[Magdalen] Gap year (or more)

Jay Weigel jay.weigel at gmail.com
Sat May 30 16:20:14 UTC 2015


​Lynn R. said: People often fear that which they can not control.

Obviously a lot of politicians of a certain stripe are extremely fearful of
women.

On Sat, May 30, 2015 at 12:08 PM, Lynn Ronkainen <houstonklr at gmail.com>
wrote:

> People often fear that which they can not control. By taking control the
> powers that be seemed to banish fear. No birth control or pregnant HS girls
> was a combo of banishment and punishment IMO. "Lesson teaching" - and look
> where that path has led.
> Lynn
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On May 30, 2015, at 5:49 AM, ME Michaud <michaudme at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> One of my bosses, a woman born during the depression, told me
> she had to go to Connecticut to get her first diaphragm, They
> were not legally available to unmarried women in Massachusetts.
> Connecticut had no such law.
>
> I am still shaking my head over a society that threw pregnant
> women out of high school.
> -M
>
> > On Saturday, May 30, 2015, Allan Carr <allanc25 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > When I first attended the Johns Hopkins University in 1948 as an
> > undergraduate, a certain hill near the stadium was known as rubber hill.
> > Wikipedia tells me condoms have been in use for 400 years. By the time I
> > got married in the mid 1950s, my wife continued into graduate school and
> > had a diaphragm which, in its more modern form, was invented in the
> 1880s,
> > popularized in Europe and reintroduced to the USA by Margaret Sanger
> after
> > WW1.
> >
> >
>


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