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.
I’ll take the diamonds.....the fairy looking guy with the long hair, I’ll pass......
Laz.
OMG lol
^5 there ya go
I'm just saying..... :-)
Let's see: women need a good kitchen, a good Iron, and plenty of sammich makin’s. They never want that though.
Women want:
Brad Pitt, Matthew McConaughey, or worse George Clooney type of guy with lots of money and a fast car.
Cowgirls at least have some taste:
They'll settle for John Wayne, Ben Johnson, or Sam Elliot type that knows how to work, shoot, drive a pickup truck in the mountains and be a real man.
Well, almost if you consider a dictatorial tyrant the same as a messiah ...
The Husband Store
A brand new store has just opened in New York City that sells Husbands.
When women go to choose a husband, they have to follow the instructions
at the entrance:
“You may visit this store ONLY ONCE! There are 6 floors and the value of the products increase as you ascend the flights. You may choose any item from a particular floor or may choose to go up to the next floor, but you CANNOT go back down except to exit the building!”
So, a woman goes to the Husband Store to find a husband.
The 1st floor sign reads: Floor 1 - These men have jobs.
The 2nd floor sign reads: Floor 2 - These men Have Jobs and Love Kids.
The 3rd floor sign reads: Floor 3 - These men Have Jobs, Love Kids and are extremely good looking.
“Wow,” she thinks, but feels compelled to keep going.
She goes to the 4th floor and The sign reads: Floor 4 - These men Have Jobs, Love Kids, are Drop-dead Good Looking and Help with Housework.
“Oh, mercy me!” she exclaims, “I can hardly stand it!” Still, she goes to the 5th floor and The sign reads: Floor 5 - These men Have Jobs, Love Kids, are Drop-dead Gorgeous, help with Housework and Have A Strong Romantic Streak.
She is so tempted to stay, but she goes to the 6th floor and the sign reads:
Floor 6 - You are visitor 31,456,012 to this floor. There are no men on
this floor. This floor exists solely as proof that women are impossible
to please. Thank you for shopping at the Husband Store.
To avoid gender bias charges, the store’s owner opens a New Wives store
just across the street.
The 1st floor has wives who love sex.
The 2nd floor has wives who love sex and have money.
The 3rd through 6th floors have never been visited.
Ugh! A waxed chest.
oh-yeah.
I want a Conservative candidate to win.
Well, we all do.
“What Do Women Want This Year?”
Here’s what I want:
1. I want the Muslims removed from this country so my children can grow up safe from religious oppression, terrorism, and sexual assault.
2. I want the upcoming Republican President in conjunction with the Republican dominated Congress to use their two years of power to repeal the Democrat agenda. All of it. I also won’t complain if the Senate impeaches all of Obama’s judicial appointments.
3. I want a forty year moratorium on immigration just like the US had from 1924 to 1965.
4. I want the most powerful military in the world.
5. I want leftism excised from education like the tumor that it is.
6. A smaller Federal government.
7. End the BLM and turn over BLM lands to their respective states. No exceptions.
8. I want open/concealed carry permits to receive the ‘Full Faith & Credit’ respect they deserve. My Wyoming permit should be valid in all fifty states and in all US territories just the same as my driver’s license.
9. End deficit spending by slashing entitlements.
10. Issue shoot-to-kill orders for rioters and looters who object to #9.
11. Treat illegal immigrants as the hostile invaders that they are.
12. Shoes. Dammit, I want some decent shoes! And chocolate. Chocolate would be nice.
13. I want anyone who preaches against the USA removed from their government job, public university/college/school job, and I want anti-American media to be treated the same way they’ve treated gun owners and taxpayers.
14. The next time North Korea threatens to attack the USA we accept their declaration of war and annihilate them.
15. The USA recognizes Taiwan as an independent country and we resume full diplomatic and military relations with them.
16. The USA recognizes Israel’s sovereignty over all lands that they’ve conquered in their defensive wars. We also move our Embassy to Jerusalem.
17. All foreign trade agreements get cancelled in favor of a simple policy that our trade policies towards any country will be reflective of their most restrictive trade policy towards us. If they lower barriers to our trade then we reciprocate.
18. The State Department will be purged of leftists. The remaining two employees can lock the place up. Diplomatic duties will be turned over to the Marine Corps.
19. The Department of Defense gets its old name back: The War Department. Let that be a message to our enemies.
20. Did I mention shoes?
- Megan
Fabric is not a problem for me at all! I fully enjoy my addiction!!
Meeee too!
I was wondering what Sarah Palin's Freeper Handel was.
I didn't know it was you the whole time Megan!
(Wink!)
Hugs~~~ It is a great list!
(-:
Hugs and kisses to you, too!
Be careful what you wish for, Hillary's more of a real man than Obama.
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