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All the sex a girl needs
TownHall.com ^ | Thursday, November 7, 2002 | by Ben Shapiro

Posted on 11/06/2002 9:23:49 PM PST by JohnHuang2

Teenage girls are now almost as likely to initiate sex as boys. So reported The New York Times on Nov. 3, in a piece entitled "She's Got to Be a Macho Girl." "After a half-century during which generations of young women were advised to never even call a boy on the telephone," read the article, "it is now teenage girls who not only do the calling, but who often initiate romantic and even sexual activity." The article highlights this new girls-as-aggressors phenomenon as "daring," a logical outgrowth of women's "empowerment." But in truth, the new development reveals the failure of the modern feminist movement. A major goal of the feminist movement was to put women in the workplace. Advocating job over family, the "women's equality crowd" told women that men were unnecessary for long-term relationships. "A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle," said militant male-basher Gloria Steinem.

Men became "boy-toys." Use them, and then, lose them. Men became to women what for too long women had been to men -- sexual objects. Sex is fun, the logic went, and the more sex the better -- so go get 'em, tigress! "There is a kind of machismo among girls now," Marty Beckerman, age 19, told the Times. "They have the male-conquest attitude."

Where were the parents to prevent such a despicable chain of events? The feminists had discarded them, too. Marriage was a sham perpetrated by the male power structure, the all-knowing feminists told society.

Just check the National Organization for Women's web site. NOW's web page links to an article by Mary Garden ripping pro-marriage politicians. "We also need to ignore the wailing of politicians and journalists who, fueled by such research, want us to return to a romanticized version of nuclear family life in the 1950s that simply never existed," Garden writes. When in doubt, lie about the 1950s. Statistics show that the nuclear family was far stronger in the 1950s than it is today.

Divorce, shacking up and single motherhood are just as good as traditional marriage, both for children and for women, feminists claim. "No one is a stay-at-home mom anymore," Sarah Durrell, 17, explained to the Times. "Women don't have to wear skirts. We are empowered, and we can do whatever we want."

This supposedly "empowering" ideal cuts men out of the loop. Want a career and a kid? Get pregnant, and then, throw the bum out. A single mother is sufficient for the child. The liberal media endorses this idea, championing pregnant single mothers on many prime-time television programs.

And so men have become non-entities in the household. Young men suffer without the presence of a father -- paternal absence is perhaps the primary cause of gangbanging and other crime. But what is less talked about is the effect on young women who lack strong fathers.

The Times quotes a young girl who says her mother approves of her forward behavior. What about her father? He doesn't approve and says, "I used to be a boy once, and I know what they're after, and they're only after one thing." Wise advice. But she writes him off as "old-fashioned." Because what would a man know about male lust, after all?

The feminist movement calls parental advice illegitimate. Give a girl a condom, and let her loose, they say. If she gets pregnant, give her an abortion. But whatever you do, don't let parents raise their own children.

That's Planned Parenthood's way. It posts a fact sheet about teen pregnancy. Guess what solutions it recommends: an end to abstinence-only education, plus on-demand abortion for minors without parental notification if the teens get knocked up. "Presently, an unrealistic emphasis is placed on preventing adolescent sexual behavior," the fact sheet states, "which overlooks the fact that sexual expression is an essential component of healthy human development for individuals of all ages."

In Deuteronomy 15:15-17, the Bible describes a seemingly strange ritual. If a man marries a woman to whom he was engaged and then accuses her of not being a virgin prior to marriage, the parents of the woman must bring proofs of her virginity to the elders of the city. Why is this the job of the parents? Commentators explain that if the accusations are true, the parents must shoulder the responsibility.

If The New York Times is correct, and today's teenage girls aggressively pursue sex, it is a reflection of the feminist movement, which has castrated parents' ability to raise their children properly. And it's the promiscuous girls and their unwanted children who pay the price.


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Thursday, November 7, 2002

Quote of the Day by leprechaun9

1 posted on 11/06/2002 9:23:49 PM PST by JohnHuang2
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To: JohnHuang2
Damn. I knew I was born too late. Oh to be a teenage boy again...
2 posted on 11/06/2002 9:27:46 PM PST by joonbug
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To: JohnHuang2
Female empowerment is a myth, because when all things are said and a man can just take what ever he wants from a woman. Unless males get proper parenting that is usually what happens.
3 posted on 11/06/2002 9:45:13 PM PST by Ajnin
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To: Ajnin
As long as a man isn't the one who gets pregnant all this
talk of "equality" is simply a smoke screen. A smoke screen, I might point out, that achieves the goals of the very men the NOW crowd so much claims to abhor.
4 posted on 11/06/2002 9:53:09 PM PST by The Duke
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To: JohnHuang2
I almost feel sorry for this miserable woman who finally got married after she wasted most of her life hating men.
5 posted on 11/06/2002 9:55:10 PM PST by briant
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To: JohnHuang2
"A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle," said militant male-basher Gloria Steinem.

I was refering to this woman.

6 posted on 11/06/2002 9:56:09 PM PST by briant
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To: joonbug
Damn. I knew I was born too late. Oh to be a teenage boy again...

Oh, I don't know. Check out the disease stats HERE.

7 posted on 11/06/2002 9:56:50 PM PST by Jeff Chandler
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To: The Duke
Excellent point, Duke! Wonder why we pro-lifers aren't concentrating more effort on educating young men regarding the individual human beings in the womb? Oh! I forgot; the female of the species has the right to terminate ANY life support she's giving, but the male is legally bound to continue life support for at least eighteen years.
8 posted on 11/06/2002 9:59:01 PM PST by MHGinTN
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To: JohnHuang2
It's pretty sad when you see some 15 year old girl in the emergency room of a hospital because she tried to overdose on a bottle of tylenol. These girls may be promiscuous but they get dumped a lot and turned down. It's natural for the woman to let the male do the pursuing but what does it do to a girl's emotion when boys reject her offers?
9 posted on 11/06/2002 10:03:36 PM PST by FITZ
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To: FITZ
"The article highlights this new girls-as-aggressors phenomenon as "daring," a logical outgrowth of women's "empowerment."

The real reason this is happening this way is that men are so afraid of being accused of sexual harrasmant,the girls have to initiate.Simple neccessity.
10 posted on 11/06/2002 10:09:22 PM PST by Rocksalt
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To: MHGinTN
The secret is prevention of STD's and pregnancy, as well as a lot of health problems and mental and spiritual distress.

The article in the NYT (mentioned in this article) had the wrong focus, of course. The problem is not equality on the debate team or jobs. It's not even in who asks for a date, first. It's about teaching girls (and boys) that they have more to bring to a relationship - and to the rest of their lives - than sex. Sex is not for power over others or to win temporary companionship. It's to share with someone who loves you.
11 posted on 11/06/2002 10:10:14 PM PST by hocndoc
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To: FITZ
These are the women that go abstinent after the ring is on...LOL!
12 posted on 11/06/2002 10:14:11 PM PST by ApesForEvolution
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To: JohnHuang2
Women think the way to be acceptable to men is to be sexually forward. What men is it that she's looking for approval from? It's just more illusory "freedom" that women are seeking. While seeking to be "free" from the control of evil/exploitative men, they are actually just going from one form to another.

This is not meant to bash men. There are good men out there, and good women. Heaven help them find each other among the hordes of selfish men and women.
13 posted on 11/06/2002 10:16:35 PM PST by Terriergal
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To: JohnHuang2
This guy is a total idiot. You shouldn't post his articles here, he's a disgrace and he makes conservatives look bad. Heritage should be ashamed to run his column.
14 posted on 11/06/2002 10:18:33 PM PST by xm177e2
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To: joonbug
I am sure you meant that as a joke, so won't flame you... but this is a very sad situation when young women are doing these things so frivolously.

ROB ROY: All men with honor are kings - but not all kings have honor.
SON: What is honor?
ROB ROY: Honor is.. what no man can give ye, and no one can take away. Honor is a man's gift to himself.
SON: Do women have it?
ROB ROY: Women are the heart of honor - and we cherish and protect it in them. You must never mistreat a woman, or malign a man. Or stand by and see another do so.
SON: How do you know if you have it?
ROB ROY: Never worry in the getting of it. It grows in ye and speaks to ye. All you need to do is listen."
15 posted on 11/06/2002 10:19:53 PM PST by Terriergal
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To: JohnHuang2
All your society are belong to us.
16 posted on 11/06/2002 10:20:05 PM PST by BuddhaBoy
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To: xm177e2
??? Did you read the article?
17 posted on 11/06/2002 10:21:04 PM PST by Terriergal
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To: hocndoc
It's to share with someone who loves you.

Unfortunately, too many young girls think that sex is the only way to get someone to like/love them. A shame that they think sex is the only thing that they have to offer...

18 posted on 11/06/2002 10:21:25 PM PST by Fraulein
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To: JohnHuang2
I have sons, all of whom are hunks. They don't get phone calls from girls. In fact, they are/were rejected en masse by females when they call(ed) girls.

I never could figure it out. All three boys are conservative, Christian and Eagle Scouts. Miraculously, the eldest (founder of a dry fratnerity on his college campus) found the right girl (another "True Love Waits" prototype) and is getting married July 4. They will both be 22.

Boys #2 and #3 pine for girls who reject them, turn out to be lesbians, hate Republicans, etc.

The secret, I have found, is that alot of these girls are coming from homes with no parental supervision or core set of values. They are "sl*t" material, though I would never point that out directly to the boys.

Amazingly, as my parents would have predicted 40 years ago, "nice" girls do crop up and somehow G-d will find the right girl for someone at the right time.

Girls who have standards, one whom a parent would want a son to date, come from families who do not tolerate such behavior. They are still out there, probably wondering what's wrong with them, too.

19 posted on 11/06/2002 10:28:47 PM PST by MHT
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To: Terriergal
No, I'm refering to a different article:
America has divided into two factions: those who fight evil and those who do not believe in evil. The dividing line is religion.

Those who believe in a Judeo-Christian God know the difference between good and evil because they know the value of human life. They know that an element of man is divine and that man has a purpose in the universe. They know that man has free will to choose between good and evil. And because they know the value of life, they know the evil of those who take it for non-defensive purposes.

They realize that terrorists who smashed airliners into buildings were not provoked by American foreign policy -- the terrorists were seeking death because they were part of a culture that loves death. Deeply religious people knew what America had to do in response: kill those responsible for the terrorism and those who supported them, and prevent the evil from growing.

The other faction does not believe in God, at least not actively. There is no good, and there is no evil, these people believe. If God has no purpose for man -- as they believe -- then life is meaningless, and the death of thousands of Americans has no more meaning than the death of a colony of ants.


20 posted on 11/06/2002 10:30:54 PM PST by xm177e2
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