Reply #46: sounds to me... [View All]

as if you are taking personal experience and blowing it up to encompass the majority. Im sorry, I dont see the majority not selling out. If the majority hadnt sold out.. would we be where we are right now?

Ungrateful children? Because I question and acknowledge issues. See, that's what I see as the greatest problem with that generation is.. you guys hate to hear that you screwed some things up. Very few can deal with it. The young whippersnappers, all questioning authority... how did you guys bring about all that change you've been waxing poetic about in the 60s? You obviously fell in line and exhaulted where your parents vigilance had gotten you.. segregation, patriarchy... etc.

Constant vigilance? Im sorry, but if what has happened with things like Brittney Spears being an icon and magazines like Cosmo being about unreal body images to the extreme.. not to mention some of the articles being worse then the stuff in Hustler... is constant vigilance, let me live blissfully unaware. Do you see what the majority of parents let their children wear out of the house nowadays? Is dressing your little girl like a teenage slut a good thing? Is it vigilant?

Hell, I know my generation is fundamentally flawed, for reasons both within and beyond it's control. Im not sitting here saying the young have it all figured out, but Im also not sitting here romanticizing about the 60s and how much it accomplished while not acknowledging the unique problems that it also created.

You assume I only carp on things and point the finger at an older generation. No, I do the best I can to protect my rights, just as you did. I just try to acknowledge the problems so I can make sure to protect the right things and attack the wrong ones. Code Pink is one of the two organizations I donate a significant amount of time to.

Where am I drawing lines on who I will and wont work with? I dont even know where you got that from. Obviously, you are only hearing what you wish to hear because to hear what Im truly saying, you would have to admit mistakes were made on all sides.