Morals Schmorals...
Andrew Sullivan: Dan [Savage] and I agreed that moderate hypocrisy - especially in marriages - is often the best policy. Momogamy [sic] is very hard for men, straight or gay, and if one partner falters occasionally (and I don't mean regularly), sometimes discretion is perfectly acceptable. You could see [Erica] Jong bridle at the thought of such dishonesty. But I think the post-seventies generation - those of us who grew up while our parents were having a sexual revolution - both appreciate the gains for sexual and emotional freedom, while being a little more aware of their potential hazards. An acceptance of mild hypocrisy as essential social and marital glue is not a revolutionary statement. It's a post-revolutionary one. As is, I'd say, my generation as a whole.Whatever happened to not accepting our failures? Lord knows I have plenty of them, but I was always told we should learn from them so we didn't repeat them. Sullivan is embracing dishonesty and unfaithfulness as unavoidable rather than as flaws to be overcome. I just don't get him anymore.
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Chad of Cake or Death? weighs in here.
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