I'm getting around to posting what you may see as a controversial article by the outspoken Camille Paglia. In this age of political correctness that all to often serves as "extra-legal" censor (and sometimes legal!), she says what she wishes...and expresses the (ssshhh!) inexpressible. This time actually giving voice to men who have been cowed by those PC forces. Open your mind and dare to enjoy for example, this:
"This PC gender politics thing—the way gender is being taught in the universities—in a very anti-male way, it's all about neutralization of maleness." The result: Upper-middle-class men who are "intimidated" and "can't say anything. . . . They understand the agenda." In other words: They avoid goring certain sacred cows by "never telling the truth to women" about sex, and by keeping "raunchy" thoughts and sexual fantasies to themselves and their laptops.
Or this:
And men aren't the only ones suffering from the decline of men. Women, particularly elite upper-middle-class women, have become "clones" condemned to "Pilates for the next 30 years," Ms. Paglia says. "Our culture doesn't allow women to know how to be womanly," adding that online pornography is increasingly the only place where men and women in our sexless culture tap into "primal energy" in a way they can't in real life.
Interested? Here's the article:
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303997604579240022857012920
A writer who gets applause from such diverse folks as both Rush Limbaugh and Howard Bloom is rare. Camille Paglia is one such and may piss you off, but will always make you look within with each point she brings up. I admire her solitary courage, if not every opinion she utters.
A writer who gets applause from such diverse folks as both Rush Limbaugh and Howard Bloom is rare. Camille Paglia is one such and may piss you off, but will always make you look within with each point she brings up. I admire her solitary courage, if not every opinion she utters.
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