Baby Boomers - They'll Have a Lot to Answer For...

Free love: Was there a price to pay? : "Baby boomers are chucking down Viagra and sticking on hormone patches so they can still enjoy sex, Coleman says. And their children — in some cases, their grandchildren — are dirty dancing in school gyms, making pornography as a statement of feminist power, using condoms at increasing rates and most of all, talking about sex in ways that were virtually impossible before the 1960s. "

Well, hip hip hooray! Aren't we proud? What an achievement. What a legacy left behind by the "revolutionaries" of the 1960's. It seems we still are insisting on looking at this mess we've made and calling it a great "success". Where is the success? How have we benefitted, what have we gained from this social experiment? I can't find one single solitary upside to the "free love" concept or the subsequent ripples it sent out to the larger culture and to future generations.

Why do women insist on seeing sex as a weapon to be turned against men for their own defense and self-preservation? The men who used their strength and authority to pursue women as sex objects are not threatened by a woman with "sexual power". They are relieved to not have to work so hard at it any longer! "Taking control" of your body and your sexuality, and your fertility, does not entitle a woman to act like the worst of men behaving badly. Rather, it should mean recommitting oneself to the virtues which sought to protect the dignity and honor of women.

What are these virtues? Modesty, chastity, humility, femininity, and an inclination towards children and mothering. Oh how old-fashioned! How naive! How unsophisticated! I can see the feminists and the young modern 20-somethings all roll their eyes at once. But the truth is that they kid themselves into thinking they are liberated women. Truly, they are enslaved more than ever before. The amount of self-delusion and denial and blindness, numbness required of them to eat this crap and then tell us all how delicious it tastes is staggering. For them it must be exhausting as well.

How much longer will they go on pretending it doesn't hurt? How many more generations of girls will be raised to believe that their bodies are to be used as weapons or as bargaining chips for power and control? How many more women will miss the joy, the privilege of being a woman because they have avoided motherhood in all its forms - biological, emotional and spiritual? They go through life saying "I am woman. Hear me roar." But all the while they speak without a woman's voice and act without a woman's heart, trying in vain to mimic men - something they can never be.

If we want our men and our young boys to grow up to be men who love, adore, respect, and appreciate women for their unique and special abilities and gifts then we must lift up our brothers by making them rise to the occassion. If we deny our own roles and reject the very virtues which elevate us we do not liberate ourselves. A woman who acts like a man will be treated not as his equal but rather as his competitor, his rival. Men are all about beatingout the competition you know. Women are they great collaborators, the ones who cooperate in all things. A woman who denies her own womanhood and then calls it "power" puts herself at the greatest disadvantage possible. She becomes not a wolf in sheep's clothing but a sheep in wolf's clothing. She goes out among many wolves who'll sniff her out in a second!