it did bring equality... now they are equally miserable to men and live equally as long instead of much longer like they used too.
My daughter is 29. Yesterday she received an email ad from the website Ashley Madison, which promotes “discreet affairs”. My daughter isn’t married and has no idea how they got her email. The point is there is a company soliciting married people to have an affair. I had heard something about them a few years ago - something about a billboard ad somewhere. I don’t think our society has a chance.
Maybe after 50 years they’re understanding that the sexual revolution basically liberated men even more to be able to use and abuse women to a greater degree, not be responsible for it (thanks to contraception and abortion) and, further heightened by the continued break down of families and self respect of, and for, members therein. So much for liberation and equality. Suckers.
I feel the same way when people pimp their examiner.com “essays” here on FR.
There is loud guilt and quiet guilt. Loud guilt causes a person to feel terrible. Quiet guilt leaves a person continually like a shoe is untied and things aren’t right.
We have a generation of women ravaged by quiet guilt.
Duh!
I watched a one hour emergency room reality show while waiting to see something else on TV a night ago, and this one was like none I have ever seen. There were three couples who had a medical emergency while having sex and none of them would admit to having sex when the doc asked them what happened.
One couple were trying to have sex in a tree and a branch broke and the male fell 20 feet to the ground. Part of the tree had caught him and split his thigh and there was blood coming from his penis area. The girl got out of tree, put her clothes on and helped get the male in pants and shirt and she went to hospital. It took 20 stitches in his thigh to close that and the blood from the penis area was from his scrotum and the doc treated that without having to put stitches in. Doc said it was strange that his pants didn't protect his leg from that long cut. They finally admitted they were nude in the tree.
Another couple were having sex in their room in Las Vegas and the air conditioner wasn't working. At the time of the climax of the male, he feel unconscious. The girl had to call 911 but wouldn't say they were having sex. She said she came into the room and he was like that. The doc kept asking questions because this fainting made no sense. They finally admitted they were having sex and he fainted. Doc said okay, the room was really hot and the male’s temp. had gone up due to having sex and at the point he fainted, there was not enough blood getting to his brain.
Another couple was an Asian couple but the girl came in with her father. Her jaws were locked open. Doc asked her what happened and she shook her head because she couldn't talk and the father didn't know why it happened. Doc asked if she opened her mouth too wide when trying to eat, she nodded no, he asked if she opened her mouth wide when she yawned and she shook her head yes.
In the bed next to her bed with a curtain between them was an Asian young man with a dislocated shoulder. The father and girl were having a physical confrontation since the father saw on her phone she was texting to a young man he told her to stay away from. In their tussle, the curtain got torn down and the father saw the Asian young man in that bed and he went wild.
In the end, the doc and nurse determined the Asian young man had climbed through her window and they were having sex and the girl went down on the man and opened her mouth too wide and the jaw went out of place. The father heard noise coming from her bedroom and he was headed in there. The young man started climbing out the window and fell and dislocated his shoulder when he fell.
The doc got the girl's jaw back in place and the man's shoulder back in place. The doc was great and said at the end that he had seen everything in an emergency room and he never believed a person's explanation if the injury could have happened from sex. He always kept that in the back of his mind as a cause until he knew it wasn't true. He said people will not admit to having sex even if that was what they were doing at the time.
So, people still have a problem admitting they have sex.
Good post. Everything the left wants to do always turns out as the exact opposite.
Without exception.
I have become reasonably certain that EVERYTHING leaves women plagued by an anxiety disorder.
Yes, sexual and social expectations; sexual manipulation and exploitation and lack of male commitment is all take an anxiety/depression toll upon women. That is indeed a MAJOR factor. But it's not the ONLY major factor.
For example, Mormon women are known to be more chaste pre-marriage -- and marriage is harped upon Mormon males in the Mormon culture. But what do we find in Utah, which was about 60% Mormon in the articles cited below?
Utah anxiety/depression:
Even BYU concedes the problem: Risk Factors and the Prevalence of Depression in Mormon Women
From: Two Studies Find Depression Widespread in Utah:
"Neither study was broken down by gender, but nationally women are twice as likely to be diagnosed with depressive disorders as men, experts told ABC News.Psychiatrists point to several factors that could contribute to Utah's high levels of depression: limited mental health resources, restricted access to treatment as a result of cost, poor quality of resources and a varied list of other factors, including an under funded educational system and a culture deeply rooted in the Mormon faith. 'In Mormon culture females are supposed accept a calling. They are to be constantly smiling over their family of five. They are supposed to take supper across the street to an ill neighbor and then put up with their husband when he comes home from work and smile about it the whole time. There is this sense that Mrs. Jones down street is doing the same thing, and there is this undercurrent of competition. To be a good mother and wife, women have to put on this mask of perfection. They can't show their tears, depression or agony,' Canning said. 'Obedience, conformity and maintaining a sense of harmony" are unspoken but widely recognized behaviors, which all contribute to what he calls "the Mother of Zion syndrome."
Other sources re: Utah:
* ”Utah is known nationwide for the wrong reason. 'Utah has a pharmaceutical drug problem,' said Jeffery Sweetin, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration special agent who oversees Utah...a 2007 report said had the country's highest rate of nonmedical painkiller abuse.”
Source headline: Utah has new prescription for painkiller problem (April 15, 2009)
See also:
* UVU professor's study puts focus on LDS women and depression (published by Mormon church-owned Deseret News)
* Study: 'Toxic Perfectionism' Major Part of LDS Women's Depression (published by Mormon church-owned KSL.com)
* Viewpoint: Dispelling the darkness [One BYU student recounts her battle with depression] (Written by a BYU student in a BYU publication)
* Religion: Depression and the (Mormon) church
* We've got the blues: Report labels Utah most depressed state in nation (Salt Lake Tribune)
If I was gender-stereotyped by the Democrat heroine, Sandra Fluke, for being totally unable to afford $9 a month contraceptives without a federal government subsidy, I too would be having anxiety disorders.
Since all thought processes were created by society and not hard-wired, women, thanks to birth control i.e. the pill, could be taught to be sexually promiscuous just like males. And they would have no guilt or anxieties about it.
Well, as we all know, the tabula rasa theory is a steaming pile of b.s. Male and female thoughts and behaviors, including the sexual area, are hard-wired. Many males naturally crave sex with multiple female partners. The reverse is not true for women. Women naturally pair love with sex. The adage about men giving love to get sex while women give sex to get love is mostly true.
So we have millions of unhappy females getting old with unsatisfied relationships thanks to the feminists. And probably an equal number of males who were sexual predatory when young, but who will be mighty unhappy as their sex appeal wanes in old age.
Okay so let me get this straight. Some woman named Martha (no last name) and I’m just guessing here but drinks a little too much Wild Turkey and gets on a blog called the Examiner.com. Now this blog is not even in the top 100 conservative websites and I can see why. I could hardly get it to load up.
So Martha (no last name) declares American women to be slutty, worthless, unhappy POS’s who can barely get through life due to the fact that they have the right to come and go and do as they please in life including deciding not to reproduce Heaven forbid. And Martha declares American men are almost as bad.
I’m trying not to laugh here and I dearly love my fellow freepers but having read all the posted comments so far I’m trying to figure out what parallel universe I’ve landed in.
I think its far more likely that Martha (no last name) may well be depressed from leading a less than prudent existence herself and may have allowed herself to become a depressed unhappy and unfulfilled woman. It happens.
To all my fellow freepers let me say that my experience has been that American men are the greatest guys in the world. A few bad apples in every barrel but for the most part good, solid, reliable upstanding, handsome, compassionate and loyal. American women are smart, selfconfident, pretty, well educated, hard working, independent and family oriented. Just like I imagine all the gals and guys on FR are.
If you think the 60’s were the first sexual revolution talk to grandma and Mom about the roaring 20’s and WWII.
I don’t believe a word Steinem says, she changes her tune on a dime (or for her next “story”) which just happens to fit her lifestyle at the time. Why anyone would follow that nut job is a mystery.
She is not for “women’s rights”, she is for LIBERAL women’s rights. She is a political hack!
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In 2005, Steinem worked alongside Jane Fonda and Robin Morgan to co-found the Women’s Media Center, an organization that works to amplify the voices of women in the media through advocacy, media and leadership training.
When Steinem was three years old, her mother Ruth, then aged 34, had a “nervous breakdown” that left her an invalid, trapped in delusional fantasies that occasionally turned violent. She changed “from an energetic, fun-loving, book-loving” woman into “someone who was afraid to be alone, who could not hang on to reality long enough to hold a job, and who could rarely concentrate enough to read a book.”[6] Ruth spent long periods in and out of sanatoriums for the mentally disabled. Steinem was ten years old when her parents finally separated in 1944. Her father went to California to find work, while she and her mother continued to live together in Toledo.
Steinem interpreted her mother’s inability to hold on to a job as evidence of general hostility towards working women.[8] She also interpreted the general apathy of doctors towards her mother as emerging from a similar anti-woman animus. Years later, Steinem described her mother’s experiences as having been pivotal to her understanding of social injustices.
In the late 1950s, Steinem spent two years in India as a Chester Bowles Asian Fellow. After returning to the U.S., she served as director of the Independent Research Service, an organization funded in secret by a donor which turned out to be the CIA. She worked to send non-Communist American students to the 1959 World Youth Festival.
In 1963, while working on an article for Huntington Hartford’s Show magazine, Steinem was employed as a Playboy Bunny at the New York Playboy Club.[14] The article featured a photo of Steinem in Bunny uniform and detailed how women were treated at those clubs.
In 1969, she covered an abortion speak-out for New York Magazine, which was held in a church basement in the Village.[20][21] Steinem had had an abortion herself in London at the age of 22.[22] She felt what she called a “big click” at the speak-out, and later said she didn’t “begin my life as an active feminist” until that day.
As she recalled, “It [abortion] is supposed to make us a bad person. But I must say, I never felt that. I used to sit and try and figure out how old the child would be, trying to make myself feel guilty.
In later years, Steinem became an outspoken supporter of animal rights, writing letters to the National Institutes of Health Office of Research on Women’s Health urging the office director to end the “cruelty, fraud, and waste” of NIH-funded experiments on animals purportedly conducted in the name of advancing women’s health.
During the Clarence Thomas sexual harassment scandal, Steinem voiced strong support for Anita Hill and suggested that one day Hill herself would sit on the Supreme Court.
Steinem defended Clinton against allegations of sexual impropriety that had been made by White House volunteer Kathleen Willey.
On September 3, 2000, at age 66, Steinem married David Bale, father of actor Christian Bale. The wedding was performed at the home of her friend Wilma Mankiller, the first female Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation. Steinem and Bale were married for only three years before he died of brain lymphoma on December 30, 2003, at age 62
On June 1, 2013 Steinem performed on stage at the “Chime For Change: The Sound Of Change Live” Concert at Twickenham Stadium in London, England. Chime For Change is a global campaign for girls’ and women’s empowerment founded by Gucci.
In the run-up to the 2004 election, Steinem voiced fierce criticism of the Bush administration, asserting, “There has never been an administration that has been more hostile to women’s equality, to reproductive freedom as a fundamental human right, and has acted on that hostility.” She went on to claim, “If he is elected in 2004, abortion will be criminalized in this country.” At a Planned Parenthood event in Boston, Steinem declared Bush “a danger to health and safety,” citing his antagonism to the Clean Water Act, reproductive freedom, sex education, and AIDS relief.
Both Senators Clinton and Obama are civil rights advocates, feminists, environmentalists, and critics of the war in Iraq.... Both have resisted pandering to the right, something that sets them apart from any Republican candidate, including John McCain. Both have Washington and foreign policy experience; George W. Bush did not when he first ran for president.
Steinem endorsed Senator Clinton, citing her broader experience, saying that the nation was in such bad shape it might require two terms of Clinton and two of Obama to fix it.
Steinem again drew attention for, according to the New York Observer, seeming “to denigrate the importance of John McCain’s time as a prisoner of war in Vietnam”. Steinem’s broader argument “was that the media and the political world are too admiring of militarism in all its guises.”
Steinem was vocal in criticising the media treatment of the Clinton campaign as sexist. Following McCain’s selection of Sarah Palin as his running mate, Steinem penned an op-ed in which she labeled Palin an “unqualified woman” who “opposes everything most other women want and need.” Steinem described her nomination speech as “divisive and deceptive”, called for a more inclusive Republican Party and concluded that Palin resembled “Phyllis Schlafly, only younger.”
Steinem’s social and political views overlap into multiple schools of feminism. This problem is compounded by the evolution of her views over five decades of activism. Although most frequently considered a liberal feminist, Steinem has repeatedly characterized herself as a radical feminist.
In 2005 Steinem characterized her abortion as a “pivotal and constructive experience.”
Steinem has been a vehement critic of pornography (she was a Playboy Bunny).
In a 2,200-word essay published in Time magazine on August 31, 1970, “What Would It Be Like If Women Win”, Steinem wrote about gay marriage in the context of the “Utopian” future she envisioned:
She said feminists are right to feel uncomfortable about the need for and uses of transsexualism.” The article concluded with what became one of Steinem’s most famous quotes: “If the shoe doesn’t fit, must we change the foot?”
She said, “Nobody cares about feminist academic writing. That’s careerism. These poor women in academia have to talk this silly language that nobody can understand in order to be accepted.
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Steinem is a NUT case who can’t keep her story straight.
Gloria’s ex- boyfriends & husband...
Husband: David Bale (m. 3-Sep-2000, d. 30-Dec-2003 lymphoma)
Boyfriend: Mike Nichols
Boyfriend: Mort Zuckerman
Boyfriend: Mort Sahl
Boyfriend: Jim Brown
Boyfriend: Rafer Johnson
Boyfriend: Frederick Exley
University: Smith College (1956)
Playboy Bunny
Ms.
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Democratic Socialists of America Honorary Chair
Emerge America Advisory Board
Equality Now Advisory Council
Hillary Clinton for President
Women Against Pornography
Steinem was seen as a disgruntled bunny, a privileged journalist, and a snitch.
It was the stigma of being a Playboy bunny, she believes, that stalled her journalistic career.
Ms. Was one of the must successful magazine start ups of the times. Sure, she had help from her male friends at New York Magazine but Steinem continued to finance the venture for the next twenty years through creative means. This system of patriarchal government and money-driven media is something Steinem still rallies against. She continues to help with the editing of Ms. Magazine.
http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/nationalcurriculum/units/2013/3/13.03.12.x.html
The sun rising and setting leaves women plagued with anxiety disorders. Pick any possible causal factor, eliminate it, and they will gravitate to something else to be anxious about. It’s part of the package.
At least with sex, there’s temporary relief from the anxiety. Endorphins are good :)