Quotes about Norms

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.

Males and females are in a state of gender upheaval and confusion.

At the individual level, the great controlling myth of our time has been the belief that within each of us there is a real, inner, private 'self', long buried beneath layers of socialization and attempted cultural and religious control, and needing to be rediscovered if we are to live authentic lives. When we 'discover' this 'true authentic self' , we must do whatever it dictates, even if it means ignoring the norms of the 'unenlightened' society all around us.

The only way to drive out bad culture is with good culture.

You might find contradictory taboos. In one culture it might seem shocking to think x, while in another it was shocking not to. But I think usually the shock is on one side. In one culture x is ok, and in another it's considered shocking. My hypothesis is that the side that's shocked is most likely to be the mistaken one.

difference between sociology and morality. Sociology is descriptive; morality is prescriptive.

Natural laws are not immutable because they are descriptions of what happens, not prescriptions of what must happen.

Chastity may be a fetish invented by certain societies for unknown reasons.

Society may no longer define marriage in the only way marriage has ever been defined in the annals of recorded history. Many societies allowed polygamy, many allowed child marriages, some allowed marriage within families; but none, in thousands of years, defined marriage as the union of people of the same sex.

Only when women rebel against patriarchal standards does female muscle become more accepted.

Modern morality consists in accepting the standard of one's age. I consider that for any man of culture to accept the standard of his age is a form of the grossest immorality.

What a singular fact for an angel visitant to this earth to carry back in his note-book, that men were forbidden to expose their bodies under the severest penalties!