identity crisis!
Posted on 02/01/2005 1:34:24 AM PST by The Loan Arranger
"The so-called sexual revolution is not, as advertised, a liberation of sexual behavior but rather its reversal. In former days, even under Victoria, sexual intercourse was the natural end and culmination of heterosexual relations. Now one begins with genital overtures instead of a handshake, then waits to see what will turn up (e.g., might become friends later). Like dogs greeting each other nose to tail and tail to nose."
Walker Percy, The Last Gentleman (1966) Nineteen sixty-six, the year in which Walker Percy's The Last Gentleman was published, is also the year I entered as a first-yearman at the University of Virginia. We did not stoop to the State U level of referring to ourselves as freshmen, sophomores, and such—not at "The University." We were all men at U.Va.—"gentlemen," we were told. Young women visited on weekends from Sweet Briar and Randolph-Macon, Mary Washington, and Hollins College. But they did not stay in the dormitory or the fraternity house. They stayed in college-approved housing, more often than not the home of a widow who had a few rooms to let and happily accepted a delegation from the colleges to assume the responsibilities of in loco parentis.
Parietal rules were enforced even in the fraternity houses—self-enforced by those of us who lived in them. Young women were not permitted in the bedrooms and had to be out of the house by a certain hour. We dated, blind-dated often. We did not know what "hooking up" was. We had never heard of date rape either, though some of us may have committed it.
(Excerpt) Read more at christianitytoday.com ...
I read the whole article - it will be ignored by the MSM of course.
I am not that far removed from the college scene. Hooking up was rampant at my very, very famous southern school.
In short here is a primary cause: the fear of being labeled 'anti-social'. If you are labeled that in college, it WILL hurt your future career, esp if you somehow managed to get into a fraternity or soroity.
Being 'social' means you never get upset about anything, and you NPR sing-song voice is perfectly pitched, regardless of the strain of the social situation.
What the vast number of kids are totally ignorant of is the New Testament, and specifically the attacks against the Pharisees within it. That is the core of the current fight. The 'rules' are there all right, such that later, when they are parents, their ability to exercise authority of any kind is minimized.
It is a kind of Weirmar Germany ... just a different set of rules.
A fine article by Dr. Guroian. If you haven't, I highly suggest reading some of his books or other articles. They're hard to find, though, since he writes about things that are very "unfashionable" in today's society. And I can tell you that he truly lives the lifestyle about which he writes...I've known one of his children for years.
Very long read in the original, but very good. As a school nurse, I hope to pass this information to my parents so they realize the dangers ahead!
Yes, it is the fault of radical feminism and declining moral values. But what these women don't even realize is that they've made themselves sexual objects and nothing more. If anything, the so-called sexual revolution and rise of feminism have, in fact, set this generation of women farther back than anything before.
The unfortunate outcome looks to be a generation of young people who have no clue how to relate to each other except in a sexual way. Talk about a huge evolutionary step backwards.
Thank you, excellent article.
" Yes, it is the fault of radical feminism and declining moral values."
No. It is the fault of radical masculinization of women, and worse, the effeminazation of men.
In short, you don't have to recruit men to become 'gay', if the women they are hooking up with share the exact same attitudes toward sex the men do. Homosexuality among men gets a lot of press; the erasure of heterosexuality between men and women is being deliberately suppressed.
One other thing. It is not the fault of women one bit this is all happening. It is the fault of men, 100 percent. We are readily built for conflict. But we fail to engage. Men have made room for all this nonsense.
Homosexuality, rabid feminazis .... they are the mold in a fridge that has to grow given the neglect of what manhood really means.
And what is step one of being a Man? Not being a slave to your 'equipment'. That is why the article effective states what they, the males, are labeled: "guys".
That is not an accident. They really are guys. But they are also simply chicken s**ts. Why? Because the playground, where fights were once common, are filled with the sounds of ..... quiet.
Guys don't fight anymore. They rent Fight Club, and pretend they do.
Guys don't bleed anymore. They rent 'Kill Bill' and pretend they know what blood looks like.
Guys don't cry anymore.
Guys don't grieve.
Men, on the other hand, seek God. Men protect women. Men fight.
Not everyone is equipped to play this hooking up game. To me this points out how the college environment reinforces the liberal mentality of "you're nobody unless you're gettin' you some."
I wonder how Christian teens do when they leave high school and go off to college.
This is one of the most radical notions in today's society, and maybe the primary reason the left has to be destroyed. The myth that we are nothing more than animals and hormones or instincts, if you will.
Men, on the other hand, seek God. Men protect women. Men fight.
And this is the solution. Perhaps what the author calls Gentlemen.
But, you know what they say, nice guys sleep alone.
identity crisis!
According to surveys, not very well. Close to 80% of kids raised in the Church leave their first love for temporal stuff.
Sin looks good for a season......
Excellent article, and your points are true, too, gobucks.
My daughter had to move out of the dorms at one point because she couldn't stand sharing a room with another girl - and that girl's "date" of the moment. They would simply parade in and get down to business in the twin bed about 5 feet away from my daughter's bed.
I now live near the University of Florida, where the sorority girls are referred to as "sorostitutes." This is because they are literally call girls for their fraternity "big brothers," who simply pick up the phone and call in a sorority girl whenever they want, sort of like ordering a pizza.
But the kids I have met here through GOP activities tell me that it's very rough for people who don't have that mentality, because they are made to feel like misfits and losers. One of them told me that girls did heavy drinking (swilling vodka straight out of the bottle) so that they wouldn't mind or remember the other things they were going to have to do that night.
"One of them told me that girls did heavy drinking (swilling vodka straight out of the bottle) so that they wouldn't mind or remember the other things they were going to have to do that night."
This is consistent with the reports I have heard, and what I witnessed. In effect, booze is sort of a required medication in order to endure being 'cool' all day long on stage, and worse, endure being 'in' at night. There were very, very few folks I encountered who honestly CHOSE heavy drinking b/c they really liked it. It was simply the ticket they had to punch, and evidently still do.
What was new for me to really think about was how the co-ed dorm scene is actually fueling more drinking. Not b/c again it is all that great ... but because the women know, if they don't drink, they will not be 'in'.
"sorostitutes" .... wow. That's a new one.
"According to surveys, not very well. Close to 80% of kids raised in the Church leave their first love for temporal stuff."
If my Sunday School ciriculum is any standard to judge, then it is no mystery why. Our kids are simply not challenged sufficiently in my church.
I have noticed this among college men. Twittery, chirpy--upward inflected at the end of a declarative sentence? Every statement a question? Statements turned into questions as a plea for approval and tolerance?
Ick. It's like swishing and wrist-flapping, but these are heteros of which we speak. speak?
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Natural law will not be denied. At some point, men will be forced by circumstances to manifest their God-given attributes. Those who cannot/will not will not survive.
You've just defined modern feminism.
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