I’m a 31 yr old man, never married, hope to get married and have children soon.
My female peers, though… I love them, some of them love or have loved me, but it is difficult to avoid the feeling that the current public culture has provided a very effective arsenal of rhetorical weapons that only serve the purpose of justifying bad behavior. It is argued that this is superior to the prior regime, which (allegedly, in some cases legally) only allowed such outlets to men. That is, of course, exactly the kind of stupidity that results from the idea of Equality Uber Alles: misery is generalized.
What is the actual lesson of Sex and the City? Women are f—ing unhappy outside the traditional arrangements. Whereas they were allegedly unhappy in specific, prescribed ways under the former inequitable marital regime, now they are free to be miserable in myriad, wholly new ways, and ruin lives with the available law – especially their children’s – in the process.
But of course so are men, I think, unhappy outside the traditional arrangements. And where women are prohibited from education and employment, it is only humane that the law protect them in the war of annihilation that divorce can so easily become.
Yet here we stand on the other side of the sexual revolution: birth control, abortion, tongue rings and tatoos, co-ed dorm bathrooms, female majorities in colleges, law schools, and med schools, the whole legally-mandated equity as applied through the 14th Amendment, among other legal devices.
Fine.
But still: the world’s beings are not equal.
If 70% of divorces are initiated by women, this has more to do with women than it does with men. The law does incentivize, and people respond to incentives I agree but… 70%?
Equally, the black out-of-wedlock birthrate is over 70%?
Are people not a little shocked out of their pieties by these statistics?
In my opinion, the 60s Revolution essentially won – but, like all Revolutions, not only was it mostly a sham, but it has gone on for too long, is incapable of recognizing its own victory, and is now devouring its young.
American society will correct itself, I think. But we are in the nasty twilight time, the old ideas are dead, except privately, and we can only attempt to live by the good, old NATURAL example, despite the risks, until the correction occurs.
The country will in general be much better off once the Baby Boomers are dead or drifted off onto senility. I’m sorry to conclude that but I think any honest observer could come to no other conclusion. Thanks a lot for breaking all our chicks (although the easy oral sex was nice, thanks!).
