While the "gays and women" issues may indeed be red herrings designed to distract us from more pressing concerns right now, I believe that social and fiscal issues are inextricably linked.....
You make a good point. We wouldn't be in the mess we are today if "old fashioned" social mores like shame were still commonplace. And our generation of 20-somethings has a sense of entitlement that boggles the mind. In fact, I think the entitlement mentality is the biggest social issue we have to fight. That's the thing that fuels activists like Sandra Fluke to CHOOSE a Catholic school (ie one that would clearly have issues with paying for BC) and then demand that the school change the way it operates to suit her personal, non-Catholic beliefs. A rational person would simply choose a more compatible school. But Gerogetown is a top notch University. And Fluke believes that she's ENTITLED to not only have the best school; but to dictate how said school operates.
Sadly, I don't how we can go about making this generation grow the f**k up. Maybe being forced to struggle in Obama's lousy economy will make them learn.
I, on the other hand, would say "you have a perfect right to have sex however and whenever and with whomever you want, but some types of sexual/personal behavior are destructive and unhealthy, and while they will certainly not be *outlawed* or formally punished, they will be strongly discouraged through social/cultural pressure."
I hate it when people act of if that statement is just the slut-shaming ramblings of religious nuts. There is a middle ground between "anything goes" and "brand every unwed mother with a scarlet A".
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Date: 2012-10-30 05:22 am (UTC)You make a good point. We wouldn't be in the mess we are today if "old fashioned" social mores like shame were still commonplace. And our generation of 20-somethings has a sense of entitlement that boggles the mind. In fact, I think the entitlement mentality is the biggest social issue we have to fight. That's the thing that fuels activists like Sandra Fluke to CHOOSE a Catholic school (ie one that would clearly have issues with paying for BC) and then demand that the school change the way it operates to suit her personal, non-Catholic beliefs. A rational person would simply choose a more compatible school. But Gerogetown is a top notch University. And Fluke believes that she's ENTITLED to not only have the best school; but to dictate how said school operates.
Sadly, I don't how we can go about making this generation grow the f**k up. Maybe being forced to struggle in Obama's lousy economy will make them learn.
I, on the other hand, would say "you have a perfect right to have sex however and whenever and with whomever you want, but some types of sexual/personal behavior are destructive and unhealthy, and while they will certainly not be *outlawed* or formally punished, they will be strongly discouraged through social/cultural pressure."
I hate it when people act of if that statement is just the slut-shaming ramblings of religious nuts. There is a middle ground between "anything goes" and "brand every unwed mother with a scarlet A".