Sins of the mothers

Published: July 26, 2007, 4:45 pm

Chuck Colson talks in today's BreakPoint commentary about Wendy Shalit's excellent Girls Gone Mild: Young Women Reclaim Self-Respect and Find It's Not Bad to Be Good. As the title suggests, the book examines the way many members of the younger generations have found that the sexual libertinism preached by their elders leaves only emptiness in his wake, and are choosing something better for themselves. For instance: I knew that my arguments [in my first book] . . . might be challenged, Shalit recalls now, but nothing prepared me for the tongue-lashings I would receive from my elders. . . . [Feminist writer] Katha Pollitt called me a twit.' . . . The Nation solemnly foretold that I would certainly be embarrassed' and regret my stance in a few years.' Well, it's now been a few years, and Wendy regrets nothing. . . . Shalit is still convinced that true strength and happiness come not from deadening one's emotions and having sex for fun, but from practicing

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