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

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[cycle of discernment]

My generation created the sexual revolution - and it has been wrecking the lives of women ever since

By Bel Mooney

02nd December 2009

I experienced first-hand the impact of the sexual revolution, and the sweeping changes it wrought between men and women.

The sexual pressure that came with free love has gone from liberation to degredation.

I'm always amazed at the way the liberal Left is eager to make excuses for any dubious results of their progressive ideas.

Yet the damaging consequences of that Sixties revolution are obvious in the society we now live in - ranging from the utter mess made of education in this country (directly attributable to the overturning of traditional ideas in the Seventies, an orthodoxy which still prevails), to the dangerous 'anything goes' attitude which challenges any idea of restraint in speech or behaviour.

One cultural historian of the Seventies, Howard Sounes, writes: 'The after-effects of the great social and cultural changes of the Sixties, like waves created by rocks tossed in water, rippled out through society.'

Today, those of us who express doubts about the long-term effects of such cultural changes are dismissed as prudes suffering from a permanent moral panic-attack. The denial of the liberals is ongoing: a blinkered refusal to admit the causes and effects of history.

But this is what the distinguished historian Eric Hobsbawm writes about the shift in standards in his authoritative book, Age Of Extremes: 'The crisis of the family was linked with quite dramatic changes in public standards governing sexual behaviour, partnership and procreation... and the major change is datable and coincides with the Sixties and Seventies.'

The ongoing sexual 'revolution' is, in truth, as selfish and reactionary as the sixties with (women) conned by the talk of freedom into abandoning all self-respect.

[ansel12]

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...

And you were decades from having a position of power in America, at no time have the 2 year olds and the teenagers run this nation.

[ansel12]

Except for that one on the left front.

[malkee]

Is there any anger toward women here?

That is the root of a lot of problems that have led women to sexualize themselves.

And I believe these problems will be corrected only when more conservatve women, like Sarah Palin, run and are elected to public office. Young women need more positive role models. I would not want to be a young woman today, with all the pressure put on women to “perform.”

Another thought — saw an old movie with Shelley Winters recently, where she played somebody’s wife. How long has it been since you’ve seen a man under 60 with a fat wife?

Probably a while. Is this the concern of men or women?

[packrat35]

I HATE HIPPIES!

[Walkingfeather]

I am 43 and I despise what the 60s generation did to my generation. They tore up all the maps of the society and said, “ look we freed you”!
Well, maybe we liked those maps, who asked you to tear them up? Thanks for nothing D!ck heads.

[momincombatboots]

I am not Catholic, but this was predicted by this excellent document in 1968.
Humanae Vitae - Encyclical Letter of His Holiness Paul VI on the regulation of birth, 25 July 1968. A must read for everyone at least once.

[Broker]

The hippies wanted to destroy everything they misunderstood. Useful idiots then and now.

[cammie]

I don’t know that it’s so much that where the males dominate, society thrives, but it’s that where males are allowed to be males without having to apologize for it and where women who don’t act like whores and spread their legs at the slightest provocation are still considered to be desirable that society thrives.

[MrB]

It is the basic hubris of the young, and it is the one of the basic tenets that fuels the ideology of the left -

“we know better than those who invented those arbitrary rules, simply because we’re alive and living it NOW.”

Simply a fact - societies in which sex is condoned ONLY within the institution of one man/one woman marriage for life are the only societies in which women are truly empowered.

[MrB]

Read “Truth and Transformation” - it’s a real eye opener.
As I posted previously, and worthy of a repost, if I say so myself:

societies in which sex is ONLY condoned within the institution of one man/one woman marriage for life are the only societies in which women are truly empowered.

[Hoosier Catholic Momma]

As you can tell by my screen name, I am Catholic, LOL. I read that for the first time when I was 28 (2001). Words cannot describe how much that letter changed my life and my perspective for the better. At least a couple of my kids probably would not be here today if my thinking had not been changed.

[Trailerpark Badass]

I don’t know that it’s so much that where the males dominate, society thrives, but it’s that where males are allowed to be males without having to apologize for it and where women who don’t act like whores and spread their legs at the slightest provocation are still considered to be desirable that society thrives.

I would say it's the opposite, cultures in which FEMALES dominate by demanding that men are productive, act honorably, and live up to their responsibilities.

I don't think your average feminist understands exactly how much "power" she threw away, all in the vain attempt to be like men. Cultures where women are used like pieces of meat (even if they convince themselves they are "free" and enjoying it) seem more common in the 3rd world. THOSE are the "patriarchies."

[momincombatboots]

I read it just a coupla years ago, so to me it was prophetic. Definitely God speaking to us all. I was born the year it was written.

[Brian Kopp DPM]

There is a good novel that was published recently by One More Soul titled Fatherless by Brian J. Gail.

It does a fantastic job of catechesis within a fictional novel framework regarding the Church's teaching on contraception, and the link between the Pill and breast cancer, stroke, etc.

[Dick Bachert]

As guy who has been married to the same lady for 47 years, has a 40+ year-old daughter and 4 granddaughters, the only thing approaching anger here is that far too many western women have allowed themselves to be diverted from the most important job on God’s green earth: The keeping of the home and the nurturing and raising of the next generations.

The leftists/feminists who launched this crap knew precisely what they were about when it started: Destroy the family unit by taking the woman out of her vital and traditional role and the resulting conflict and confusion would provide fertile ground for reshaping — or destroying — the entire culture.

That it worked so well for them should make angry anyone who thought through to the end-game. We’re getting close to that point and may not be able to turn it around.

[cammie]

I think that we’re probably both saying the same thing - societies where women don’t give it up for free are better off.

[afraidfortherepublic]

I am pre-boomer by a few years. My children are post-boomer. The boomers, whether they were 2, or 22, at the moment when sexual liberation and feminaziism swept the nation had a lot to do with its success because they accepted immediately and popularized the new order — free sex, drugs, multiple sexual partners, etc. — and made it the norm.

Voting had nothing to do with R v Wade. That was a Supreme Court decision.

My generation was more cautious, although some of us had a lot to do with it too by being quiet and watchful. The Boomers were at the forefront of experimentation with the new order, while the Friedans and the Germaine Greers sat back and raked in the money from their followers. My generation (formerly called the “Silent Generation”) sat in stunned silence for years. Those of us who are still alive have found our voices now, however.

Hear us roar!

[afraidfortherepublic]

...far too many western women have allowed themselves to be diverted from the most important job on God’s green earth: The keeping of the home and the nurturing and raising of the next generations.

Absolutely. There are a lot of factors there:

Repressed salaries for men
Divorce and the subsequent single parent households
Increased tuitions and need for moms to work
Desire for all the latest gadgets
Pushing the kids to take up every conceivable sport, musical instrument, dance, etc.

I'm sure that I could think of many more, but it's all so depressing. Thank God all of my 11 grandchildren have been raised by their own moms. One family had a part time nanny, but that is because my daughter operated a piano studio in her home, and the nanny was there to entertain my grandchildren to keep them from interrupting lessons.

[ansel12]

Abortion was legalized in a number of states by the time roeVwade was decided, your generation was the Jane Fonda, John Denver, Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix, Peter Paul & Mary, Grace Slick, Neil Young , Beatles, Van Morrison, Joan Baez, Jerry Garcia, Pete Townsend, Joe Cocker, Judy Collins, Jimmy Page, Janis Joplin, Bob Dylan, Williams Ayers, Chicago Seven, Rod Stewart,etc, etc, etc, the crowd that ranged in age from 15 to 35 in 1960. They created and popularized the new order — free sex, drugs, multiple sexual partners, etc. — and made it the norm. Older than them were the people running the nation into the ground with legislation and court activism.