I beg to differ; I am what you would call an old man now and that type of behavior has never been acceptable.
I was raised by my Father and Mother to be a GENTLEMAN at ALL TIMES with women.
Had my Father or Mother ever been told of that type of behavior on my part, they would have beaten me until I couldn’t crawl.
My parents not only taught me and expected me to be a man of chivalry, they DEMANDED it.
“Socially acceptable” does not mean it was endorsed.
Beating your wife up until the 1950’s was not endorsed but it was socially acceptable.
Drinking and driving was not endorsed but it was socially acceptable.
Covenants, codes, and restrictions attached to title deeds that segregated neighborhoods were sometime endorsed AND they were socially acceptable.
It’s how things were.
And men used to grab women’s butts, they used to make wolf calls, they used to say crude things, and the prevailing wisdom of those times was to say, “Boys will be boys!”
It doesn’t mean I approve. It just means I don’t judge older people by newer standards.
You know the newer standards?
The ones that say that homosexuality is socially acceptable and endorsed? Or that white people are forever guilty of slavery? Or that the people in the South MUST hate themselves for the acts of the Confederacy?
Or that America is always wrong? And that our Constitution unfairly oppresses dictatorial leftists?
Yeah, if a man who fought for my freedom and risked being eaten alive by the Japanese played a little grab ass then don’t mind me if I’m not going to judge him by the standards of modern day bull dyke feminists.
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