"My generation created the sexual revolution--wrecking lives of women ever since"

Thank you for posting this. Times were more innocent just 40 short years ago and it is so easy to forget.

Of course, Hobsbawm blames Capitalism for all the ills of the 20th century. The sexual revolution, as destructive as it has been and continues to be, was but one barb of many attacks on the family, and those attacks comprising one prong of attack on “the establishment.”

The plan, by the communists/socialists/collectivists, was to destroy the established culture so that, in the vacuum that would ensue, they could come to power.

So Hobsbawm, the “distinguished historian” like most revisionists, contradicts himself even before he’s out of the gate.

Lady, you wrecked a LOT more than just the lives of some gullible girls, you also helped to bring about the demographic demise that will very possibly take down Western Society (and Asian, for that matter). As we’re seeing with Islam, where the males dominate, the society thrives (in an evil way, in their case...but they are growing and expanding...we are shriveling).

Hope she isn't a boomer when she says "My", because everything in the sixties was done by the previous generations, none of it was created or led by the kids, the very oldest one of which did not even place his first vote until 1968.

Abortion for instance is purely a creation of the pre-boomer generations, it was 1984 before every boomer was even old enough to vote in a presidential election, they had nothing to do with legislation and Supreme Court decisions and government, and institutions until long after feminism and abortion.

Here are the NOW founders at their forming in 1965, that was the year when boomers ranged in age from 1 to 19, no one in this photo is that young.

Very truthful article, but a hard sell—and not just with the left. Some of the uglier facets of the sexual revolution get plenty of support among self-described conservatives.

Good article. I think it will be very difficult to undo the damage that was done.

We now live in a tawdry and sad society. People are so busy having "fun" that they seem oblivious to how unhappy they are. Of course, this becomes a cycle: their unhappiness drives them to have "fun", the degradation of the "fun" makes them unhappy, so they go do it again, hoping to feel better.

We let go of God and lost our compass.

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Good gosh that looks like Helen Thomas on the far right hand side.

Who knew it would create so many cat owners?

We let go of God and lost our compass..

Yup.

Very truthful article, but a hard sell—and not just with the left. Some of the uglier facets of the sexual revolution get plenty of support among self-described conservatives.

Thank you for saying that; it needs to be said, and repeated often. I shudder at some of the messages I read here that seem to celebrate what you have just described.

I read other articles about Martin Amis and his sister. Alas, the third of Kingsley Amis’s golden imps suffered a sad fate. However, I think he’s letting his Dad off lightly. She was sadly neglected by her father so she bounced from one abusive relationship to another and she inherited her father’s curse of alcoholism. I really cannot see how her life would have turned out differently if, for instance, she had lived in the age of Dickens or Boswell.

You can’t finger the sixties for this one. It would have happened in any era.

As for Suri, I’ve read in other blogs that she nagged her mother into letting her wear those high heels.

In which case, that should give us a real reason to pound Katie Cruise (nee Holmes) for not exerting her maternal authority (can only lead to trouble).

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Obama Says A Baby Is A Punishment

Obama: “If they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby.”

It sad to report that it never would have happened if WOMEN, as a group had decided it wouldn’t happen.

Here are the NOW founders at their forming in 1965, that was the year when boomers ranged in age from 1 to 19, no one in this photo is that young.

In 1965, I was 10 years old. In Jan 1973, I was yet to turn 18. How is it that I am held responsible for Roe vs Wade. When it was decided, I had yet to be able to vote at all...

the infowarrior

Yep!

IMPACT OF HOMOSEXUALITY, FEMINISM AND PC ON THE WEST

I believe it was the EARLY Romans who prohibited several classes of people from holding public office: Those of illegitimate birth (bastards), eunuchs and homosexuals. (That unfortunately changed leading up to the fall.)

While these children had no choice in the matter, bastards were prohibited because, having no sense of their family past or history, they could not be trusted to operate for the good of the culture based on its history or traditions.

Eunuchs (castrated males) and homosexuals because they could not and/or would not sire children and would, therefore, most likely have no abiding interest in preserving the culture for future generations.

While there are a number of exceptions, I’ll let YOU tell me what sort of folks we have in public office HERE today.

It appears that America has employed technology to compress into slightly over 240 years what it took the Romans over 2,000 to achieve — total and utter cultural collapse.

I believe the Romans would also have put radical feminists in that group – had they permitted radical feminism at the time. Wisely, they did not. More on that a bit later.

While channel-surfing recently, I stopped for a moment on an Animal Planet show featuring two lesbian roommates. And, no, they were NOT in the bedroom. As I watched, I began pondering the question of the growing impact of homosexuals and radical feminists on our culture.

None of these thoughts are original to me and all have been written about and discussed ad nauseam. This little rant is really an exercise in catharsis.

At the individual level, I have personally known a few homosexuals and, in general, have found them to be quiet, respectful and intelligent. Again, there are exceptions – such as the moron from California (where else?) cited below — but I haven’t personally met them and hope I don’t as there would be serious trouble between us.

Having said that, I fear that the homosexual – and the recent politically correct fervor to further legitimize that lifestyle – has done irreparable harm to our NATIONAL life and what remains of what many of us still call Western European Culture. When that impact is coupled with the rise of radical feminism (you’ll be pleased to know that the EQUAL RIGHTS AMENDMENT is again being disinterred), the product is a result from which the West may never recover.

Allow me to explain:

The physiological fact is that homosexuals normally do not reproduce. The current population replacement rate – the rate necessary to maintain the current native born population level — for the United States is somewhere north of 2 children per couple. Homosexuals usually don’t HAVE kids. Add the radical feminist impact – which holds that motherhood is some form of slavery and has driven many women to seek “fulfillment” OUTSIDE the home — and the current birth rate here is disturbingly FAR BELOW 2.1 per couple.

The other side of the demographic coin is that the virtually unrestrained immigration policies of past administrations have brought a huge influx of people from cultures radically different from that which existed here prior to the advent of PC, diversity, tolerance and all the other names by which many now call these self, nation and culture identity destroying behaviors.

Add the millions and millions of illegals who are now placing such a physical and economic burden on the healthcare and school systems that natural born citizens are being taxed to death and/or cannot, themselves, get the services to which they would otherwise be entitled. It’s a recipe for chaos.

And the politicians – who hope these new welfare recipients will support their perpetual reelection — turn a blind eye.

And as these groups agitate and campaign for THEIR particular flavor of diversity and tolerance, they also give added traction to virtually EVERY OTHER flavor. As they change millions of minds and cause others to reconsider long-standing and time-tested value systems, they are turning our world upside down.

The effect of these factors is that the America in which many of us older folks grew up is disappearing at an alarming rate. As the nation many of us came to love – and donned uniforms to defend – drifts toward some sort of Balkanized
despotism, large segments of these new arrivals – who know little and care even less of the traditions, values and history of this place and even refuse to learn the common tongue — separate themselves into ghetto-like enclaves where outsiders are often not welcomed unless they’re spending money. We run the very serious risk of repeating the experiences of the former Yugoslavia from which some of my people came.

Speaking of whom, my great-great grandparents waited for years then stood in long lines at Ellis Island to be deloused, interrogated and told they had to learn English and our history and traditions and pass a test – something the Hispanics and radical Muslim terrorists strolling across the border with Mexico don’ t have to do.

The Clinton administration – well known for its tolerance of the gay lifestyle – published some statistics in connection with AIDS that startled many. Of course, the PC then rearing its ugly head prohibited all but the brave from commenting on any of that.

The CDC statistics showed that 85% of all AIDS/HIV cases are
1. Active, non-monogamous homosexuals,
(the largest subset)
2. Heterosexuals and bisexuals who have had sex with group 1 and
3. IV drug abusers who share needles.
(Kinda gives new meaning to Romans 6:23, doesn’t it?)
The remaining 15% are those who have contracted AIDS via other,
non-sexual/non-drug means SUCH AS TRANSFUSIONS OF TAINTED BLOOD (which one homosexual “leader” on the West Coast URGED his fellow homosexuals to CONTINUE to attempt to contaminate in order to involve the straight community in the push to increase federal funding for AIDS research).

So, with the population replacement rate practically down to zero, we have some “leaders” of the homosexual community – who do nothing to help raise that rate – encouraging their members to make ill or kill those of us who have and/or are having and raising kids here.

I find it fascinating that many members of the homosexual community and the radical feminists are on the front line of the assault on traditional values and seek to replace them with more tolerance, diversity and other politically correct nonsense. They have succeeded beyond their wildest dreams.

While their activities have produced short-term benefits for them, that diversity, tolerance and egalitarianism have also opened the door to the idea that no culture is “better” than any other. Obama – apparently having confused Chicago with America — spent days recently apologizing to everyone he met for our defective, decadent and corrupt culture.

And that has brought to our shores a formerly foreign culture, the more radical elements of which are breeding at a rate well in excess of the rate among the indigenous LEGAL and NATURAL BORN population.

And, just as it already has in Great Britain and continental Europe, with those increasing numbers will come increased political and social power.

And with that will surely come a foreign theology and law system.

And that foreign theology – that’d be Islam— and law system – that’d be Sharia — DOES NOT TOLERATE HOMOSEXUALITY and regards WOMEN AS CHATTEL WHO HAVE NO PERSONAL RIGHTS LET ALONE THE SORT OF FREEDOM TO WHICH THE FEMINISTS ARE ACCUSTOMED.

The bottom line, gays and ladies? You will either fall under the sword (put to death for you government school folk) or confined to the house unless your “man” – who will beat you periodically – wants to take you out, in which case you will be garbed from head to toe. And, only HE can drive the car.

Here’s a short video clip of the reward your PC destruction of traditional American values will bring you.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlyeT1MBEzE

A number of years ago, a writer posited that there was a “War Against Boys” within and without the government school system. He opined that little boys were being psychologically and emotionally emasculated by millions of female teachers and others in the America of John Wayne.

We have now entered the era of the feminized “metrosexual” (one now occupies the White House) where boys are discouraged – often prohibited — from playing games with toy plastic guns, rubber knives or other weapons. Feminists, if it hadn’t been for millions of young men with REAL guns venturing forth from time-to-time to face down very rough folks with designs on this country – and YOU — your freedom (albeit shrinking thanks largely to our having become the Metrosexual States of America) to promulgate your radical worldview would not exist.

So there you have it.

I’d urge you to think about these things while there MIGHT still be time to alter course.

PS: I had to get this out of my system BEFORE the new, improved congress passes the pending legislation making it a crime to post ANYTHING on the web that could in any way cause ANYONE emotional distress. Would it matter that it was factual? Nope! While it’s probable that the Supremes will rule it a violation of the First Amendment, I’d rather not squander my kids’ small inheritance on lawyers bringing the case.

Dick Bachert
5/6/2009