1950's life for women? Still prevalent today?

[GeorgeParker]

What is porn culture?

I didn't know what that term meant either, so I Googled it. https://www.feministcurrent.com/2016...culture-girls/

The basic definition seems to be:

"a report published this year by the NSPCC shows that, today, young people are just as likely to find pornography by accident as they are to seek it out deliberately. There is a difference between a culture in which someone has to specifically seek porn if they want to view it and a culture in which porn consumption by kids and teenagers is happening accidentally just as much as intentionally. This is a culture in which porn is simply part of growing up, whether we like it or not."

My own definition would have been that porn culture is a condition in which people casually encountering mild porn accidentally on the internet is no longer considered unusual. But apparently the situation has gotten a lot worse than that.

[Teacher Terry]

George, your mom sounds like a great women. So glad her hard work paid off even though it took a long time.

[bae]

It is someone else defining how lucky we are, how happy we are, how sexually receptive we are.

Mulling on this for a moment, this phrase, "sexually receptive", is troublesome.

It seems to encode:

- women as passive participants
- women as objects
- women as service providers
- a very limited definition of sex

[GeorgeParker]

George, your mom sounds like a great women. So glad her hard work paid off even though it took a long time.

She was an equally good mother, which sometimes wasn't easy with me as a son. But that's probably true of all boys.

Mark Twain said "...it used to be a good hotel, but that proves nothing. I used to be a good boy." I used that line in front of her one time and she said "That's not true. You're a very good man, but you were a handfull as a boy!" And here I thought I had always been little mister perfect.

[frugal-one]

I worked in retail for a while in the mid 1980s. My boss at the time would follow me around when the store was not busy and ask me what color my panties were. That dude would have been fired on the spot today.

As a young woman, had a boss tell me not to wear a bra. Went to the gyn and with legs in stirrups the doc patted my bottom and made a remark. Went home crying ... DH wanted to kill him! Later that doc was ousted.. many women came forward.

[iris lilies]

Mulling on this for a moment, this phrase, "sexually receptive", is troublesome.

It seems to encode:

- women as passive participants
- women as objects
- women as service providers
- a very limited definition of sex

I think that is the point of the use of this phrase.

[Tybee]

I think that is the point of the use of this phrase.

yup