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The sexual revolution was about freedom and bodily autonomy: your existence is about more than being a sexual plaything. You can be a doctor, a professor, a fac
by ikeyany 6y ago
The sexual revolution was about freedom and bodily autonomy: your existence is about more than being a sexual plaything. You can be a doctor, a professor, a factory worker, or a housewife. But the most important part is having the power to make that decision for yourself.
> If I said the above out in the open I would lose my job
Erm no, not quite. Maybe this part:
> the sexual revolution was never about free love or sexual freedom, it was about womens rights to sleep with the few men they are all attracted to
Women should not have their rights limited because some men feel that they are obligated to have sex with them.
- sushisource 6y agoTo be devil's advocate, he never said it wasn't still the right move, just that perhaps the (subtextual) motivation was less than benevolent.
- codingslave 6y agoRead my edit. There were reasons for societies to be sexually conservative. It wasnt random and it wasnt just on the whim of oppressive men.
- watwut 6y agoThe reason was that there was no pill and she would get pregnant and unable to earn money with baby. Which means baby is problem of everybody suddenly.
- ikeyany 6y agoThe sexual revolution did nothing other than allow women the privileges that men already had. If the result of such equality is that people are forming relationships less often than before, then the problem lies in the behaviors of both men AND women, not in the decision to allow women bodily and sexual autonomy in the first place.
- codingslave 6y agoBut the truth is most men never had any privilege. They could get married and get in a monogamous relationship. If they went out and pursued women causally, it wasn't working just like it isn't working now. Its a complete myth that men held the cards. The same high caste men that held the cards back then still hold the cards now.
- ikeyany 6y agoAnd most women never had any privilege either, and often had much less in comparison. Besides, the same high caste people have always held the cards. It's just now that group just isn't exclusive to men in such high numbers.
- downerending 6y agoNo, they shouldn't. But, it appears that everyone exercising what we think of as their deserved rights appears to be taking us to a situation pretty much all of us dislike.
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- mellosouls 6y ago>> If I said the above out in the open I would lose my job >Erm no, not quite. Maybe this part: >> the sexual revolution was never about free love or sexual freedom, it was about womens rights to sleep with the few men they are all attracted to Although his phrasing is a little clumsy, it represents the truth of the report above. Within the singles market, a majority of young men are disenfranchised and alienated and lonely because a majority of women are chasing after a minority of men. Why should he lose his job for stating an uncomfortable truth?