Posted on 03/19/2002 7:13:02 AM PST by TLBSHOW
Slutty behavior cheapens everyone involved including the horndogs. Why a woman would want to so willingly give away one of her primary sources of power to strangers in a drunken stupor is beside me.
If you think that the problems in the black community at large are strictly due to racism or slavery, you are quite wrong. Before the Great Society programs which coincided with the sexual revolution black families were only slightly less likely to be a 2 parent household than whites. Look now. Do you really think that the same type of collapse of sexual mores in the college community will not have the same type of destructive results...relatively speaking. The only difference is that the fall for blacks has been one of shorter distance to the bottom. Increased promiscuousness by middle class college girls will not have positive implications for all of us as whole....of that you may be sure.
Instead of applauding this as harmless or how is it irresponsible? your words previously, we should be working to discourage it and promote discretion.
I sense a theme of questioning the place of personal responsibility in your threads. I understand from your username you must like guns (hence Conservative by default on that issue) but are you basically opposed to societal morality in general?
Everyone loves a small town Midwesterner....
only for some. How many women before recent years opted for "family life" because it was the only way to gain economic security? i'm guessing a lot.
women never have any problem with opportunities for sex, the only thing that keeps men from having sex constantly. the only thing that kept women from pursuing as much sex as they wanted was that they had to make themselves more appealing to men so that they woudl be economically supported. men naturally decided on a social order in which they could select a partner with less 'history". why wouldn't they?
that's all changed. morality never dictates behavior in any meaningful way, economics does. women have nothing to lose by having as much sex as they want now with as many partners as they choose.
how much does a message like "if you have a lot of sex i won't marry/support you" affect modern women's thinking when she can have the sex and support herself? probably not much.
That is really incredible that the illegitimate rate for black was only 2% above whites back then.
Although I'm sure some of the black colleges have the same troubles with the girls today since all of the N.O.W. stuff has been polluting their minds too.
I think women should use utmost discretion in whom they sleep with and when they do it should be for love. I understand your well known preference for love as well as material security and i would not fault that exactly but I would caution that the former is paramount much more so than the latter.
The essential complete breakdown of sexual responsibility in the black community outside the black middle and upper middle class is in my opinion devastating....incredibly so in fact. Nearly 8 of 10 black children have no daddies. Both the mommies and even more so perhaps the daddies are to blame...it has become self perpetuating and is now in it's 4 generation in some cases. I would almost wager that black legitimacy was actually higher during Reconstruction than now...just a thought. When racism was quite real and serious to one's health I might add.
Blacks are only a glaring example but all one need do is look at the history of the world and see what happens when sexual mores reach rock bottom. When middle class college girls are aping Jerry Springer shows...it's not a good sign.
I don't think it is who you sleep with but why that matters dear.
That is LBJ's legacy 80% of black kids with no daddies.
But painting all college girls who have promiscuous sex as "sluts" (as this article did) is wrong. The article wasn't making a social point about the damage promiscuity does to society, it was just written by a guy who wanted to vent his anger for women.
Not all girls who are promiscuous are irresponsible with birth control, and there are better methods of birth control than the pill. You can be against promiscuity without demonizing these girls as whores and sluts.
And there are plenty of responsible people in society who are also promiscuous. The two are not mutually exclusive.
As an aside, I have lived in black countries the world over and serial illegitimacy and even polygamy is quite pervasive. I think that before the 60s, that the black community is the US may have been the most nuclear family oriented black community on the planet.
Men who utilize such willing drunken girls are no better.
A political leader or general of some sort I recall.
That issue is rather complicated.
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