Tuesday, May 31, 2011

The Mind (once again) Reels!

Molly (looking decidedly non-Orthodox!) and Eric Jong
Talk about your screwed up priorities.  Molly Jong-Fast (daughter of Eric Jong - Fear of flying Erica Jong) has written an article about being a prude.  Her parents and grandparents, born of a time of wide-spread puritanism rebelled by become sexual open - her mother writing extensively about it.
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And she has "rebelled" by becoming monogamous.  Aces - so far so good.  I mean, having been in a monogamous relationship with Eddie for 16 years - I am all for it.  But...
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But this paragraph bugs the shit out of me.  Before she goes into detail about what annoys her (that being sexual openness ) she talks about the time she grew up...

I grew up in a world that was just the opposite. I grew up in a culture obsessed with sex. My childhood was punctuated by salacious New York Post headlines. As a girl I remember watching the Anita Hill-Clarence Thomas hearings on CNN. I was sitting in my mom’s bedroom, playing with stickers and asking her what a "pube" was.
The 1980s in New York City were a time of contradictions -- a time of limousines riding by homeless people, a time of the richest and the poorest as neighbors, living side by side, stealing from the other. (emphasis mine) The city was boiling with rage, with fear, with crime, and with sex. Sex was everywhere -- from sex crimes like the Central Park Jogger case to Donald Trump’s divorce from Ivana, to sex clubs like the Vault. Back then pornography was on basic cable (it was on channel J). Sex was everywhere.
Argh...  Out of all that, the open sex bugs you!  Look, if you want to be shallow and rebel against sexual freedom - aces.  But in acknowledging the homeless vs the rich, victums of crimes, you might want to try tackling one of those.  "Sure, there is still squaller, but at lest I dress like an Orthodox ".  Really! I'm not kidding, she goes into length about dressing like an Orthodox.
I have no problem with the article in theory, but  you make an implicant comparison between the problem of sexual expression and homelessness - I think you look shallow and self-serving. You have fixed only yourself, while simultaneousnessly making earlier generations responsible not just for sexual freedom (which you despise) but somehow equating that to income inequality.  Like your open-relationship mom and her too-butch for you lesbian girlfriend create an entire underclass with their wanton evil sex.