Feminism - what went wrong?
Without a doubt things had to change for women. It is only the ignorant and weak who would question that statement. We’re not going to go into detail about the horrific circumstances of women back in the day – the residual effects of unrestrained patriarchal power are still in effect today. This is not an expose` on any particular gender, rather it is an attack on decadence.
The misinterpretation by both men and women of the meaning of women’s liberation is what is causing the collapsing souffle` of society.
In barely acceptable ways, advertisers (cars, fashion, cigarettes, booze), movie moguls (limp-wristed screenwriters, wannabes, music video producers, the soft pornographers and publishers began to push the boundaries of ‘decency’. Ande next one would come along and push another boundary a little further. With an increasing force on every front, the bastion of wholesomeness was attacked, bit by bit, brick by brick with discussions and rantings by so-called lawyers defending ‘ constitutional rights of freedom of expression and talk radio, late show TV hosts and pseudo psychologists justifying, substantiating. Eventually that wholesome world crumbled, families were sent into disarray and society deteriorated into a paper mache` of decay.
There are two institutions of western culture which need to be singled out for particular vilification and attention: Hustler and Playboy. They began the trend, fanned it into a raging fire, played to the baser element of the young male and confused vulnerable young women and the incidents of incest and child abuse dramatically increased as well as an outrageous rise in prostitution naturally followed by a useless attempt at soul soothing – narcotics. Is anyone still around to remember the arguments put forth by learned sounding idiots who declared that there was no scientific evidence to prove that pornography had any relationship to sexual crimes?
One of the prime instruments of cause was Madonna – in her own way carving a headstrong statement with some validity but mostly simply tarnished and tawdry. Then along came Brittany Spears who began as wholesome and then joined the tidal wave of sleazy behavior (thanks to her ‘handlers’ who made her and themselves rich) at the cost of further deteriorating the fortress of America’s true strength and unique aspect. After that it became a free-for-all of image after image of younger and younger, semi naked young girls dancing like strippers. Sex sells but sex that wealth comes with a terrible price and becomes a tidal wave of woe.
The fact that the streets are becoming unsafe for women to walk in freedom is enough of a testament to the previous statement.
As for the other aspects of women’s freedom, the battle is still being fought and some progress has been made but not at the cancerous rate of spread of the abuse of that noble cause. It takes only a little to infect and a lot to cure.
The statement by Ellen G. White echoes true even today: “Guard well the avenues of your soul”. Careful what you put into your mind and your body. “As a man thinketh, so shall he be”.
posted by Unknown @ 1:42 AM
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