Fred 36:

Thank you for an interesting post.

I taught Englit at the U from ’66 to ’71, so I remember the 60′s. The divorce epidemic among the faculty ratboys dumping their faithful old wives for shiny new 20 year old students and trading them in every 2 years. I remember it well.

Something very unfair was done to women back then, perhaps with their collusion, and we are all paying for it now.

Was it something as simple as the so-called sexual revolution resulting in the moron males suddenly concluding that women had no value because they could get for free what they used to have to marry for? I don’t know, but here in Quebec nobody marries and 60% of the babies are to unmarried mothers, 1.2 babies each.

I realize that this may bore the bright and articulate majority of the commenters, but after teaching, I did 3 law degrees (fool) and practised in both languages for 30 years. I am now tired of theorizing and abstractifying and tend toward the anecdotal, but I am pleased to read the elegant juggling of abstractions by the younger commenters. Smart kids.

My point is that I agree; the foolish and destructive 60′s attitudes resulted directly in the current problems. I quite realize that it’s trite to say this, but it still fascinates me because I was standing in front of those classes, looking at all those pretty, smart, naive little brats, watching it all happen. Such a shame.