Inventions of Societal Impact

Three inventions that have had significance societal impact on today's culture are the safety razor, the pill, and pantyhose.

The safety razor because it removed the old razor strop from the bedpost. Prior to the safety razor men shaved with straight-edge razors and honed the edge on a two inch wide two feet long piece of leather that usually hung at a convenient location in the household and was readily available and profusely used for disciplinary purposes.

The pill because it gave women a freedom they had never before experienced and were not socially and culturally prepared to handle thus leading to all too frequent promiscuous behavior that has resulted in the desecration of marriage and rampant births of "fatherless" children raised by single mothers.

Pantyhose give women a false sense of security and with the lack of discipline and the sexual freedom of the pill women all too often allow themselves to be lured into compromising situations that often end in tragic disaster.

It is the mothers and children that brought us to civilization. If it had been left to men we would still be in the dark ages.