The Left’s Double Standard
Let’s return to Burgo’s initial commendation of shame: “shame may also serve as a force for good when we direct it at behavior damaging to the social fabric.” As noted above, liberals have certainly employed shame for certain pet causes, usually related to environmentalism or the sexual revolution. Herein lies the double standard.
Sociologists such as W. Bradford Wilcox at the University of Virginia for decades have noted the tremendous damage divorce — another project of the sexual revolution — has done to America’s social fabric. Children exposed to divorce are more likely than their peers in intact marriages to suffer from serious social or psychological pathologies. Adolescents with divorced parents are more likely to drop out of high school when compared to children from intact families. Adolescent girls with divorced parents are three times more likely to become teen mothers, while their male counterparts are twice as likely to spend time in prison.
The effects of divorce are a huge drain on our nation’s wealth and resources. If the United States enjoyed the same level of family stability today as it did in 1960, one sociologist has estimated that the nation would have 750,000 fewer children repeating grades, 1.2 million fewer school suspensions, approximately 500,000 fewer acts of teenage delinquency, about 600,000 fewer kids receiving therapy, and about 70,000 fewer suicide attempts every year. Wilcox’s research has found similar detrimental effects caused by cohabitation.
Yet our culture, media, and dominant institutions have not only abandoned any kind of shame attached to divorce, cohabitation, or other deleterious side-effects of the sexual revolution (e.g. abortion on demand, pornography); we promote them as an intrinsic part of our freedom to pursue our own life goals and self-actualization.
Sex Scandals Reveal How The Left Uses Shame To Destroy Morality
well Shame used to be a thing ....
a Female was 'shamed' if she was pregnant and not married - Scarlett Letter anyone ...
a couple was 'shamed' and shuned by the family if the just shacked up and did not get married
you were 'shamed' if you got a divorce
someone was shamed it it was found out they were queer
but the left has told us - that is all just about sex, quit judging people ......
Let’s return to Burgo’s initial commendation of shame: “shame may also serve as a force for good when we direct it at behavior damaging to the social fabric.” As noted above, liberals have certainly employed shame for certain pet causes, usually related to environmentalism or the sexual revolution. Herein lies the double standard.
Sociologists such as W. Bradford Wilcox at the University of Virginia for decades have noted the tremendous damage divorce — another project of the sexual revolution — has done to America’s social fabric. Children exposed to divorce are more likely than their peers in intact marriages to suffer from serious social or psychological pathologies. Adolescents with divorced parents are more likely to drop out of high school when compared to children from intact families. Adolescent girls with divorced parents are three times more likely to become teen mothers, while their male counterparts are twice as likely to spend time in prison.
The effects of divorce are a huge drain on our nation’s wealth and resources. If the United States enjoyed the same level of family stability today as it did in 1960, one sociologist has estimated that the nation would have 750,000 fewer children repeating grades, 1.2 million fewer school suspensions, approximately 500,000 fewer acts of teenage delinquency, about 600,000 fewer kids receiving therapy, and about 70,000 fewer suicide attempts every year. Wilcox’s research has found similar detrimental effects caused by cohabitation.
Yet our culture, media, and dominant institutions have not only abandoned any kind of shame attached to divorce, cohabitation, or other deleterious side-effects of the sexual revolution (e.g. abortion on demand, pornography); we promote them as an intrinsic part of our freedom to pursue our own life goals and self-actualization.
Sex Scandals Reveal How The Left Uses Shame To Destroy Morality
well Shame used to be a thing ....
a Female was 'shamed' if she was pregnant and not married - Scarlett Letter anyone ...
a couple was 'shamed' and shuned by the family if the just shacked up and did not get married
you were 'shamed' if you got a divorce
someone was shamed it it was found out they were queer
but the left has told us - that is all just about sex, quit judging people ......
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