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Actually, it is not only gender roles that are becoming extinct. So are you. You people, like the western europeans you so desire to emulate, are not producing enough children to replace your numbers. You're culture is.....dying.
White liberals may well be becoming more "liberal." That doesn't mean the other demographics in this country are adopting your values tho.
What exactly ARE my values - do you really know? And yes, other demographics actually are becoming more liberal... I'd have to pull up the stats, but I've read a few polls showing African Americans and Hispanic Americans are now more accepting of gay marriage (as one example). I think it's a majority of them now, but again I'd have to pull up the stats to say for sure.
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Our erstwhile mexican, central american, and asian immigrants all represent traditional cultures. It was the black churches along with the mormon church that are largely reponsible for proposition 8 passing. The people of my part of the country are still just as traditional as they've always been. Honest, you won't find anyone around here dressing our little boys in little girls clothing. Honest.
We don't know that without checking every school in your area, but I'll take your word for it... and unless this boy is planning a move to Arkansas, I doubt he really cares what you're doing there. I'm glad you're happy, though! I like where I live too, so it seems we're both in agreement on that.
Advocating for a minimum standard of modesty = being puritanical?
Um, yeah - pretty much!
(well, at least when bikinis are considered immodest for a beach volleyball competition)
Btw, did you answer my question about children visiting beaches and swimming pools? I'm wondering how you feel about that, since you think bikinis aren't appropriate for children to see.
Somewhere between sheltering a young boy from the female form in athletic swimwear, and letting him go to school looking like Lady Gaga is something called the societal norm. Do you seriously mean to suggest that not allowing one's own son to wear a dress to school is puritanical?
Btw, being "liberal" isn't a culture - it's a political/social leaning, and a rather vague one at that. I'm a libertarian, for example, so my specific beliefs will differ from your typical Democrat. My cultural identity is Slavic-Jewish and American, not liberal or Californian (especially since I'm not originally from CA).
Emphasis on social. I typically use the term secular humanistic culture for lack of a better term. Liberal also works. It denotes a culture with values, mores, and social customs. Ancestry matters little. What is more important are the cultural norms you have adopted. If you possessed traditional values you'd be on the other side of this argument.
The beach volleyball players in London weren't at the beach. They were at Horseheads Parade or whatever that stadium is called.
Fine, a beach setting. Maybe you should suggest to the IOC a more appropriately modest outfit for running back and forth across 400 ft² of sand during the summer for an indeterminate amount of time. I'm sure your expertise would be strongly considered.
Fine, a beach setting. Maybe you should suggest to the IOC a more appropriately modest outfit for running back and forth across 400 ft² of sand during the summer for an indeterminate amount of time. I'm sure your expertise would be strongly considered.
I may do so - but my ire is not with the IOC - but more with NBC for giving beach volleyball such extensive coverage. Notice they didn't do that for the shooting events. Wouldn't want to promote guns, now would we? But showing scantily clad women hitting a ball over a net? Primetime, baby!
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