Week 3: On The Double Standard

Laura Winslow, presidential candidate of the Slumber Party, is patting herself on the back for knocking Steve Urkel down after his horrible commercial scandal and becoming the leader in the opinion polls. But just as her time to celebrate came near, she had a little scandal to deal with herself.

Laura has been a firm advocate of renewing the Anti-Geek Trust Act of 1951. The Anti-Geek Trust Act, a law Steve Urkel and the Geek Party are totally against, allows government regulations on nerds and the inventions they create. Steve has personally had to pay a lot of fines due to his law.

"I think the Anti-Geek Trust Act does nothing good for the community," says Steve. "It shows discrimination to geeks everywhere and tells them what they can and cannot create."

The law has to be renewed every ten years, and in 1991, it was not renewed. Since then, many nerds across America, Steve Urkel included, have spent countless time creating inventions that basically got on other people's nerves.

Laura, as well as Bachelor Party candidate Eddie Winslow and House Party candidate Carl Winslow, agree that the law should be brought back. "I have seen my house, my energy, and my blood pressure become ruined all because of Steve's inventions. If that law has still been in effect for the past ten years, I don't think I would have gone through half of the things I went through."

But while Carl and Eddie are off the hook for their beliefs of the Anti-Geek Trust Act, Laura was put on the spot by it during an interview of Natural Birth Monthly Magazine.

"The fact that Laura is fighting for the Anti-Geek Trust Act just shows that Laura is a hypocrite and setting double standards for herself as well as for the Slumber Party," says Lena Heckler, a writer for Natural Birth Monthly who interviewed Laura.

During the interview, Lena asked Laura if she in favor of bringing back the Anti-Geek Trust Act to which Laura said, "Absolutely. Nerdy inventions have hurt the economy, order, and integrity of this country. I think every product from an invention from someone like, say, Steve Urkel of the Geek Party, should be forever banned."

Lena then attacked Laura on the issue. "How can you be against something that created your boyfriend?" she asked, to which Laura did not have an answer to.

Lena Heckler is referring to the fact that Laura's boyfriend and first gentleman of the Slumber Party is Stefan Urquelle, who would not even exist if it were not for Steve's inventions of Boss Sauce, which exerts Steve's "cool genes", his transformation chamber that allows Steve to change into Stefan, and finally Steve's cloning device which allowed Steve and Stefan to be two completely different people.

Steve had a lot to say on the subject. "You're right, she is very hypocritical," he says. "It was fine for us to make inventions when they meant her personal gain, but other than that, they are horrible. If she thinks we are not allowed to make inventions, then she shouldn't be dating a genetically altered clone."

Maxine Johnson, vice presidential candidate for the Slumber Party, tried clearing up to the matter. "Stefan is an exception to the rule. When we want to use the Anti-Geek Trust Act, we don't want to stop things like Stefan. We want to stop things like UrkelBots and time-travel devices, and devices that allow you to read other's thoughts. These types of inventions bring a lot of ethical concerns to the people."

However, as the Anti-Geek Trust Act allows to stop any kind of invention made by a nerd if approved by the Senate, the devices that created Stefan could be banned. And the general public, including writer Lena Heckler, believe that someone going against something to the public, but dating someone from it in private, shows a double standard.

"You can't say, 'I want to stop all inventions except for the few that benefit me'," says Lena. "She either has to be for or against."

Since then, Laura has changed her viewpoint and said that even though she still wants to have a law similar to the Anti-Geek Trust Act back in place, that maybe some revisions can be made to it.

Stefan Urquelle, the man in the middle of the fight, had no comment.