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Apparently we can now add The Scarlet Letter to the ever-growing list of crappy things that Conservatives wish with all their hear they could bring back. Along with slavery, war, poverty...
One of the reasons more young women are giving birth out of wedlock and more young men are walking away from their paternal obligations is that there is no longer a stigma attached to this behavior, no reason to feel shame. Many of these young women and young men look around and see their friends engaged in the same irresponsible conduct. Their parents and neighbors have become ineffective at attaching some sense of ridicule to this behavior. There was a time when neighbors and communities would frown on out of wedlock births and when public condemnation was enough of a stimulus for one to be careful.
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Back in the olden-timey days, when Jeb Bush had to walk uphill both ways in the snow to pull his big brothers car out of whatever ditch he drunk drove it into, they had STANDARDS. Real ladies held aspirin between their knees to protect their downstairs holes from dick invasions, and if some bitch got knocked up by some sumbitch, everybody pointed and laughed at the lady for letting a gentleman do sex to her, like Jesus intended. Then the family would disappear the lady so she could go birth her shame-baby away from polite society. The men what impregnated the sluts? There doesnt appear to be a historical pattern of shaming for them, dunno why.
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Of course, Bush wasnt done being weird and gross and bad:
Bush points to Nathaniel Hawthornes 1850 novel The Scarlet Letter, in which the main character is forced to wear a large red A for adulterer on her clothes to punish her for having an extramarital affair that produced a child, as an early model for his worldview. Infamous shotgun weddings and Nathaniel Hawthornes Scarlet Letter are reminders that public condemnation of irresponsible sexual behavior has strong historical roots, Bush wrote.
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Of course, in 2001, Bush had a chance as Floridas governor to put some of these ideas into practice, when he didnt veto a Scarlet Letter bill, which said that pregnant single ladies whose men had not put a ring on it had to consent to having a history of all their various sexy times published in the newspaper, if they wanted to give their babbies up for adoption. To his credit, he also signed the bill to repeal the very bad law, after the courts said it was somehow unconstitutional to require ladies to write up their History Of Fucks and run it in the paper next to the Jumble.
This is all just really good stuff, to learn about Jeb Bush. Its amazing, but he may actually prove to be the dumbest, weirdest Bush of all, which is QUITE a feat.
http://wonkette.com/587878/jeb-bush-lets-get-rid-of-unwed-whores-by-making-fun-of-them-in-public
Warpy
(111,480 posts)especially when they're the scions of a family that has done its level best to destroy my country.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)AwakeAtLast
(14,134 posts)valerief
(53,235 posts)bunnies
(15,859 posts)shenmue
(38,506 posts)3catwoman3
(24,147 posts)...that stands for "Asshole."
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)muriel_volestrangler
(101,424 posts)The Scarlet Letter law required women to run advertisements disclosing their names, ages, height, hair and eye color, race and weight as well as the child's name and birthplace and a description of the possible father.
It also required the women to provide details of the dates and places of sexual encounters that might have produced the child. Women were required to run the advertisements once a week for a month in the community where the child may have been conceived.
The adoption law passed with overwhelming bipartisan majorities, and its major champion was a Democrat, state Sen. Walter "Skip" Campbell. But there's some question about whether many legislators were even aware the Scarlet Letter provision existed."I have to admit I'm horrified that I voted for this," Democratic state Rep. Lois Frankel told the Gainesville Sun a year later.
http://www.vox.com/2015/6/9/8751955/jeb-bush-scarlet-letter-mothers
Initech
(100,155 posts)And I think Republicans like Jeb Bush live in a fantasy world and can't tell fantasy from reality.
Archae
(46,379 posts)Like the one getting hot and heavy in a car with an underage girl?
SheilaT
(23,156 posts)The men can get off scott free.
JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)the linguistic equal to some of the words used in general about men, that man might be banned from DU.
I don't quite understand what the standard is here about the use of the "naughty" words to refer to people of one or the other gender. Could anyone be clear about that so that we can avoid being offensive in this respect? Which words are allowed and which are not? Are the words allowed as long as we let everyone know we are just talking about any Tom, "****" and Harry and not a specific person? What is the rule on this.
erronis
(15,485 posts)"Naughty bits" are a famous way of describing most everything that we don't want to talk about. Monty Python took this to a wonderful extreme.
(Wrote a lot more but realized that it wasn't going to endear me to the police.)
roamer65
(36,748 posts)You are going to get a lot of her channeled through him.
City Lights
(25,171 posts)Dont call me Shirley
(10,998 posts)Ya know, like the bushes.
Diclotican
(5,095 posts)phantom power
He is horrible - just like his brother - who also was a horrible man.. Just as a governor - and as president.... But for some he would be the "perfect" candidate as he have all the values they want to have in a candidate...
Diclotican
Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)And, which ones do the most harm to society?
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