envy. The pope’s per­sonal the­olo­gian told the Vat­i­can news­pa­per that “men and women sin in dif­fer­ent ways.”

I kind of always knew this but it’s nice to have a study come out and doc­u­ment it. Espe­cially liv­ing in the uber-superfucial, (does that make it super super ficial?) sin-tastic city of Los Ange­les, I am fre­quently made wit­ness to the sins of both men and women.  No where bet­ter is this more evi­dent than at a Korean Club like Vel­vet Room or Le Cer­cle. You have old rich men drink­ing way too much chas­ing girls way too young. And you have young Korean girls giv­ing the stink eye to any Korean girl they think is of equal or more beauty than them­selves. And you’d think these girls would be nice to the girls they per­cive as uglier but that is not the case either. These girls shun the less pretty like Brit­ney Spears avoids tal­ent. As if ugly was a dis­ease that was con­ta­gious and could rub off on your own beauty. And finally, you have old Korean women, who should have got­ten out of club­bing years ago, eying the young Korean girls with envy. …ahhhh, the Los Ange­les Korean night scene. I love it.