Camille Paglia aims a broadside at the feminist culture in a thoroughly enjoyable piece,
It's a Man's World, and It Will Always Be!
A peevish, grudging rancor against men has been one of the most
unpalatable and unjust features of second- and third-wave feminism.
Men’s faults, failings and foibles have been seized on and magnified
into gruesome bills of indictment. Ideologue professors at our leading
universities indoctrinate impressionable undergraduates with carelessly
fact-free theories alleging that gender is an arbitrary, oppressive
fiction with no basis in biology. [snip]
When an educated culture routinely denigrates masculinity and manhood, then women will be perpetually stuck with boys,
who have no incentive to mature or to honor their commitments. And
without strong men as models to either embrace or (for dissident
lesbians) to resist, women will never attain a centered and profound
sense of themselves as women.
Paglia argues that ...
- "[M]any ambitious professional women" in other nations "seem to have found a formula for asserting power and authority in
the workplace while still projecting sexual allure and even glamour.
This is the true feminine mystique, which cannot be taught but flows
from an instinctive recognition of sexual differences."
- "[M]en are absolutely indispensable right now, invisible as it is to most
feminists, who seem blind to the infrastructure that makes their own
work lives possible. It is overwhelmingly men who do the dirty,
dangerous work of building roads, pouring concrete, laying bricks,
tarring roofs, hanging electric wires, excavating natural gas and sewage
lines, cutting and clearing trees, and bulldozing the landscape for
housing developments. It is men who heft and weld the giant steel beams
that frame our office buildings, and it is men who do the hair-raising
work of insetting and sealing the finely tempered plate-glass windows of
skyscrapers 50 stories tall."
- The modern economy's "is a male epic, in which women have found a productive role — but women
were not its author. Surely, modern women are strong enough now to give
credit where credit is due!"
Read and enjoy
her full article at Time magazine.
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