Saving Culture with Leslie Elliott Boyce: the pain men and women inflict on each other, the difference raising boys and girls, and men and women must share the blame for our current unhappiness.
I always find the podcast well worth watching. As far as sexual morality is concerned, a lot could be gained by returning to biblical values like chastity before marriage and fidelity within marriage.
Loved this conversation. As someone who lived through the feminist movement (I Am Woman Hear Me Roar a la Helen Reddy gives my age away) and went by Ms. during my 45 year professional career despite being married for nigh 50 years, thank god I didn’t completely buy into the propaganda. A little voice inside me was wrestling with the very issues you brought up today. Bravo to you two! ❤️
That was a great conversation. The porn today makes me pine for the good old days of the playboy covered behind the counter. I'm reminded of a short Substack I just read by Iona Italia. She writes "I keep circling around the topic of hedonic depletion and how to combat it—like a vulture around a Tower of Silence, but without ever really getting my beak into the carcass of it. Hedonic depletion is the idea that things grow stale after repeated encounters and that each time you experience a thing the pleasure is fainter than before." Porn (including the soft porn on the tv and big screen) just keeps getting more extreme to counteract the hedonic depletion, just as a drug addict needs to keep upping the dose. We're watching this in real time as the Hollywood circle around Diddy dove for the bottom of hell, then started digging when they reached the bottom. I was very happy when my then 5th grade son came to me and told me his buddies were looking at some very bad stuff on the computer and it was making him uncomfortable. The parents were able to nip it in the bud.
All of the strong women I have known like men and get along well with them. In general, those women seem to be pretty happy. Then there are women I know who act as if they have a grudge against men. These women tend to be bitter and mostly unhappy. There are men, of course, who are the equivalent in their attitude toward women. The mistrust and resentment have been vigorously pushed for decades. I was getting it in classroom lectures from professors as far back as the early 1990s, and it wasn't new then.
When I was a boy in the '60s, my male friends and I delighted in blowing up the old model planes and cars we had got tired of with firecrackers, or devising ways to disintegrate them in horrible crashes. Nobody taught us to be that way; it came naturally. None of the girls we knew participated in this activity. They thought we were nuts.
I always find the podcast well worth watching. As far as sexual morality is concerned, a lot could be gained by returning to biblical values like chastity before marriage and fidelity within marriage.
Absolutely!
Fantastic chat with Leslie! I watch her podcast on most Monday’s.
Loved this conversation. As someone who lived through the feminist movement (I Am Woman Hear Me Roar a la Helen Reddy gives my age away) and went by Ms. during my 45 year professional career despite being married for nigh 50 years, thank god I didn’t completely buy into the propaganda. A little voice inside me was wrestling with the very issues you brought up today. Bravo to you two! ❤️
Thank you! And well done for resisting the propaganda!
Great conversation. A lot to take in. So encouraging to hear intelligent and compassionate discourse...a real sense of exploration.
Thank you!
That was a great conversation. The porn today makes me pine for the good old days of the playboy covered behind the counter. I'm reminded of a short Substack I just read by Iona Italia. She writes "I keep circling around the topic of hedonic depletion and how to combat it—like a vulture around a Tower of Silence, but without ever really getting my beak into the carcass of it. Hedonic depletion is the idea that things grow stale after repeated encounters and that each time you experience a thing the pleasure is fainter than before." Porn (including the soft porn on the tv and big screen) just keeps getting more extreme to counteract the hedonic depletion, just as a drug addict needs to keep upping the dose. We're watching this in real time as the Hollywood circle around Diddy dove for the bottom of hell, then started digging when they reached the bottom. I was very happy when my then 5th grade son came to me and told me his buddies were looking at some very bad stuff on the computer and it was making him uncomfortable. The parents were able to nip it in the bud.
I shudder to think what kids are routinely exposed to now.
Thanks for another interesting conversation.
All of the strong women I have known like men and get along well with them. In general, those women seem to be pretty happy. Then there are women I know who act as if they have a grudge against men. These women tend to be bitter and mostly unhappy. There are men, of course, who are the equivalent in their attitude toward women. The mistrust and resentment have been vigorously pushed for decades. I was getting it in classroom lectures from professors as far back as the early 1990s, and it wasn't new then.
When I was a boy in the '60s, my male friends and I delighted in blowing up the old model planes and cars we had got tired of with firecrackers, or devising ways to disintegrate them in horrible crashes. Nobody taught us to be that way; it came naturally. None of the girls we knew participated in this activity. They thought we were nuts.