Posted on 01/20/2019 10:56:35 PM PST by aquila48
Author, art professor, feminist, and cultural commentator Camille Paglia speaks on the current transgender mania, the wisdom of early medical & surgical intervention (calling it "child abuse"), and how the explosion of gender identities is a recurring sign of cultural collapse throughout the history of civilization.
(see 7 min video)
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and yes riveting. Great description. :D
I could barely keep up with so much being hit out of the park!
So sorry aquila48,thankYOU for posting this!
Bkmrk.
Let’s make that a link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-hIVnmUdXM
I knew from your description it would be the Paglia - Jordan Peterson discussion. Highly worthwhile is correct.
Indeed. Well put.
It was a lecture comment by my anthro prof about 1966. Don't even remember the prof's name. But that was a stark statement. IIRC, I did track some statement in the literature to that effect but I don't recall what kind of document/paper/book I tracked down. Sorry.
Thanks.
Ancient Greece practiced pederasty. But they didn’t assign sexual roles so much by gender as modern society does. Rather than boy/girl, sexual identity was pitcher/catcher.
So buggering young boys wasn’t homosexual as the boys were being penetrated, making them ‘catchers.’
I’d be surprised if anthropology hasn’t changed a little in the last fifty years.
I love Paglia. But trying to follow and contemplate her machine gun delivery is akin to trying to get a drink of water out of a fire hydrant.
Ping to #29.
Sorry, Page’s sexual deviance itself has come home to roost in the “transgender” craze; it is but the logical progression.
I have no use for her lecturing us about the peril involved.
A homosexual orientation can be the result of influences - such as sexual abuse - beyond the control of the individual. However, Ms. Paglia has made a deliberate, adult decision to be pro-abortion and pro-socialism. Regardless of her accurate analysis of some societal factors, she has chosen to be on the side of death, disorder, and poverty.
“...and how the explosion of gender identities is a recurring sign of cultural collapse throughout the history of civilization.”
Probably true, but in this case, the explosion of gender identities does not proceed from a natural flowing groundswell of the population, but from Leftist activist groups and institutions, and magnified by the MSM.
Similar to massive immigration. It was foisted upon the population as if the population was for it all along.
Well, they used cultural Marxist techniques, straight from The Frankfurt School clan.
Human Beings can only proceed so far before the luxury of civilization allows then to become too stupid to continue on.
Which is fine, honestly, because there is nothing more useless than a stupid human being.
This issue is a sideshow circus with no clear winners, so I suggest freepers leave off with it, just boring everybody.
self ping
One could understand if you have a man that miraculously transforms into a beautiful women you could understand the personal reasoning behind it, but in all cases its a man dressed up like a women or an ugly man who is now a very ugly women. This proves it to be a mental disease and nothing more. Who is more mental here, them or us for entertaining it and the politicians giving them protected class status making laws to force you to accept it. Bizzaro world, the insane running the insane asylum
Thanks much for the link - and amazingly on one of the few days on which I could actually invest a couple of hours on a video.
Two of my favorite thinkers, and even though I disagree fundamentally with much in Paglia’s core, I truly admire her intellectual honesty and her respect for our cultural and religious foundations - kinda makes me wonder how she got so far out there in terms of her personal life choices (which at least she doesn’t shove in everyone’s face or expect everyone to endorse).
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