Some of Us Remember when Women were Cherished and Protected

Some of Us Remember
When Women Were
Cherished and Protected

January 2001

Dr. Pollack believes he’s found something “new” when he reveals that males have tender, loving characteristics. But he’s merely advocating a return to the “basics,” which many people in America have never left.

Those of us who were raised in the 1930s remember when women were cherished and protected by men. Feminists had not yet created the conflict that rages between the sexes today.

That can easily be verified by looking at the popular music from that era, which were songs of love.

We watched in disbelief as the feminists in the 1960s convinced women that men were having sex all the time and women were being cheated.

That was not true. My wife was at Wellesley College in the 1950s. Being an attractive young woman, she was invited to men’s colleges on weekends, including the notorious “animal” fraternities at Dartmouth. She would leave the heavily chaperoned Wellesley environment and spend an entire weekend at the boys college where there were no chaperones at all. The boys at a fraternity were in total charge of their house. The girls stayed in tourist homes in the town.

The thought of being frightened or attacked never entered her head. She never imagined anything like “date rape.” Those concepts are all new since women were “liberated” by the feminists in the 1960s.

A Sad Example
Perhaps the saddest example of this was a 17-year-old, innocent girl from India who arrived at what had become the feminist Wellesley College about 1988 and who went back home a year later as a failed student, on drugs and promiscuous in her sexual habits. She had come from a loving and protected home in India where her parents were excited about a wonderful opportunity for their daughter to study in America. My wife volunteered to be her alumnae friend while she was here.

The girl arrived wide-eyed and innocent. As she settled into the atmosphere of Wellesley where the culture was that roommates would find somewhere else to sleep on a weekend if a girl wished to shack up with a boy, my wife soon lost track of her. About Christmas, she surfaced again and we heard rumors that she was living in an MIT fraternity and not attending any classes at Wellesley.

It was clear to anyone that if she were not attending classes, she would soon be flunking out of Wellesley.

When concern was expressed to the deans at Wellesley about this state of affairs, my wife was told that they were powerless to even attempt a talk with the girl. This was the policy even though the college had obviously told the parents that her coming to Wellesley would be a wonderful experience. My wife was patiently informed that the child’s constitutional rights gave her freedom to do whatever she wished. They did not even make an effort to contact her.

So the girl returned to her parents in the spring as a failure but with all of her constitutional rights still intact.

Dr. Pollack Knows No History
Inasmuch as the 1960s were well underway before Dr. Pollack arrived at college, he has no knowledge of what occurred in the world before that time. He truly believes he has broken through into some new secret. What he doesn’t realize is that it is only since the 1960s that we have seen the aberrant behavior of some boys and girls that he describes. But even now, it is only a few of them who behave in this manner. Most of our boys and girls are doing remarkably well in light of the false history and other information that Pollack and others from the 1960s generation are telling them.

More and more of your youth are indicating they are able to see through the murk that is being fed to them in schools by adults in the schools.