Without a sound respect of marriage in our youth, all we will have is mysogynistic thuggery .

Via Feminine Genius

For once, I share the outrage of Maureen Dowd, who brings to light a horrific case of mysogynistic thuggery in a prestigious a boys' school:

A group of soon-to-be freshmen boys at Landon, an elite private grade school and high school for boys in the wealthy Washington suburb of Montgomery County, Md., was drafting local girls.....

Before they got caught last summer, the boys had planned an “opening day party,” complete with T-shirts, where the mission was to invite the drafted girls and, unbeknownst to them, score points by trying to rack up as many sexual encounters with the young women as possible.

In the larger context, we now have a generation introduced to intimacy as an act devoid of meaning, separated from commitment (either to partner or offspring) and ubiquitous in the mass media (run by adults and funded by this wider community). Those who decry porn are tarred as prudes and those who try to set standards of decency are dismissed as myopic and judgemental.

So the boys imbibe the wider culture, watch how the adults around them act and apply their boy genius to the rules of the "game." Why the shock? Our post-Christian culture is in a process of decay and the structures that were once formed by Revelation are now empty constructs peopled by non-believers. The dignity owed to girls as persons in the image of God has been eliminated and cannot be effectively replaced by book learning on secular models. Anything short of a religious revival will be inadequate to slow the decline.

Yeah, there is religious opinion here, but I hope no matter theist or atheist you see what is going on. We're teaching our children not to respect sex in the proper context of a healthy relationship with all of emotional and physical consequences. I've guess as long as a woman doesn't physically give birth to a breathing child and get good grades for college, nothing else matters in her well being.

I guess I should praise though Planned Parenthood, because these girls are safe with STD testing/vaccines, condoms, birth control, emergency contraception, and abortion. Because that is what really matters keeping them in business, not the well being of women. Otherwise... I'm not surprised by the actions of the young men ready to gang rape. Duh, it's common place for a young man to think of one thing, which is hooking up as a game.

I'm more surprised people were clueless this happen.