Great post.
Good Lord! I worked in a psychiatric hospital for 27 years and psychotic people talk like that. I just couldn’t believe the utter insanity of those statements.
I forget what I was going to write about when I sat down because those words were so nutty.
Two points: I don’t know what it’s like with the women you know but with the ones I know it’s forbidden to talk about stuff like that unless you want to disriupt the occasion or possibly lose “a friend”.
I have already lost one because I said I agreed with George W Bush. We talked about it over lunch last October. When we went to our cars, we usually hugged. When I moved towards her, she backed away like I was a rapist.
I don’t miss the friendship. She is a liar.
She is 82 and was a chaplain at Berkeley during the 60′s. When I asked her what the students involved were like, she said that they were just young people in suits and ties who wanted a greater voice in the their life at the university.
Really? Are these the same students who were led by people like Mario Savio, a graduate student in mathematics at Berkeley in 1964 and who said in one edition of “Look”, “I study mathematics because my brain needs the patterns to feed on”. The reason I remember the statement was the pretentious, self-aggrandizing quality of it, not unusual among liberals who fancy themselves as “intellectuals”.
He was also part of the “Student As Nigger” movement which is one of the dumbest things I have ever heard. If there was ever a generation that was not oppressed, and it was the Baby Boomers.
It was about that time that the Baby Boom Generation was beginning to realize its strength in numbers and begin its assault on civilized values led by the descendents of the Communist movement. They are called “The Red Diaper” babies whose parents had emigrated from Eastern Europe and brought a new poisonous strain of politics to this country. Compare Hubert Humphrey and and Ted Kennedy.
It has resulted in the current state of the Democratic Party.
A second point is what the feminist movement has done to women, especially this generation, Generation Y and the Millennials(sic), as they have been nick-named.
They have no way of relating positively to men, believe that to love a man is to submit to slavery and have been condemned to a life of ideological servitude by people like Marilyn French and Andrea Dworkin.
Great for the lesbians but hell for them.
One last thing (you really hit a nerve, babes). I have received five different phone calls from
women I knew in the past wanting to resume our friendships.
I laughed to myself and politely declined. I don’t think that older guys will find that unusual.
I remember the meanness and viciousness of the”Male Chauvinist Pig” days.
Maybe Jesus, The Buddha and Socrates weren’t such bad guys after all.
