Posted on 02/19/2014 10:31:47 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Our society is neutering boys of their maleness at a young age, while the lack of people with military experience in important positions is a recipe for disaster, claims Camille Paglia, the controversial lesbian author and social critic.
Self-described dissident feminist Paglia, 66, believes that attempts to deny the biological distinctions between men and women is to blame for the much that is wrong with modern society.
'What you're seeing is how a civilization commits suicide she told the Wall Street Journal.
Paglia, a professor at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, is well known for her critical views on many aspects of modern culture, including feminism and liberalism.
She recently spoke out in support of Duck Dynasty star Phil Robertson, supporting his right to express homophobic views.
In a democratic country, people have the right to be homophobic as well as they have the right to support homosexuality as I one hundred percent do.
'If people are basing their views against gays on the Bible, again, they have a right of religious freedom there.' she told Laura Ingrahams radio show last week.
Paglia, who is promoting her latest book, Glittering Images: A Journey Through Art From Egypt To Star Wars, told the WSJ that the diminished status of military service in people in important positions is a big mistake.....
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Something I have noticed and it is completely anecdotal, but there don’t seem to be as many young white guys in construction/heavy machinery jobs now. I see older men and Hispanics. And a lot of men no longer even know how to change the oil on their cars. Of course, cars are so computerized now but still, just the basics that all men used to be able to do.
I have lamented the emasculation of men for years. Used to be a Feminist. Woke up. Now I fight everything they want, at every turn. They are integral in the destruction of our once great country.
I mention that occasionally. The responses usually have to do with superpowers wielded by "feminists," causing everything bad on earth.
I wish I was a feminist. Then maybe I could make my teenagers get out of bed and get some work done.
I’d throw my coat across a puddle to help Miss Paglia cross the street. It’s a pity that no gentleman ever won her heart and hand and that they didn’t raise many children. May God bless her.
How do you think the wussy word Man Cave entered the vernacular?
When I grew up, it was simply known as the den.
So the step up from den to cave is one from the beasts to primitive man!
vernacular
SIngle motherhood and public schools; that’s a lot of pressure against instinct.
Originalbuckeye, I tried to respond to your post but I kept getting kicked back to the top of the thread. Sorry, 2ndDV.
I have a friend who is a lifelong conservative and an evangelical Christian, married with 3 kids. Recently she went on a rant against sexism and men who treat women "like possessions". Said she has a problem with the Bible's language concerning women, and that she has decided she is a "conservative feminist."
I don't know where any of that stuff came from. But it started to get personal when she said that it's fine for me to think my husband is head of the house, but she and her husband love & respect each other too much for that.
We're still sort of tiptoeing around each other, like cats about to fight.
No doubt! You could probably levitate them out of bed and they’d go about the house robotically cleaning and doing chores with this unknowing zombie look on their faces! Oh, to be a feminist!
The author, who along with her ex-partner Alison Maddex, is raising an 11-year-old son Lucian, believes that the way many schools have cut recess is making a toxic environment for boys.Primary education does everything in its power to turn boys into neuters, she said.
The decline of America's industrial base is another factor that the author believes is leaving many men with no models of manhood.'
One way to help a boy grow up manly, lady, is to have a father in the house!
Paglia is dead on with her assertions, but what she highlights is but one more manifestation of the baleful effects of Cultural Marxism upon nearly EVERY institution of our society and culture.
Thank you.
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