@IamMrsG wrote:
I have refrained from joining this topic, but I must address this post:
@Goldengate8361 wrote:
Girl power is great. More men need to be fired.
As I inject my 2¢ into this thread, it is with full acknowledgment that it is exactly that–my 2¢. Take it or leave it, but don’t expect me to debate it as I will not be pulled into the fray.
When our now nearly forty-year-old child was in the third grade, he and I struggled with his wanting to keep current with his friends. Back then, the slasher movies, chainsaw massacre types, were popular. Our son was not, however, because he was the only one among his peers not allowed to watch them. I distinctly remember explaining to him that what entertains us will eventually be accepted as lifestyle. Sadly, I believe time has proved me somewhat prophetic. <tic>
It is my earnest belief that our whole society is to blame for this shame. The piper must be paid, and the bill has come due for decades of lowered moral standards, acceptance of “anything goes.” In my lifetime, I see it as beginning as far back as the 60s, the time of Free Love. The natural progression went to the acceptance of single parent households (remember when they were called unwed mothers?). Mode of dress has become increasingly less modest through the decades. Consider the way the women we've allowed to assume the position of role models present themselves, e.g, Miley Cyrus, Lady Gaga, the Kardashians, etc. ‘Song’ (I use that term loosely) lyrics, aimed at the younger generation, are filled with references to “hos” and sexual assault.
So that I am not misunderstood, let me say un-categorically that I am in no way dismissing or excusing those guilty of rape or blatant sexual assault. I would gladly personally sentence those to a special place in hell. What I am trying to say is that through the decades, we have all blurred the line between flirtation and harassment. Now we don’t like it, so the pendulum is beginning to swing back the other way. And lives are being ruined in the process by thirty, forty year old memories that were in large part tolerated at the time for fear of being called prudish by the school of popular thought.
I will finish with one more prediction, and I sincerely hope to be wrong. Another area in which our standards have drastically declined is in the valuation of education. Grammar is abominable and excused. Putting together two correct sentences seems to be a challenge, but as long as “u get what I mean,” what’s the big deal? Without a computer, the simple act of making or giving change is difficult. I could go on with examples, you could probably give your own, but the point is that invoice to pay the piper will come due someday, too.
With the exception of the grammar, what you are speaking of is lack of morals, and i agree ,we have excepted so much in our society.
When you lose some one you L~O~V~E, that Memory of them, becomes a TREASURE.
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