Finally, someone is telling the truth!
I can't believe I am saying this, but for the first time in a long time I think I actually agree with "Time Magazine" on an important social issue of the day. And even more surprising, the writer of this article is a fire-brand woman and she is spot on...go figure? The article I am referring to is titled "Camille Paglia: The Modern Campus Cannot Comprehend Evil."** The dialogue she is initiating with the reader addresses the questionable "claims about the epidemic of sexual assaults on American campuses" that she says are both 'wildly overblown' and 'are obscuring the true danger to young women.'" Her main argument is this, "despite hysterical propaganda about our 'rape culture,' the majority of campus incidents being carelessly described as sexual assault are not felonious rape (involving force or drugs) but oafish hookup melodramas, arising from mixed signals and imprudence on both sides!" Can you believe it, she is not joining the lock-step journalistic cry that places blame on everyone but the woman for sexual assault on college campuses? And to go a step further, she is pointing her finger right at the women for much of the deviant sexual aggression; because she believes they have bought into the mind numbing clap-trap that has been spewing out for years from our smug, arrogant, elitist educational institutions of higher learning. Her goal of this article is to tell naive women to "wake up and quit being so stupid" when it comes to the reality of predatory men. She writes, "Too many young middleclass women, raised far from the urban streets, seem to expect adult life to be an extension of their comfortable, overprotected homes. But the world remains a wilderness. The price of women’s modern freedoms is personal responsibility for vigilance and self-defense." It is refreshing for someone to tell the truth and to stop the blame game. She cites all the popular societal red herrings and then correctly points out the falseness of their claims: "The basic Leftist premise, descending from Marxism, is that all problems in human life stem from an unjust society and that corrections and fine-tunings of that social mechanism will eventually bring utopia. Progressives have unquestioned faith in the perfectibility of mankind." Yes, finally, someone pointing out the idiocy of utopian fallacies like Marxism and progressive thought...I love it! She goes on, "The horrors and atrocities of history have been edited out of primary and secondary education except where they can be blamed on racism, sexism, and imperialism." Oh my, she is even boldly calling out and destroying all the "isms" as nothing more than ideological smokescreens that divide us as a culture... "Liberalism lacks a profound sense of evil — but so does conservatism these days, when evil is facilely projected onto a foreign host of rising political forces united only in their rejection of Western values." She offends everyone who needs to be offended in this article, even conservative idealists don't escape the hot truth of her pen. Take a look at her balanced approach... "The gender ideology dominating academe denies that sex differences are rooted in biology and sees them instead as malleable fictions that can be revised at will." She is so right! You have to be a fool to be gullible enough to believe gender is decided by personal taste & choice and not by our chromosomes! We have become so smart we are stupid...and the the "Pièce de résistance" of the article is this ... "There is a ritualistic symbolism at work in sex crime that most women do not grasp and therefore cannot arm themselves against. It is well-established that the visual faculties play a bigger role in male sexuality, which accounts for the greater male interest in pornography. " She goes on to say... "Misled by the naive optimism and 'You go, girl!' boosterism of their upbringing, young women do not see the animal eyes glowing at them in the dark. They assume that bared flesh and sexy clothes are just a fashion statement containing no messages that might be misread and twisted by a psychotic. They do not understand the fragility of civilization and the constant nearness of savage nature." Finally, someone correctly acknowledging that men are sexually triggered by sight, (No duh!). Therefore, it may be true that how a woman dresses or doesn't dress may possibly be one of the main stimuli to arouse unwanted male aggression? Maybe our modern elites need to take human anatomy class again? Where I believe she gets it wrong is by labeling this aggression as the product of 'ritualistic symbolism' and 'savage nature.' Sadly, it is much worse and goes much deeper than that; it is the fallen nature of humanity which all men carry. Depravity has effected us all, not just a few psychotics. And if the conditions are right, men will turn into hungry beasts at the snap of a finger. Case in Point: Spring Break (The new male 'rite-of-passage' experience) It is a the perfect "Petri Dish of Depravity" set up for young women to be preyed upon by lust driven men. Think about it: Boatloads of alcohol, bikinis, & all night rave parties on the beach--mix it all up-- and what do you think you are going to get? You would have to be the most ignorant parent in the world not to think your daughter is stepping into an extremely dangerous male shark feeding frenzy? And yet all the intellectual elites still blame patriarchal dominance when a drunken girl finds herself in the bed of some jacked up athlete or loud-mouthed frat boy. You see the problem isn't some secret alliance of men to subjugate all women, it is just evil acting on juiced up male hormones. I am not excusing the sin nor the crime, but we must place some blame on the stupid women who are throwing gasoline on the fire by dressing and acting like sluts. "If it looks like a duck..." The solution, once again, is not more education and government studies. The solution is teaching "moral purity, the fear of God, and advising your daughters to make men wait by acting as a noble ladies of virtue." If guys were allowed to be honest, that is really what the good men want in the first place. They want to date and marry a person they can honor and respect. It is the bad men who don't mind it at all when women dress and act like whores. Just think, when no one is asking men to behave, or isn't demanding a commitment out of them, the unscrupulous idiot has no problem complying when nothing is demanded of them. In truth, when adolescent minded men go to a college party and see drunken, half-naked women walking around, in their minds they are being served the finest smorgasbord imaginable and it is all of the stupid girls making. Thank you "Time" and Camille for writing an article that a man is not allowed to write in our culture. Thank you for telling the truth. And thank you for placing the blame for sin on all of us, including women! _________________________________________________________________________________________________ ** http://time.com/3444749/camille-paglia-the-modern-campus-cannot-comprehend-evil/
4 Comments
Jill
10/1/2014 05:00:25 am
So very true! The sad things is that many times it's not the "slut" that gets rapedm but a little girl walking home from school!
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Christopher Weeks
10/1/2014 05:03:50 am
So sad.
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TJ
10/2/2014 02:05:34 am
The worst part is none of these girls, or boys for that matter, realize the damage they're doing to their souls. A happy life and marriage become ridiculously less likely and incredibly harder to accomplish. The effects of these mindless actions will have exponential effects that will most likely carry over to the next generation.
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Christopher Weeks
10/2/2014 02:07:34 am
So true!
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