From: Olga Bourlin (fauxever@sprynet.com)
Date: Tue Dec 24 2002 - 20:52:41 MST
From: "Lee Daniel Crocker" <lee@piclab.com>
replying to:
> > And yet our culture is, if anything, more filed with emptiness > > and
hype than it was then. I doubt that that is lost on the > > young today
either.
>
> What utter hogwash. Only the most willfully blind wouldn't
> recognize that our culture has advanced remarkably as well.
> When I was born, it was still illegal for whites and blacks to
> marry; Politicians could be openly segregationist. Women were> openly
excluded from colleges and a lot of professions, and were> only beginning to
break into politics. Homosexuality wasn't> even discussed in polite
company, and the arrests didn't make> the news. Police didn't bother
tracking down deadbeat fathers--> that was just part of life, as were drunk
driving accidents.
> Hotels and condo associations could and did exclude jews.
> The strict father, friendly uncle, and local priest were never
> suspected of any wrongdoing--a child with bruises or emotional> problems
was just accident prone or introverted. Rape was> tolerated against wives
and women with reputations. Women had> no reproductive choices--the pill
wasn't available yet, and> condoms and abortions were only available in back
alleys and> were things only prostitutes knew about.
>
> Now tell me again how today's culture is "empty" compared to that.
Yes, yes ... and along those lines even more can be said.
Looka here, wonders just never cease. I actually agree with Mr. Lee Daniel
Crocker.
Only disagree about The Pill not being available in the 1960s (it was, and I
gulped down a few in those days ... being awed and appreciative that I was
of THE VERY FIRST GENERATION of women since the dawn of humankind to have
this remarkable pill that provided impeccable birth control).
Also prostitutes weren't the only ones who knew about abortions. Although I
was quite young then, I'd heard of women who'd had abortions - some of them
were married, some were unmarried teenagers, and others were (due mainly to
widowhood and divorce) "single-parent" mothers.
Olga
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