Posted on 01/15/2016 5:28:53 AM PST by Kaslin
Eight years ago -- that's a generation in presidential politics -- Hillary Clinton expected that as the first woman in the Oval Office she would be making the State of the Union address this week. Instead she's in Iowa and New Hampshire, up to her knees in snow and slush again, fighting off Bernie Sanders, who was left for dead a month ago and has suddenly begun rising in the polls in both states, inflicting severe dyspepsia in the Clinton camp.
But this is not the Year of the Woman, and "women's issues" are not front-and-center this year. Clinton's not trying to make it so. This time around there are different kinds of women voters, and many of them don't see the world through a feminist lens. Younger women aren't impatient to see the first woman in the Oval Office, because they see smart, capable women ascending everywhere. Nearly everyone recognizes that women have the intellectual and academic smarts to succeed, going off to professional schools in greater numbers than men. Young women understand that a woman's making it to the White House is only a matter of time.
Young women have worries and concerns that transcend politics, worries and concerns that can't be easily fixed in the political arena. These women confront a contradiction central to feminist theory, a contradiction that was not anticipated when Gloria Steinem dressed up as a bunny with a cotton tail at the Playboy Club, all to protest male chauvinism.
What the older feminists did not anticipate was how dramatically sexual attitudes would change. They didn't foresee that many young women, who were taught that autonomy was central to women's liberation, would be ill-prepared to withstand the consequences. Young women would inherit a freedom that many would find difficult to handle. Some women were strong enough to play by men's rules; many were not.
The change in sexual attitudes has become particularly confusing to women on campus. Men and women have continued to give each other mixed sexual signals, leading to misunderstanding, frustration and fear. Anxieties have been exacerbated as parents, who once were the moral tutors, have abandoned their roles as gatekeepers. What followed has been an epidemic of rape accusations, if not always actual rape, at many universities. One woman achieved media immortality by carrying her mattress around the Columbia University campus as an updated "Scarlet Letter," to focus attention to the man she said had done her wrong.
Rape, which once was a capital offense, has become diminished and trivialized to the pain of both men and women, victims of "he said, she said" perceptions. College administrators finally realize late that many of the young in their keep are unprepared to deal with their sexuality. No one wants to bring back the Victorian rules of yesteryear, but many seek better ways to educate in a world that changes with mystifying speed.
Jonathan Kalin, 24, founded "Party with Consent," an organization that teaches, sometimes with Hollywood movies, "cool" ways for college men and women to learn how to say what they mean. It's not the stuff of romance, and it's not "Romeo and Juliet" or even "Casablanca," but it aims for the effective clarity of plain expression. Homework assignments might include learning a whole new vocabulary (perhaps not with the rigor of Latin declensions) to require a young man to listen more closely to his beloved's emotional responses on a "spectrum of consent." Is she offering enthusiastic consent, implied consent or reluctant permission?
Such programs require students to understand that drunkenness, a big problem on campus (and for the neighborhood surrounding the campus), confuses the meaning of consent. This is particularly important because lectures in how to behave are usually followed by raucous parties with bands, open bars and bowls of brightly colored condoms printed with the phrase, "Did you consent?"
This would be easy to satirize if it weren't so sad. Some programs reduce new sex education to the traffic-school model, and liken consent signals to the signals of traffic lights: red, yellow or green. This isn't all that different from the campus of the 1940s and '50s, when the grandfathers of this generation boasted to each other of getting to first base, striking out or hitting a home run.
In the campaign season, pundits over-generalize about the "woman's vote" and the "woman's voice," dividing women up into narrow categories, simplifying the meaning of feminism and overlooking the larger cultural framework where women live. Long ago, Sigmund Freud asked naively, "What do women want?" The answer changes from generation to generation, but the question survives no matter who's running for president.
Fabric. OK fabric and chocolate.....
In Asia they say want the three “C’s”
Cash
Credit Cards
Condo
So 4 words
New shoes?
lol Well yeah, always.
For my dogs to be healthy.
For DH’s job to be secure & stay as great as it is.
A little time on the beach.
Same as always.
“What do women want?”
Don’t give a flip what they want, until they care about what men want.
What women want is a man who respects us. We want a man who will not demean, degrade or humiliate us, in private or in public. We want a man who is strong in the things we cannot do, but tender, understanding and loving towards us. There are lots of other attributes that escape me now, but those listed are a good start. And these attributes require some maturity to understand and implement.....something most college males don’t yet have because of their youth or upbringing.
No rattlesnakes on my property
No grasshoppers in the garden
A long vacation without children.
I can remember when I grew up when my parents went on vacation they always took my sister and myself to relatives to spend the time there. I never had that luxury when our kids were small.
No, I don’t have anyone volunteering to watch my kids, ever. Including their father.
Well, that’s not quite true: #2 Son (19) has “volunteered,” anticipating pay, but I’d like to have the rest all still living, thanks.
I am strangely drawn to this pic. lol
a man with a sense of style
good manners
no punk ass, faggoty liberal bed wetting
brings over cheap beer and Marlboro Blacks.
owns more than one John B Stetson
*We are living in bizarro world.*
Yeah and this Conservative Woman agrees.
Anyone, ANYONE but this horrific creature.
But she won’t ... if Bernie wins, however, it will be considered Stalin’s second term ...
Oh you had to say it, didn’t you? Fabric is a problem for me. Much worse than shoes.
(& they say that admitting you have a problem is the first step. . .)
Money
No advice
Pliable
Listen listen listen as they do what they call vent
Be responsible and give them security
Make decisions for them when they want you to but don’t act like you are.....admittedly this one has gotten harder in the fembot era
Have stamina and a very strong oral appetite and take time with them and be close to them ....as intimate as they will allow....and yes there are times for wild abandonment and fast passion.....they will let you know when that is
Be the father in all ways for your children
Be prepared to fight....it can happen
Obey God or at least respect the notion
Women are not easy....they can’t help it....some is inherent and some is conditioned
The good women are well worth it
There are good women everywhere but they tend to grow like mushrooms in Dixie
Ribs rock!
LOL
“They want Father Bernie now...”
You mean, you mean, he is the new messiah???
Oh joy!!! :-)
/s/
IMHO
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