Posted on 11/30/2017 4:29:57 AM PST by x1stcav
The explosion of sexual harassment and assault claims, some going back forty years, is the inevitable consequence of the sexual revolution. Long before Bill Clinton’s sordid sexual escapades led him to impeachment, our culture had normalized public sexual behavior and mores once hidden away in the private realm, and kept there by laws, morals, and customs. Like many of our social pathologies today, our sexually saturated public culture and the unleashing of sexual predators are the bitter fruit of the free love movement of the Sixties.
Those who didn’t live through that period cannot imagine how quickly and radically our society was transformed. And that change was encouraged by certain species of dubious Pop-Freudian psychological ideas that had been combined with left-wing theories of political revolution. This synthesis was predicated on the delegitimization of the “bourgeois” virtues, morals, and values that had created the “false consciousness” empowering capitalist oppression. “If it feels good, do it” and “F^ck authority” became the most important personal and political imperatives.
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It will be quite a challenge to get the genie back in the bottle, but our culture needs to get back to Christian roots with expectations of sexual morality. We took the wrong road, and we need to repent.
>>Have some great memories of the times. Hippie chicks were always easy. But even then you knew there was a little voice telling you it all wasn’t quite right.
I agree. Say what you will about the 70s— Pintos, 140 hp V8s, synthetic fabrics, red carpet, avocado toilets—but it was a great time to come of age as a young man. The girls competed to prove who was the most “free-spirited”, which just translated to “easy”.
Great lays but real head-trips.
What a guy had to put up with just to....
Free love isn’t free (saying NO became a crime, it was “stingy”).
And the Weather Underground forced members to have sex. Years later some of the women reluctantly said it wasn’t always consensual.
>>Great lays but real head-trips.
I didn’t see that. They liked to talk, but they weren’t militant like they are now and Progressive ideology wasn’t nearly as toxic to men as it is now.
It was just foreplay then.
The Cleansing will be Old Testament in scope and nature.
Uh, they weren’t particulary stable back the (the ‘60s) but maybe things were different in the ‘70s(I was married and out of play).
But your right that in comparison to today’s creatures (I can only imagine)the times were pretty innocent.
Sure glad I’m past all that.
‘We must repent and turn away from sin.’
Good advice.
Great time. Don’t remember a down side. Luckily I got by without debilitating stds. And when I got married in 1980, I kept my vows to this day. I still look. I still ‘flirt’ but all good clean fun.... I never succumb.
I was born in the early 70s so I was a kid in this “free and easy” environment you are talking about.
Coulda done without the perviness of that era contaminating my childhood at that age, thanks.
(The article) describe(s) the problems of modernity. “In the old days...” men and women were partners in a life and death struggle for survival. Men hunted, fished, and farmed in the forests and fields. Women stayed by the fires to maintain the homestead, process the food, and help with the livestock. Children were a blessing as they, too, were additional hands to help with the chores. This is generally how most people lived until the late 19th century. Rapid industrialization changed all this, socially, economically, and politically. Prior to this point in time, the men voted on behalf of the entire family unit. Then women were given the vote, which bifurcated the interests of the family. The world wars put women in the factories in large numbers, liberating them from the home. The growth of the leviathan nanny state we suffer under has followed the arc of women’s involvement in politics and their affinity for government tyranny over liberty. As we have seen, these historic changes have not been an unadulterated good. We live today with the problems of modernity.
I came of age in the 1960s, and somehow all this missed me. I could not pick up a chick to save my neck. I guess I was (as the term was) too “square”.
It did kept me from getting in lots of trouble.
Sing it, brother ... you and me both!
However, I did have one saving grace: I played in the marching and concert bands.
Ahhh... band camps, band trips, and band girls [sigh]...
“genie back in the bottle”
‘genie’ and ‘bottle’ - great nicknames for a couple of body parts.
“Uh, they weren’t particularly stable back the (the ‘60s) but maybe things were different in the ‘70s”
The changes in popular music reflects the dirtying down as we got into the 70’s, and it continues.
Reminds me of the Decameron story of “Putting the Devil in Hell.”
This isn’t the free love wind, this is the celebrity privilege wind. Harassing women in the work place predates free love by a good twenty years. When the rest of the world was figuring out that sexual harassment was wrong in the 80s we decided to keep letting famous people do it.
And there were other young women who would grudgingly submit because they feared being labeled as "uptight". Like those of us now who put up with crap because we fear being called racist, sexist, homophobic, Islamophobic, etc.
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