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What I am going to tell you is a family secret. In my family nobody knows how old my mother is. I am not exactly sure, but for the past five or six years my mother has told everybody that she is 49 years old. My mother is terrified of aging, so she decided to freeze her age. Many women in our society are frightened of getting older because the media and society have decided that women are less attractive and less productive as they get older.
Today we can see in the media how women are discriminated against as they get older. We see older actresses and models that look exactly the same as when they were twenty years old. My mother thinks that if she reveals her real age she is going to be discriminated against, and people are going to see that she has lost her youth. Many women today get surgeries and take rejuvenation pill to stop the aging process; my mother stopped celebrating her birthday. For many years I thought that my mother was acting irrational, but today I understand her fear.
Our society has decided to devalue women as they get older, and the media and advertisement companies have taken advantage of this fear to enrich their pockets. Society also is destroying elderly women’s self-esteem, because gray hair, sagging tummies and wrinkles are things to be ashamed of.
I have the unfortunate problem of noticing that the new trend is wearing jeans with out a belt. Don't get me wrong I'm not in my later years of life i.e. Seventy and up. I just don't get this new thing that is considered in. Guys have been wearing their pants low for as long as I can remember but now I have noticed that females are starting to do it more. I am not trying to create a double standard but guys wear boxers to cover their actual bare skin, where as females are not. I can't tell you the amount of bare skin I have seen all day every day. What is it that makes a female wear her jeans so low and nothing to cover her crack? Why do I have to see every part of your backside while I'm trying to eat? I have sat back while in a local mall and counted the number of females that don't have on belts but choose to wear low rider jeans. The number would drive you crazy. I know everyone wants to be seen as 'cool' or 'in' but some times you have to go against what is seen as cool and do what you know feels right.
What does it help when a women walks around showing the crack of her butt! I personally find it simple minded that anyone would show their but crack as if every person on the planet wishes to take in that mental photo. This fad is driving me crazy. I think that if you choose yo wear very low cut jeans than at leas have the decency to carry something that you can place behind you to cover your crack when you sit in an open backed chair. I know I feel air on my crack when my jeans are to low or I bend over, so why is it no other female takes a second to correct themselves as I and other women do? Either pull your jeans up or you shirt down!!!
Please ladies try to fix this issue that seem to going on. I wanna know am I the only person who is feeling this way? Am I wrong for not wanting to see the dark place that should stay hidden? Please post a comment and let me know?
I will start by saying that many of today’s social norms were once counter cultural or taboo. Many modern norms started out as hard fights against oppressive, demeaning, prejudices bearing many human casualties right here in our own country. Many of these norms we take for granted today as though their fights had been won long ago but almost none of them have been completely won & as soon as we become complacent that's when all the sacrifice is lost. For example, just last year sitting Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia said that the 14th amendment does not apply to women & that not only women but no minority actually shares equal protection under the law according to our constitution. If anyone thinks oppression of women doesn’t go on today think again. Women’s salaries as compared to mens have dropped considerably over the last several years for the same job as a man with equal education & qualifications. There are many conservative thinkers that feel a woman’s place is in the home. Just 100 years ago women in the United States could not vote, should not consider an education, & it was considered taboo for them to work. On top of that The Equal Rights Amendment has never been ratified so there is no "Equal Protection Under The Law" in the United States. Would a Woman President seem to "Counter" modern culture? There seems to be a whole Counter Culture built around slandering our black president whether he was the best man for the job or not. The fact is that Counter Cultures have many faces in modern society both Good & Evil depending on which side of the fight you're on & what we call common sense "Norms" never stand in the way.
(I'll remind ALL of you again. The Equal Rights Amendment was NEVER ratified.)
Time for some modern Counter Culture activity Suffragettes?
The fight isn't over yet!
The Sex Pistols pissed on their audience in opposition to authority & formalism.
And their Counter Culture crowd just LOVED it!
Sometimes oppressive & violent ideologies become Counter Cultures unto themselves.
(These people call themselves Christians.)
Less people have been murdered in the name of Satan than in the name of God.
Why?
If marriage is between a man & a woman who can a transgender marry?
This Counter Culture says they can marry anyone they damn well please!
Legalize it!
This is what's happening around the world.
Why?
One thing is for certain, a Counter Culture by it's very nature will offend someone's sense of "The Norm". The main ideal I wish to discuss is the Modern Peace Movement which isn't a whole lot different than it was during the Vietnam era. There is a Counter Culture movement today that is once again becoming main stream that believes the United States has been acting as an oppressive & ruthless empire against much of the rest of the world. That our foreign policy & our tyranny is directly responsible for what happened to us on 911 in New York City at the World Trade Centers. They believe that the violence & oppression we impose on other nations will insight further retaliation against our own nation. They believe our deceptive lending & foreclosure policies on poor nations followed by "Regime Change" & “Nation Building” around the globe is completely unconstitutional & has led to widespread hatred for the United States. This modern movement is making a play for the White House.
"The reality is that our military presence on foreign soil is as offensive to the people that live there as armed Chinese troops would be if they were stationed in Texas. We would not stand for it here, but we have had a globe-straddling empire and a very intrusive foreign policy for decades that incites a lot of hatred and resentment toward us." – Ron Paul
Did you know Bechtel & the World Bank financed the Public Water Works in a city in Bolivia & then raised water rates by over 200%? According to their contract they not only owned the water in the system but the water in the streams, lakes, & rivers.. & even the water that fell from the sky? If you couldn't pay your water bill & tried to collect rain water to drink you would have been arrested. We wonder why our capitalistic "NORMS" are being COUNTERED ?!?!? Why our flags are being burned. Why other nations around the world want to destroy the US & our decadent culture?
The Modern Counter Culture
Peace Movement Says,
"Stay out of the personal affairs of other nations.
