Re: 911 5th Anniversary Link

Kendall K. Down wrote:

Quasin <quasin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Visiting an out of town friend last week I attended her women's Bible study group. Adding together specific prayer requests and other comments made that evening plus what I already knew about 2 of the 8 women there (6 of whom were strangers to me) -

Gosh, Quasin! Either you have an extremely problematic circle of friends and
acquaintances or, if the group is really typical as you assert, America is a
totally dysfunctional society.


You've only just now noticed that USA is a dysfunctional society? :)

Estimates commonly stated (I don't know how reliably) are that 25% of USA women are raped at some point in their lives. (A lot of it is date rape, but there's also parental/relative rape.)

Sexual harassment on the job used to be common until the women's movement got it outlawed. In the old days, a woman was chided for complaining; "boys will be boys", "it's all in fun", etc. (Still happens; one friend recently quit a job the day after she started because of the boss's sexually aggressive behavior.)

Many of my current friends are blue collar workers who dropped out of school before university; for them, teen misbehavior such as drug abuse gets jail time instead of the treatment in a private clinic that the business/professional economic class can afford.

"Blue collar" might be the wrong word; that suggests skilled trades. What's the word for adults who are supporting their families by working as store clerks or delivering pizza or cutting grass or baby-sitting?

The problem with living on the edge economically is that there's no cushion to absorb a blow with a shrug. So when a kid accidentally breaks a neighbor's window by throwing stones to attract the girlfriend, where richer folks scold the kids and call the glass company, poor folks often call the cops and demand legally enforced repayment and the kid lands in jail because he doesn't have the money.

Took me a while to stop being surprised when parents mention a child in jail. But not everyone lives a protected upper middle class life style.
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