Posted on 12/13/2017 12:09:48 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
I’m approaching my 82nd birthday, and my daughter will occasionally suggest that modernity is perplexing to me because I’m from prehistoric times.
As such, it points to one of the unavoidable problems of youth—namely, the temptation to think that today’s behavioral standards have always been. Let’s look at a few of the differences between yesteryear and today.
One of those differences is the treatment of women.
There are awesome physical strength differences between men and women. To create and maintain civil relationships between the sexes is to drum into boys, starting from very young ages, that they are not to use violence against a woman for any reason.
Special respect is given women. Yesteryear even the lowest of lowdown men would not curse or use foul language to or in the presence of women.
To see a man sitting on a crowded bus or trolley car while a woman is standing used to be unthinkable. It was deemed common decency for a man to give up his seat for a woman or elderly person.
Today young people use foul language in front of—and often to—adults and teachers. It’s not just foul language. Many youngsters feel that it’s acceptable to assault teachers. Just recently, 45 Pennsylvania teachers resigned because of student violence.
Back in what my daughter calls prehistoric times, the use of foul language to an adult or teacher would have meant a smack across the face. Of course, today a parent taking such corrective action risks being reported to a local child protective service and even being arrested.
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I have no idea why it did that. It’s not there on the preview.
Just edit it to make it leave.
It’s not there when I go to edit it.
Nice, seems pretty close to the truth doesn’t it.
I will be content with them refraining from turning our country into a socialist hellhole. Since so many men are turning out beta, women voters are merely looking to have the government do the job the betas won’t do. But in order for the betas to start shining as alphas, the government must stop guaranteeing help to everybody (among other things). Therefore, it is in women voters’ self-interest to stop voting for people who wish to turn our country into socialist hellholes, IMNSHO.
Your wish to have complete sovereignty over your child is good. However, you cannot be around to mind him all the time. That’s why corporal punishment in schools is not necessarily a bad thing, IMNSHO.
My grandparents apparently had a different upbringing than your great-grandmother, and they did not grow up rich by any means. They would have been appalled if I had opened up a whole can of blue streak in front of them.
HMMMmmm...
Re-type the whole thing!
The most polite people in the world are the ones at a gun show.
Try attending a gun show in New England.
No one in NE is nice.
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