Perhaps no better term summarizes our flawed analysis of life than the Law of Unintended Consequences. How often we make confident choices in life only to be confronted days, even years, later by unanticipated results. The feminist movement of the late 60s and early 70s demanded women’s equality, particularly sexual equality. And through their bra-burnings and assorted protests, they were wildly successful with regards to sexual liberation.
Enter The Law of Unintended Consequences.
What nobody anticipated as a result of this sexual freedom is that women would become viewed as sexual commodities. Worse still is that women would treat themselves as commodities.
Today’s New York Daily News features a story in its Gossip section about shock jock Howard Stern. (http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/2008/09/09/2008-09-09_howard_stern_in_virgin_territory.html) Always looking to up the ante of guests willing to demoralize themselves for 15 minutes of fame, Stern today will auction off the virginity of a 22-year-old San Diego girl. Apparently, this girl has decided that prostituting herself will be a lucrative way for her to pay-off her student loans.
Oh, excuse me. Paying off debt? That is a different story. I thought she was doing it merely as a backdoor means of becoming a reality star. How fiscally responsible of her.
"We live in a capitalist society," she tells us. "Why shouldn't I be allowed to capitalize on my virginity?"
And there you go. Once you cheapen sexuality as this society has, you turn it into a commodity that can be bartered like any other good or service. The reason for selling it becomes irrelevant.
How proud her parents must be. An event in a woman’s life that a dinosaur like me believes should be special is warped into a financial transaction.
Wonderful.
Donald Tremblay
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Tuesday, September 9, 2008
Saturday, July 26, 2008
Oh, the Irony
If there weren’t human lives being lost, and many of them at that, the irony would be comical. Liberal feminist groups like NOW made abortion-on-demand their defining issue. What they never anticipated was that this “right” would be used to murder tens of millions of girls. Lifesitenews.com posted an article yesterday announcing that sex-selective abortions are now happening on a “wide scale” in the United States because of the influx of Asian immigrants from countries like China and India where the practice is widespread. (http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/jul/08072401.html) The United Nations says “this practice has already claimed the lives of over 100 million girls worldwide.”
Steven Mosher, president of the Population Research Institute (PRI) is incensed because American feminist groups are silent on the issue:
"Where are the feminists when you need them? . . . I challenge the National Organization of Women," says Mosher, "and other feminist groups, to join us in the battle to ban this terrible form of sex discrimination that is killing so many unborn baby girls. Their continued silence only facilitates the killing."
Mr. Mosher should not hold his breath while waiting for this condemnation. You see, feminist groups have backed themselves into a philosophical corner. To criticize an abortion for any reason violates their 1st commandment: A woman has the right to do whatever she wishes with her body. Any restrictions on choice would compromise this tenet.
A corollary to this commandment is that everything, and everyone, must be sacrificed to the abortion-on-demand cause.
Back in the 1990s when President Clinton was accused of sexual harassing Paula Jones and of receiving oral sex from Monica Lewinsky in the Oval Office, Americans openly wondered why liberal feminist groups were silent. Barely a word was heard in support of these women. Why?
President Clinton was the most pro-choice chief executive in our nation’s history and neither NOW nor or any other liberal feminist group was going to sacrifice his abortion support for any woman, regardless of the circumstances.
Oh, the irony.
Donald Tremblay
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