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The Unexamined Brutality of the Male Libido (NY Slimes)
New York Slimes ^ | November 25, 2017 | STEPHEN MARCHE

Posted on 11/26/2017 5:42:39 PM PST by EdnaMode

After weeks of continuously unfolding abuse scandals, men have become, quite literally, unbelievable. What any given man might say about gender politics and how he treats women are separate and unrelated phenomena. Liberal or conservative, feminist or chauvinist, woke or benighted, young or old, found on Fox News or in The New Republic, a man’s stated opinions have next to no relationship to behavior.

Through sheer bulk, the string of revelations about men from Bill Cosby to Roger Ailes to Harvey Weinstein to Louis C.K. to Al Franken and, this week, to Charlie Rose and John Lasseter, have forced men to confront what they hate to think about most: the nature of men in general. This time the accusations aren’t against some freak geography teacher, some frat running amok in a Southern college town. They’re against men of all different varieties, in different industries, with different sensibilities, bound together, solely, by the grotesquerie of their sexuality.

Men arrive at this moment of reckoning woefully unprepared. Most are shocked by the reality of women’s lived experience. Almost all are uninterested or unwilling to grapple with the problem at the heart of all this: the often ugly and dangerous nature of the male libido.

For most of history, we’ve taken for granted the implicit brutality of male sexuality. In 1976, the radical feminist and pornography opponent Andrea Dworkin said that the only sex between a man and a woman that could be undertaken without violence was sex with a flaccid penis: “I think that men will have to give up their precious erections,” she wrote. In the third century A.D., it is widely believed, the great Catholic theologian Origen, working on roughly the same principle, castrated himself.

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KEYWORDS: antimalebias; antimanbias; feminism; genderwars; homoactivism; malelibido; men; newyorkslimes; newyorktimes; nyslimes; nytimes
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To: RightGeek

We are still waiting for some guy or gal to come out and say they had sex with Hilliarily, either forced or consensual sex.


61 posted on 11/27/2017 7:25:35 AM PST by Grampa Dave (The fastest way to drain the swamp is to simply expose it! Sunlight does aid in evaporation!)
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To: Grampa Dave

Proof that they put politics first, and they are hypocrites.


62 posted on 11/27/2017 7:28:27 AM PST by EdnaMode
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To: freedumb2003

Pretty astute

Or they hate men for some reason which may be valid or not


63 posted on 11/27/2017 8:17:56 AM PST by wardaddy (As a southerner I've never trusted the Grand Old Party.....any questions?)
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To: rollo tomasi

That describes most upper middle class educated white men today


64 posted on 11/27/2017 8:21:24 AM PST by wardaddy (As a southerner I've never trusted the Grand Old Party.....any questions?)
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