Posted on 05/04/2006 7:03:56 AM PDT by blueminnesota
Aristophanes once imagined a law under which old hags would have the right to demand sex from handsome young guys.
As the feminists of the 1960s get older and uglier, look for these kinds of bills to hit the floor of the House and Senate.
That's great!!
It's a classic :)
UGH... that was funny yet bad... no mention of Saddle Point Methods though.... ;-)
I think Shmuely is from Miami Beach. He's American.
"As the feminists of the 1960s get older and uglier, look for these kinds of bills to hit the floor of the House and Senate."
To quote the comedian Ron White, "Things that make you want to go, 'Bluuuuughhhh' "
Some, in our group we have or had two women who one could say "married down" one is an engineer, and former enliste Army signal corps (at the White House no less) type married to a telephone installer, or something like that. The other is a Software engineer, married to a grounds keeper. Oh, and in both cases the husbands are Hispanic, while the women are not.
Seems to work for them, and it's no ones business but theirs.
Feminists demanding the right to date men who don't like them reminds me of an old Rodney Dangerfield joke:
"Why bother with marriage? Just find a woman you hate and buy her a house!"
I have not read Wolfe's book, but I have discussed its reported contents with my stepdaughters, one of whom attended UC Santa Cruz and one of whom attended Santa Clara University. Their experience was that college students today are not that different from the college students of 30 years ago: sexually active but mostly monogamous.
The author of the posted article seems to think that feminism and overtly sexual advertising and entertainment have caused Americans to objectify and devalue women. Erotic images in the media have certainly become more explicit over the last 60 years or so. Compare the Betty Grable pinups of the 40's to the latest edition of Penthouse. Playboy didn't show pubic hair until the early Seventies, so we've come a long way in just 35 years. It's also true that for some time the dominant theme of American advertising has been "if you use this product, you will get laid by an impossibly attractive person." Sensible people understand the message is nonsense, but they keep buying the products. They do so for the same reason that they are attracted to other erotic images: homo sapiens is a sexual species. Both the male and the female of the species have a primal urge to reproduce. The species would not have survived if this were not true. We have evolved in a way that causes sex to be pleasurable. Had we not done so, we would not have evolved.
However, promiscuity is something else entirely. Nothing in our history of would indicate that promiscuity is a quality that favors the survival of the species. It is in fact becoming even more suicidal. It is therefore pathological. These theories support the ancecdotal evidence of my stepdaughters and my own experience that young Americans are mostly sexual but monogamous.
The author's suggestion that the increased availabilty of erotic imagery has reduced the interest of the American male in most women is just silly. Speaking as a happily married Amrican male, that just ain't true.
This actually scares me to death. I have an exceptionally beautiful daughter (although she's only 8, she's one of those rare people whose beauty can make people audibly gasp - and it's been that way since she was a baby). On top of that, she's Asian by birth (adopted), and the guys I know who seek out Asian girls either want a servant, or a sex slave. Add to that this university atmosphere discussed here, and, like I said, I'm scared to death.
My only saving grace is that she's somewhat of a tomboy, rarely does she look as she does in the pic in my profile. I gues I can also hope she gets kind of dumpy during puberty ;)
On top of all this, she's EXTREMELY intelligent (tests about 3 grade levels above), so skipping college will not be an option either. One good thing is that, of our two kids, the religious/moral teachings we've given have "stuck" the most with her. So what am I left with? Maybe Wheaton or Oral Roberts?
What do you make of his strange opinion of NASCAR?
Excellent post!
This guy was Michael Jackson's buddy...
Must be a Kurt Bush fan.
Frankly, I find her comment to simply scream, "brain-dead-and-terribly-nonsensically-entitled" and I want to laugh....and yet when I am old, she and her ilk will be running what little country we have left. Sobering, to say the least.
Women have to sell their genes to the available male population, normal reproductive behavior. Looking at the extremes that some of the young women in my town go to, my dog Joahanni is more decimate.
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