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Originally posted by ms_gwyn
here are my "subversive" views of the good 'ol USA
This country hates women (really think about it) and is getting more and more purtitanical by the minute. We like the "face" of being progressive, when we really are not at all (as a country).
When we have people making "R" dvd's into "G" dvds for families to watch...COME ON...they weren't meant for families in the first place....where there are less than 75 (being on the nice side) major cities in this country (meaning the major cities are the ones who tend to have more "open" views).
When we still can't talk about sex openly (but I think that is a human thing, but I could be wrong)
And the constant double standards that we have for men and women and if women even get close to crossing those double standards, she is considered a slut, whore, lush and all around "unlady like", just look at some of the discussions going on, on GC, my case and point.
We still hold women to Victorian standards and that has to change.
ok this has turned into some kind of rant and I will get off my soap box and I didn't even mean to get on.
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While I do think the U.S. is growing increasingly more puritanical, I don't think it's going to last. As my daddy pointed out to me, the U.S. now is in a state similar to that of the 1950s -- growing more puritanical, suspicious/paranoid of a certain foreign culture, et cetera. However, what followed the 1950s? Certainly NOT a period of extremely puritan values.
History goes in cycles. There's only so far this country will be pushed before it swings back in the opposite direction.
Yeah, as long as disco doesn't come back I think we'll be fine.
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