by Art Schneider

Created on: August 29, 2009

Unfortunately, I'd have to say 'yes'. When I was young girls or women basically set the standard for decent behavior. If you wanted to be with them then you'd have to meet their criteria. It made playboys into men and gave all males a sense of 'correctness'. This is not blame women for not doing this now (they have enough to think about), but it is just the way it was.

Personally, I feel that 'modern' relationships have come about due to four historical forces which formed a kind of perfect storm. The 'sex, drugs, and rock & roll' era beginning in the 50s gave young people an excuse to do what young people have always wanted to do-ignore the rules and just do whatever. Later as parents, they did the same and raised their children without respect for rules, norms, hard work, self-respect, or humility-just look at what we have today: miserable children who (by 8th grade standards) can't read, write, or critically think-much less build anything or make good decisions. But there were more forces at play: Socialism, beginning after WWII, attacked our government while also giving people more excuses to belittle authority and be unhappy. In the current (Obama) administration, socialism's ideal of wealth redistribution is obvious. Radical race advocacy, beginning the 50s attacked white culture and helped to create a sense that minorities should be given a pass on standards due to past inequities. White guilt continues to be used to create every possible excuse for simply giving US blacks things they have not, in fact, earned. Feminism, beginning in 1963, started as a movement to give women access to the resources of self-determination, but was co-opted by those who wanted power without merit into a fascist machine that has nothing less than the destruction of men, boys, and the traditional family as its stated goals.

Brilliantly, feminism attacked the US educational system and began to take root in the late 70s. For more than 30 years there has been a progressive attack on boys and anything 'male' in the k-12 system, eventually and inevitably spreading to colleges and universities. Women became much more sexually aggressive (as men became terrified to move, lest they be accused of sexual harassment), and began to state in growing numbers that they 'did not need men'. Men became sexual objects, marriage became passe. Pacified by their k-12 indoctrination, court systems that all but ignored their rights, and a culture that increasingly portrays them as incompetent

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