Evolving
The NY Times today reports that “Florida has struck down a law forbidding unmarried women from parachuting on Sundays.”
Who knows when the law emerged but if it was in the modern era of TV headline crawls, I’m picturing Roscoe sitting in his Palm Beach condo yelling into the kitchen - hey Flo, there’s another warning on the TV for them parachuting unmarried women till 10 o’clock. Better keep the kids in tonight.
I’m thinking the law was written in an era when unmarried women were socially expected to be virgins and the law reflected the mythology that legislation can protect a civilization from waking up on the beach to near misses from virgins falling from the heavens like pancakes.
When will we evolve and what will it take?
