I wouldn't entirely agree.
There was age based discrimination beforehand. Prior to the sexual revolution, guys started second families and had to spend a lot of time and effort, wooing and providing. There were many times where the first wife discovers those business trips where actually trips to play house with family number 2, where he had that son other than just daughters, etc. Today, the guys that have priorities of age and who want to start over fresh like that don't have to worry about the wooing, the providing, etc. They live their life, let one girl enter it, when she gets older replaces her with a new younger version. They don't have to worry about financial affairs or extra work for wooing for both parties are aware of the situation they are entering from the signing of the prenup. Guy's who want this kind of lifestyle make sure one is signed, girls who don't mind sign.
Women have always competed against each other. If anything, now it's calmer because the stakes aren't that high. Before they had to compete with the stakes being their futures. Whoever they ended up courting and marrying ended up deciding their future. They had to pick wisely. If the guy ends up not being able to financially support them or likes to have affairs on the side, the wife couldn't really do anything about it. It became her problem and burden to accept in life. Now, we can move in with a person before marriage, learn their work ethic, can work for our own money, we can dump a guy for cheating and not be stigmatized.
Do women get dumped more often now? Yes. But now we can dump men too. Now it's about what both of us want, and not what we need to fit into society's standards.
Women have to work harder... I'm not quite sure in what sense you're talking about. Literally, we have more job opportunities than prior to the sexual revolution, and because of the sexual revolution we are no longer dependent on guys to provide for our wellbeing, so yes a direct result is that we have to work more to provide for ourselves. I don't view that negatively though. I am glad of the opportunity to work for myself. I am glad I have the option to go do challenging work, I plan to take it.
If you meant work harder as in to work to appear more attractive, well I think it has remained about the same if not gotten easier. Girls had to put on an act to appear to be the perfect future housewife. They had to learn to dress, to cook, to clean, to make drinks, to be silent, to entertain, to be absent when not wanted, etc. Now, girls work hard only to look physically appealing to promote sex. If a girl doesn't want to put in that effort, they don't have to, and they can still be open to receiving male attention. It's made my life easier, because frankly I"m not the best at entertaining, and having to fret about learning to do so or I would be an inadequate wife is a lot of pressure I don't want.
More access to unpaid sex? Yes. Is that bad? I think not.
Yes, I definitely agree that has happened. But it's also given women the freedom to enjoy sex with more than one partner in their lives, whereas before, a guy could have a few and the woman had to be a virgin. Now, guys get a lot more, but women get some fun too. For that luxury, I take the backlash that comes with it. Nothing would p*ss me off more than being forced to marry a guy that got to have his fun, while I was restricted to just him or I couldn't get married. I'd resent him in our sex life. If I CHOOSE to do that, that's one thing. But before the revolution, there was no choice.
I agree, partly. But am not sure if we're just taking the current situation and somehow working backwards to justify it! I'm a guy and have know from my parents generation as to what a number of flings can do to all concerned -- specially the kids. I'm not sure "freedom" is freedom. If given the choice, I'd say both guys and women should stay faithful to each other. We need other ways to work out our sexuality. Just as slavery was once acceptable, we may look down on sexual exploitation too.
Well the sexual revolution is a relatively new thing, so I think we as a society have gone to the other extreme. It will balance out eventually. I do think though that there needs to be fairness. My only issue with the past was that women were expected to restrict their sexual desires, while men didn't have to. If both were required to stay virgins, that's great. But it wasn't like that. So I'm all for the fairness that this revolution has brought.
The sexual revolution failed in the sense that most American's aren't being educated on sex.
All of the unfortunate events are really just unintended backlashes; face age discrimination was always an issue, as was competition within the sex, and working necessarily hard for a particular appearance isn't new either, but I'm not sure about the dumping rate :P
And women aren't the only one's experiencing the brunt of the revolution.
yeah you can just trade up when the one you have is getting old, no need any longer to attach yourself to a girl that puts out for multiple guys, just trade in for a younger hotter model
Imagine you were the kid in the family; what would this have done to you? Leave aside that! When it's time for me to become a granddad, I don't want to go about wooing a girl in her twenties. Earning for another lifetime, so that she (and the fresh set of kids) can have a life, and continually running up the treadmill!
who said anything about kid, come on man I'm not a fool
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