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Why I stopped taking the Independent Women Forum at all seriously.

"[T]o the extent there is any hope at all of arresting America's moral decay, conservative elites must take the lead not only in lamenting the consequences of the sexual revolution, but in actually enforcing a sense of shame. Enforcement, moreover, may mean more than judgmental gossip. It also may mean sanctions ranging from chilly social greetings to total social ostracism and even loss of a job."- Melinda Ledden Sidak, "Not at My Table."

I don't particularly care what 'consequences' she doesn't like, because somehow, I suspect that she thinks that women who are targets of it can just move and find a job somewhere else.

Some people think married women deciding not to have children is one of the 'consequences of the sexual revolution.' Not to mention, yes, there have always been single, without child women out there, but one part of the sexual revolution is they did not feel they needed to rely on the support of their family if they do not marry. Openly bisexual women, yep, someone might think that is another sign of social decay.

I don't know what the entirety of IWF think, but I doubt they object if someone applied these 'sanctions.'

There is no nice and polite way to put it. Screw you girls, I'm going home.

(I remember Abigail Thernstrom because her daughter Melanie wrote this book about a friend of hers who was murdered by her boyfriend. The book ended up being all about the daughter, her friends, and her break-up. Affecting, but considering her mother's organization's work against the Violence Against Women Act, I wonder how the story would end for Melanie if her friend Roberta's family could not afford decent lawyers. I am not sure if her mother thought about it. Her last book seemed better, the account of a Harvard student who stabbed her roommate and hung herself.)

"A million people can respond with the old standby answer: "People are afraid of what is different." I can tolerate that excuse for only so long, however. This is ME. Why are people afraid of me? Why would anyone be afraid of ME?" How is how a lot of women living their lives and hurting no one threatening? Why do some people assume every change is sign of decline? Has it occured to them that decent education of women and universal suffrage was considered signs of decline back in the day? How about access to birth control? They are smart women, they know about how ill-treated problems of the female reproductive system traditionally were (and in some areas, still are). Why when feminist organizations apologized for using over-inflated statistics of death form anorexia and bulimia, they have yet to apologize for not noting that causes of death can be physical breakdowns related to the main case, as in heart failure put down instead of anorexia?

Don't mind me, just a "hypocritical, male-bashing libertine" working in a pink-collar job.