What do you think about the fact that it wasn't until 1965 that the?

Question

U.S. Supreme Court overturned the Comstock laws that banned contraception.

When I look at dates and some historical events, I can't believe how far we have come in just 40 years, whether it involves interracial marriage or women's rights. I also wonder if the less developped countries can make that much progress in 40 years?

Answer 1

contraception is still mostly performed by women.

inter racial dating has been in america fo a long time, but white men only gave that right for themselves. white women are still very discouraged from inter racial dating by white men.

the people in power are still the same.

obama!

Answer 2

YES, everything seemed to speed up after the Industrial Revolution if you look at history. It took SOO long for things to change before that. Seems like the 100 years between 1900 to 2000 was the fastest change in human history. At least in the U.S.

I think it will only speed up with the Internet and all the communication technology we have now.

Answer 3

Check out Connecticut v. Griswold, where a couple got in trouble because they were using contraceptives! It was illegal in Connecticut to buy any susbtance used to prevent conception. The Supreme court decided that using contraception fell under the right of privacy. When you think about it we haven't evolved that much, it wasn't even 40 years go that interracial marriage was legally allowed.

Answer 4

I agree, that is f*cked up!

Answer 5

Yes we have come a long way in 40 years. Feels kinda strange. Third world countries are in a whole different category when concerning progress. There's so many factors that prevents them from making progress that rich First world nations don't have.

Answer 6

i bet they will, very exciting times for our african and eastern brothers and sisters. i will be there as these economies and cultures take off again.

one egyptian etf gained 80% last year. i see muslim girls in little bikinis shareing the beach with women in burkas, the places where our cultures mix peacefully are the best places in the world imo.

Answer 7

IB, I don't know where you got your information. As long as you pay into SS, you are eligible to collect regardless of your martial status.

Answer 8

also here is a little known fact if you get married and both you and your spouse pay into social security guess what only one gets to collect

usually the man? higher earner

but both cannot collect

Answer 9

Japanese admiral Isoroku Yamamoto is quoted as saying after Pearl Habor , "I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve."  Before WWII, the U.S. was not a super power yet.  And we remained essentially rural and parochial in social constructions.  AND, most of those social constructions were victorian in paradigm.  We were truly a sleeping giant as a social consciousness.

Then, Pearl, WWII, the n**i Holocaust and worse of all, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, worse of all in how the social consciousness was UTTERLY fractured by the chilling, nightmarish tumble we all took too fast back then into a scary sci-fi future possibly to be ran by more mad men like the men who had gased millions of innocent women and children and harmless men in Hitler's "vision".  Sociologists say the "Social Consciousness" literally had a nervous breakdown, a cognitive dissonance, a fracturing of reality after all that.

I saw that cognitive dissonance.  And, as a lifelong amateur cultural anthropologist, thanks to my father, I must say it was quite fascinating to be alive and so aware culturally during the 50's and 60's.  It was unbelieveable the changes in the social consciousness that started occuring then in hot fevers of dissonance between pathological fears (The Red Scare, McCarthy Witch Hunt, the Cold War) and a shocking awakening related to mind-boggling advancements in science (Atom bombs, televisions, breaking sound barriers, putting men on the moon). EVERYTHING changed. And FAST.

After the war and then into the Korean War, we like WOKE UP a bit.  We just couldn't let go of that gnawing worry about such a dangerous new world being in the hands of madmen.  People let go of prejudices and began to question the "Man's" so-called "vision".  It was all about ideology then.  People stopped going to church in droves for the first time in history.  The declared themselves as "independents" when they voted, but men STILL expected their wives to vote the way they told them to. And the female o****m was still a "myth".  The Catholic Church was threatening whole segments of humanity on a daily basis with eternal excommunication and c**p over divorce, marital rape and birth control.  Unhappy suburban women turned to pills, "dolls", and the era of the "Valley of the Dolls" started.  Women got educated, got married and then got stoned, stayed home and watched soap operas.

The Civil Rights Movement, school desegregation, The Viet Nam war, the peace movement in the U.S., the BIRTH CONTROL pill AT LAST, no-fault divorce, ending the draft, getting the voting age lowered, domestic violence laws and criminalizing marital rape, the non-discriminating U.S. Small Business Loans Administration, Roe vs. Wade, Title IX,  and on and on and on has unfolded as women and all people continue to wake up.  Before WWII, the U.S was a sleeping giant in social consciousness and was not a super power.  But, since then what has made this nation a world superpower in social consciousness, what gives us the real right to say we are one of the most "developed" nations in the world is the rise in consciousness we have experienced here in the U.S. related to human rights.  

What we were so pathologically afraid of after WWII was fascism, genocide, dictatorships, totalitarianism and other such vicious oppressive visions.  I think all the work we've done as a society and as women to secure legal protections of basic human rights for more and more people during these last fifty years, or so, has been the healthiest, most RATIONAL coping and survival mechanism and shows great resolve, indeed.

Answer 10

It is incredible.  Sometimes it feels like things will never change, and we need to stop and realize how much they already have.

I was reminded of this when Mildred Loving died recently, and it was in the news that, until her court battle in 1965, interracial marriage was illegal in the U.S.

Answer 11

i think it's sad that it took so long. we still have a long way to go. homosexuals are facing the same kind of discrimination that interracial couples faced back then and women are still fighting to maintain control over their bodies. i hope that other countries make improvements and i think they most likely will.