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njlauren -> RE: Human Civilizaation is doomed (12/25/2013 11:08:29 AM)
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The oldest complaint in the world is how the youth are going to destroy civilization, back in the 1950's it was the 'wild bunch' kind of thing, in the 60's and 70's it was the hippies, then we had generation Y who would all end up with McJobs and living on their parents couch (didn't work out like that for many), the millenials were going to be a bunch of layabouts, etc...the youth of the 1930's was accused by their elders of being lazy, self consumed losers, who didn't want to work, and they miraculously turned into the 'greatest generation' that people have orgasms over....
My favorite was a line I read "The youth of today is going to be the end of our civilization. They respect neither their elders,nor divinity, and think the world owes them something, and they are rude to others, yet take offense at what people say to them easily". The line was written around 4000 years ago in Ancient Babylon:).
Yeah, I see what young women are wearing these days, and I am of two minds about it. When I was a teen, back in the late 70's, where I lived a lot of the girls were dressing a la the feminist revolution, it was all jeans and sweatshirts and sneakers, and it has changed a lot, and in some ways I admire the openness, but it is also sad to see that they often are doing a follow the herd, too, they aren't really rebelling, not really all that much different than when I was growing up. As far as there not being appropriate clothing in the stores for young women, there is, there is clothing that would make them look very nice and feminine, but the herd mentality means that the slutwear sells. What is really scary is what young girls are wearing,I am talking 10,11,12, and they aren't the ones buying it. My son went to a prep school when he was in grade school, full of well off kids, and the kids were hypersexual, the girls were wearing makeup and things like push up bras as 11,12, it was really sad (fortunately for my sanity, the school he went into in middle school had more normal kids, don't know why). That to me isn't about freedom, that is parents letting their kids get sexualized because they simply don't want to act as parents..teen girls are learning how to be women, and in many ways they have to reach out and grow, and while as parents it is hard, they will do things we don't like. Maybe it is because I went through that when I attempted transition, but it is very common, M to F transwomen are often like teen girls, it is very easy to go crazy, with makeup and sexy clothing and such, it takes a while to realize that in real life, most women don't dress like that all the time:).
I have to admit I am amazed at the kind of heels women wear now, 20 years ago you would see those at fetish clubs, now they are mainstream. I had a good laugh a couple of years ago, my firms Christmas party was in a place at 14th and 9th (the old meatpacking district in NYC, now uber chic), seeing the young women in dresses that covered little and wearing spike heels and so forth, tottering around to the clubs and such, and laughing, remembering when the area at night had denizes of the various fetish/S-M clubs (now long gone), or trans prostitutes, and thinking the more things change, how they often stay the same:)
And yeah, I do find myself saying things, then wanting to gag myself, because I do start saying things like my parents, how NYC was a lot more exciting when I was young, how the kids don't seem motivated, etc *lol*.
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