Boys will be Boys

The picture above was called a ‘panty raid’. It was popular in the 50’s (and maybe today?) when a group of boys would raid a girl’s dormitory searching for ladies lingerie to retrieve as some sort of trophy. It could be that all these fellas were just cross dressers but it was a fad. Similar to the Mardi Gras bead toss it was a souvenir of a time and place. 

Maybe we have forgotten or are becoming too puritanical to remember when boys and girls get together, stuff happens. They start off playing Twister leaving everyone in a pile of giggling. They start to dance together grinding their bodies. They start driving meaning they can get out of sight of the chaperons. It is nature’s way of finding out there is a difference.

Though the church reminded the girls to keep their knees together and ‘Just Say NO’; the boys were bombarded with graphic novels showing scantily clad damsels in distress, ‘Playboy’ and James Bond that taught us that women were subservient to men.

Losing inhibitions with alcohol became the norm with a cigarette after. From junior high school on girls would not show up the next year and rumors were rampant. 

Maybe we have forgotten the times of toga parties? Maybe we have forgotten the spring break wet-t-shirt contest sponsored by beer companies?

Not saying everyone was a gentleman or a lady, but we were learning about things our parents, schools or church would not talk about. There were transgressions and lessons learned, sometimes with life altering consequences, but that is the way we grow up. 

This was a party from high school that turned into a slumber party due to snow. It was totally innocent but if the parents hadn’t kept the girls upstairs and the boys downstairs? 

Whether this guy applying for the SCOUS after being nominated by the current president is a moral soul or just some sleaze bag is not for me to judge (pardon the pun). I listened intently to his job interview hearing for hours growing numb with the govspeak. He did talk about all the women he’d worked with and he brought his daughters and his wife and even his all girl basketball team he coaches.

If this guy knows the law and is unbiased to making decisions based on the Constitution he may be qualified. If this guy is being judged on his moral values, then “In God We Trust”.

The west façade of the building bears the motto “Equal Justice Under Law,” while the east façade bears the motto “Justice, the Guardian of Liberty.”