Exactly. And it has become the approved public narrative at a time when many of the parents are people who grew up during the time when the message was completely the opposite: free love, destroy the sexual double standard, who needs a piece of paper to approve their love, wheee isn't the pill cool!
The tail end of the baby boom and the early folks in generation X are the parents we're talking about. Those of us from upper-middle-class-white-America families (by and large the liberal secularist set) are freaking the fuck out at what the religious right is doing to our country. We don't want them to brainwash the next generation. We thought we were the generation that broke the cycle of badness and now women could get on with claiming their equality.
As for it being about Everyone Else's Spawn... Well, heck, you can't make a public case about it if it's only about your kids. That you take care of in your home. Unfortunately, the asshole opposition who would like to see women barefoot, pregnant, and uneducated, don't hold back from pushing it into the public, so there we must fight.
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Date: 2008-09-25 01:04 am (UTC)The tail end of the baby boom and the early folks in generation X are the parents we're talking about. Those of us from upper-middle-class-white-America families (by and large the liberal secularist set) are freaking the fuck out at what the religious right is doing to our country. We don't want them to brainwash the next generation. We thought we were the generation that broke the cycle of badness and now women could get on with claiming their equality.
As for it being about Everyone Else's Spawn... Well, heck, you can't make a public case about it if it's only about your kids. That you take care of in your home. Unfortunately, the asshole opposition who would like to see women barefoot, pregnant, and uneducated, don't hold back from pushing it into the public, so there we must fight.
Said, of course, as a childless woman. ;-)