Oh, but dontcha know, "we" are "stipulated" as living in an "Eve-flavored age" — according to the self-selected intelligentsia, whose exponent, the novelist John Knowles, put it just exactly that way:
I think it's apparent all through cultural history that when women did in the past get a slightly higher position in society, these are usually the periods of great innovation [this is news to me so far]. With all our faults, this is an extraordinary age for tearing old ideas apart and remodeling the world. [Whatta surprise.] These, to me, are very strongly — how shall I put it? — Eve-flavored periods. They're periods when you suddenly feel the underlying, almost unconscious entrance of women everywhere in society. At the root of it, it seems to me, it's women quarreling with the way men see the world, with the paternalistic, rigid, structured society, machismo society. I think women are paradoxically the more conservative sex and also the more revolutionary sex. [from the Wall Street Journal editorial page, dated Nov. 20, 1981.]Two observations: (1) What a crock; logically/epistemologically speaking, Knowles' case is "all hat and no cattle." And (2) no wonder Islamofascist males are so afraid of "females"....
Idiocy, times two, thank you very much.
But, every once in a blue moon (in a society full of "the castrati", as Rush calls them), along comes an "Iron Lady" like Thatcher and a "John Wayne" like Palin.
I think you'll love Gagdad's take on Palin. I think it's absolutely DELICIOUS!:)bttt:
Thursday, September 04, 2008
John Wayne with Lipstick: The Axe Wielding Natural
"...she's more macho than Biden and more feminine than Obama....If you don't think castration anxiety is real, just watch the reaction of the media elites as they instinctively cross their legs." It happens only every time Palin opens her mouth.