Didn't make Oprah's Book Club.
And Ronnie doesn't care.
Man up.
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DadWithGirls
whraglyn’s point is beyond refute.
Think about it.
How could America be the seed of defilement and moral debauchery?
We’re only 230 years old as a nation.
The Euros have a 2000 year-old head start on spreading slime across the planet, if you count the Vikings and the Druids.
Too bad the Druids didn’t have digital media.
They were discrete about their cultural imperialism. Lacked the technology for true cultural penetration.
America?
We’re like Vikings with satellite networks… beaming the ideology of Valhalla right into your home!
Muslim girls go crazy over Clay Aiken. (And scarily, Muslim boys love Barry Manilow…)
And, just to make the cultural offense complete — we were not invited.
DadWithGirls
whraglyn’s point is beyond refute.
Think about it.
How could America be the seed of defilement and moral debauchery?
We’re only 230 years old as a nation.
The Euros have a 2000 year-old head start on spreading slime across the planet, if you count the Vikings and the Druids.
Too bad the Druids didn’t have digital media.
They were discrete about their cultural imperialism. Lacked the technology for true cultural penetration.
America?
We’re like Vikings with satellite networks… beaming the ideology of Valhalla right into your home!
Muslim girls go crazy over Clay Aiken. (And scarily, Muslim boys love Barry Manilow…)
And, just to make the cultural offense complete — we were not invited.
whraglyn
Ain’t it funny how the EuroElites always blame us for simply emulating and adopting the sleaze they orginate.
From the raunchiest porn and sports mobs to the haute-est chic and post-modernist Dadaism; from UN corruption and genocidal negligence to pandemic arms dealing and union slacker culture, it is Europe which ever leads the way down.
We _are_ foolish enough to follow, but it’s still funny they blame us for the ills of the world.
What’s not funny is how much of the world seems only too happy to go along with it.
whraglyn
Ain’t it funny how the EuroElites always blame us for simply emulating and adopting the sleaze they orginate.
From the raunchiest porn and sports mobs to the haute-est chic and post-modernist Dadaism; from UN corruption and genocidal negligence to pandemic arms dealing and union slacker culture, it is Europe which ever leads the way down.
We _are_ foolish enough to follow, but it’s still funny they blame us for the ills of the world.
What’s not funny is how much of the world seems only too happy to go along with it.
DadWithGirls
Well, to quote Chris Rock, I’m pretty sure that despite endless misunderstandings, most Christian and Muslim fathers would agree that -
“Our job is to keep our daughters off the pole!”
Seriously, anybody who has traveled much internationally knows that America’s raunch culture is a big P.R. problem.
International tourism and the marketing of other countries as hedonistic “paradises” where American’s can go and behave badly in ways that they never would at home have not helped.
Believe it or not, most of the world really doesn’t care about deformities like Paris Hilton, Anna Nicole Smith, Desperate Housewives, or any of the other myriad tabloid fem-celebs representing the best of American womanhood in mass media beamed around the planet.
Until the U.S. can demonstrate that Mideast political democracy does not mean cultural debauchery, our version of “freedom” is going to be a tough sell.
I have found it interesting that the girls over at N.O.W. have been so silent on this issue of cultural differences as they relate to the acceptible feminist definitions of women’s roles in Muslim countries.
DadWithGirls
Well, to quote Chris Rock, I’m pretty sure that despite endless misunderstandings, most Christian and Muslim fathers would agree that -
“Our job is to keep our daughters off the pole!”
Seriously, anybody who has traveled much internationally knows that America’s raunch culture is a big P.R. problem.
International tourism and the marketing of other countries as hedonistic “paradises” where American’s can go and behave badly in ways that they never would at home have not helped.
Believe it or not, most of the world really doesn’t care about deformities like Paris Hilton, Anna Nicole Smith, Desperate Housewives, or any of the other myriad tabloid fem-celebs representing the best of American womanhood in mass media beamed around the planet.
Until the U.S. can demonstrate that Mideast political democracy does not mean cultural debauchery, our version of “freedom” is going to be a tough sell.
I have found it interesting that the girls over at N.O.W. have been so silent on this issue of cultural differences as they relate to the acceptible feminist definitions of women’s roles in Muslim countries.
wheresmy40
The immediate threat to our country comes from enemies within the borders. Those who are wreaking havoc on our culture, language, education, courts, legal system and values, are destroying America. Their agendas are more easily concealed but just as lethal as conventional weapons.
wheresmy40
The immediate threat to our country comes from enemies within the borders. Those who are wreaking havoc on our culture, language, education, courts, legal system and values, are destroying America. Their agendas are more easily concealed but just as lethal as conventional weapons.
fourthwire
Among American expatriates married to foreign nationals in Europe, a recurring theme among them seemed to mirror your neighbor’s opinion.
Some of those individuals refused to relocate to America, even accepting considerable career penalties until their children were grown, in order to avoid immersing their children in America’s public school systems as well as American “popular culture”.
fourthwire
Among American expatriates married to foreign nationals in Europe, a recurring theme among them seemed to mirror your neighbor’s opinion.
Some of those individuals refused to relocate to America, even accepting considerable career penalties until their children were grown, in order to avoid immersing their children in America’s public school systems as well as American “popular culture”.
mruffolo
My neighbor who has a 15 daughter, and another younger child, moved out of America because he did not like the school system and culture. He and his family moved to a conservative eastern European country.
mruffolo
My neighbor who has a 15 daughter, and another younger child, moved out of America because he did not like the school system and culture. He and his family moved to a conservative eastern European country.
A reader (thanks!) sent me a link to a CNN story on Dr. Philip G. Zimbardo and Nikita Duncan’s new book The Demise of Guys: Why Boys Are Struggling and What We Can Do About It. The article discusses how porn and video games are ruining a generation of guys: Is the overuse of video […]