I thought the same thing. I had a, ‘thank God,’ thought and then...no...the world is shit.

Yes, ‘Animal House’ is still pretty funny except for the creepy voyeurism, the kidnapping and the thirteen year old being raped by a nineteen year old.

YES! ^ THIS! I grew up in the 80’s, so I know exactly what you’re talking about. Those movies were mind-bending for my folks...and really, for us kids, too. Sally Jessie Raphael, Phil Donahue, and even later, Oprah helped to bring the discussions home, too. I can still remember in the very early 90’s, when I was on…

I was saying this recently.

Thank you! I try to explain this to my kids (both are boys), and they look at me with their jaws dropped, in stunned disbelief. It’s hard even to explain to folks 10 or more years my junior. They find this unfathomable, but you’re right- this really is how it was. Our culture, flawed though it is, has improved…

My thoughts, you said them.

I would argue they have too much chill, and it has frozen their hearts and their vaginas.

these nuns have NO chill

Don’t want to follow employment laws? Then get out of the health care and education and adoption fields, stick to operating your religious institutions, and employ no one who isn’t actively involved in your ministry. We don’t need you. Really, we don’t. Frankly, most of us would be better off if you weren’t around to…

That’s it. Close down the comment section. It’s already been won.

You’re a poet. I wish I had more stars to give.

oh ffs just because you decided to sell your vagina to Jesus doesn’t mean the rest of us did.

Would these be the same Christian Brothers involved in child sex abuse basically all over the globe? I can see why they’d be against birth control; they couldn’t have kids (openly) so they needed you to have them for fresh fodder. I am so over religious organizations claiming high ground on sexual morals when they’ve…

Yeah, I want to believe that the friend just took her home and put her to bed because he knew what a wastrel (or whatever they called rapist douchebags in the days of yore) the uncle was.

He’s reflecting values that were passed down for years.

I must be so naive, because when you first said “his friend ended up taking her home” I thought you mean took her to her house so she could sleep it off, not took advantage of her himself. Because surely the majority of guys would see what was wrong and do the right thing in that kind of situation.

That’s not terribly surprising. Sad, but not surprising.

Sadly the truth for so many young women. My aunt has a similar story. She was date-raped by a boyfriend and became pregnant & gave the baby up for adoption. It wasn’t until years later that she actual started calling what happened what it actually was. She thought she just didn’t do “a good job stopping him.” How the…

Women of that generation certainly knew what a date-rapist was. They didn’t call them that. “Masher” was a favored term that suggested levels from unwanted kissing on up to unwanted intercourse. There were other expressions as well.

“the guy tries to get what [he] wants; the woman’s job is to fight him off.” The inability to fend off Gable’s advances constituted a failure on her part — not Gable’s.