ReadabilityHow's that women-empowering sexual revolution thing working out for you?
From the U.K. Telegraph:
A friend’s daughter recently started at a highly regarded boarding school. When her mother asked how she was enjoying the mixed-sex environment, the girl said quietly: “You have to give the boys oral sex or they get cross.” Reeling with shock, the mum protested that her darling daughter did not have to do anything of the sort. “Oh yes you do,” replied the girl. “And you have to shave down there or the boys don’t like it.”
That’s just a sample. There’s also:
Only last week, we heard the awful story of Chevonea Kendall-Bryan, who fell to her death after pleading with a boy on the pavement below to erase the recording of her performing a sex act on him. “How much can I handle? HONESTLY. I beg you, delete that,” texted Chevonea. She was 13.
The author of this article, Allison Pearson, talks a lot about the porn culture and the ready access to a “virtual world” (online, texting, etc.). But she misses the point. We could have thrown mobile phones at women in the 1860s, but no man would have dared to ask a lady to perform fellatio on him, because her dad would shoot him. As in, dual to the death, all members of her family lined up to protest the treatment of their sister. (I will note that some very backwards countries shoot the wronged woman, not the offending man.)
This is a sexual revolution issue. Once we started saying that promiscuity is empowering, that sexual experimentation is fun for women, that pregnancy is the only obstacle a woman faces in intimate acts, we gave young men license to treat young women like unpaid prostitutes. (Actually, worse — a man might understand if a prostitute said that she was off-duty for the night.)
The leaders of the sexual revolution — courted by men brought up with different standards than the ones espoused by the likes of Steinem — had it good. But their legacy to my generation, and the generation behind me, is men brought up to believe that only a repressed woman does not put out, that sex is their right, and that there is nothing emotional that happens to a woman when she performs intimate (and sometimes quite vulgar and undignified) sex acts on men who are not her husband. The logical result, no matter what the intentions of these Baby Boomer women were, is that men feel it is their natural right to sexually exploit all women.
Nice going, “feminists”. Nice going.
From the U.K. Telegraph:
A friend’s daughter recently started at a highly regarded boarding school. When her mother asked how she was enjoying the mixed-sex environment, the girl said quietly: “You have to give the boys oral sex or they get cross.” Reeling with shock, the mum protested that her darling daughter did not have to do anything of the sort. “Oh yes you do,” replied the girl. “And you have to shave down there or the boys don’t like it.”
That’s just a sample. There’s also:
Only last week, we heard the awful story of Chevonea Kendall-Bryan, who fell to her death after pleading with a boy on the pavement below to erase the recording of her performing a sex act on him. “How much can I handle? HONESTLY. I beg you, delete that,” texted Chevonea. She was 13.
The author of this article, Allison Pearson, talks a lot about the porn culture and the ready access to a “virtual world” (online, texting, etc.). But she misses the point. We could have thrown mobile phones at women in the 1860s, but no man would have dared to ask a lady to perform fellatio on him, because her dad would shoot him. As in, dual to the death, all members of her family lined up to protest the treatment of their sister. (I will note that some very backwards countries shoot the wronged woman, not the offending man.)
This is a sexual revolution issue. Once we started saying that promiscuity is empowering, that sexual experimentation is fun for women, that pregnancy is the only obstacle a woman faces in intimate acts, we gave young men license to treat young women like unpaid prostitutes. (Actually, worse – a man might understand if a prostitute said that she was off-duty for the night.)
The leaders of the sexual revolution – courted by men brought up with different standards than the ones espoused by the likes of Steinem – had it good. But their legacy to my generation, and the generation behind me, is men brought up to believe that only a repressed woman does not put out, that sex is their right, and that there is nothing emotional that happens to a woman when she performs intimate (and sometimes quite vulgar and undignified) sex acts on men who are not her husband. The logical result, no matter what the intentions of these Baby Boomer women were, is that men feel it is their natural right to sexually exploit all women.
Nice going, “feminists”. Nice going.
Or you can just make this crap up to get attention.
Sadly, there’s an extra http:// that gets appended to the Telegraph link, at least under Safari
And it is only going to get worse. Once sex becomes a “basic human right” women who resist rape will be illeaglly descrimanating against the rapist’s sexual rights.
I love it: three-plus decades of male bashing; institutionalized male discrimination in the family courts, MBWB gov’t contract set-asides, affirmative action hiring, educational opportunities, wildly disparate medical funding and the runaway her-word-as-gospel “sexual harassment” silliness; to say nothing of the media portrayal of men as either sex-crazed fiends or sex-crazed doofuses, and still Ms De Luca manages to twist it so that men are the problem. How about ascribing just a weee bit of blame at the legions of “empowered” gold-digging, shrill harpies, and welfare mares that have resulted from this new feminist enlightenment?
jkr: ROFLMAO.
So I write a piece, blaming the sexual revolution and Baby Boomer women for the situation we are in now, and you accuse me of man-bashing? Oh, honey-baby-pants!
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I have to say, all the way back in the 1970s, I was regularly accosted by “men” who believed that “that only a repressed woman does not put out, that sex is their right, and that there is nothing emotional that happens to a woman when she performs intimate (and sometimes quite vulgar and undignified) sex acts on men who are not her husband.”
These were “men” who didn’t even think there was anything special about me. As far as they were concerned, all women of nubile age had the same body parts, and it made no difference to them whose they used.
Disgusting.