The always prescient Peggy Noonan has an interesting opinion piece today in the Wall Street Jouranl continuing her column from last week reflecting on the new airport culture and the challenges that the new security measures have placed on "Have a nice fight!"
She has noticed that the culture more and more offends the sensibilities of what we typically call "a Lady." Since it's Peggy she certainly doesn't reduce being a Lady to some 1950's practicum of decorum, rather she hits the nail on the head by appealing to human dignity and the in particular the delicate dignity of a Lady.
Whether it's the Vagina Monologues or the "feminine hygiene" television advertisements or the common manhandling of women by airport security, blows are being dealt to feminity and, as Peggy puts it, we're "offending the angels."
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What an arrogant statement! What makes you think that the 1950's decorum was anything BUT the acknowledgement of a woman's dignity? That is exactly what it was. I know. I was there.
Posted by: Marjorie | Mar 02, 2006 at 09:07 PM
Marjorie, the 1950's weren't perfect. They gave birth to the 1960's incase you didn't notice. It was a system that worked because of a legalism that was prevelant. Things were done because "they were supposed to be that way." When the kids born in the late 40's and 50's became teenagers in the 60's it wasn't enough for them, they didn't understand why they should follow a bunch of rules that they hadn't understood. Enter the collapse of traditional culture and society.
Whether you were there or not is irrelevant, did you bother to judge it?
Posted by: Stephen | Mar 02, 2006 at 10:35 PM