Tuesday, June 01, 2010

Another One

"Dame" Joan Bakewell does a John Humphrys :

Writing in Radio Times, the presenter said: 'The liberal mood back in the 60s was that sex was pleasurable and wholesome and shouldn't be seen as dirty and wicked. The Pill allowed women to make choices for themselves. Of course, that meant the risk of making the wrong choice. But we all hoped girls would grow to handle the new freedoms wisely.

Then everything came to be about money: so now sex is about money, too. Why else sexualise the clothes of little girls, run TV channels of naked wives, have sex magazines edging out the serious stuff on newsagents' shelves? It's money that's corrupted us and women are being used and are even collaborating.

I never thought I would hear myself say as much, but "I'm with Mrs Whitehouse on this one".'
Another innocent abroad. "Everything has been about money" - or in earlier centuries, power, forever - but that tendency used to be heavily moderated/controlled by Christianity - which was why we didn't send the mill-girls up the chimneys on a Sunday. What did she think would happen when that went ? The Age of Aquarius ?

Joan Bakewell is a Dame of the British Empire that she so heartily detested while it existed. Mrs Whitehouse never picked up any gongs or public appointments for her work, while even the grubbiest leftie careerist gets an OBE. I guess we get what we deserve.

As I said of Humphrys :

If you have no religious perspective and sex is a pleasant leisure activity, why should you not explore its dimensions, watching, participating, selling, buying ? After all, these dimensions have been around for a very long time. Mrs Whitehouse would have been well aware of these issues. As time passes the Humphrys view (1960s version) looks more and more out of touch with reality, and the Whitehouse version more and more realistic and worldly.

6 comments:

Foxy Brown said...

The spirit of Mary Whitehouse lives on...in quarters of Bolton, Bradford and Bethnal Green.

Foxy Brown said...

Just spotted this in my morning browse of the newspapers, the still can't admit the Sixties and its oounter-culture caused immense harm syndrome. Dame Bakewell is still spouting the standard shibboleths of the progressive Left, such as there being more sexual miseducation in schools to make girls feel more empowered.

Anonymous said...

"Mrs Whitehouse never picked up any gongs or public appointments for her work"

sorry to spoil the party, Laban babes, but La Whitehouse was awarded the CBE

Stan said...

" .... but that tendency used to be heavily moderated/controlled by Christianity ...... What did she think would happen when that went ? The Age of Aquarius ?"

Very well put. It's a constant argument of mine that humanity, without a formal codified moral and ethical baseline, will descend into immorality and unethical behaviour.

Those who tore Christianity down as the formal moral baseline of this country did so without giving a single thought to what would replace it - and with nothing to guide our behaviour it is no surprise that it descended into a moral cesspit.

Since then they have tried to shore up morality through various instruments of legislation and "human rights" documents - but these are drawn up by petty bureaucrats over a couple of years - they are not the collective experience of generations of people spanning centuries.

Furthermore, without God who is going to judge whether what we have done is moral or not - or even legal? The state? How?

As I keep saying, in the absence of an omnipresent God, the only alternative is an omnipresent state - and I know which one I prefer.

Anonymous said...

"Very well put. It's a constant argument of mine that humanity, without a formal codified moral and ethical baseline, will descend into immorality and unethical behaviour."

What about Kenneth Pinyan, aka "Mr Hands"? What he did hurt nobody but himself. Surely it would immoral of us to deny him his sexual preference?

Mr Grumpy said...

Surely a little unfair to describe Sue Slipman as a 'leftie careerist'. She stopped being a leftie as soon as it stopped looking good on her CV.