No Sex Please, We’re Middle Class

[Bob_S]

No Sex Please, We’re Middle Class

In the discreet white-collar realm, men and women are interchangeable, doing the same, mind-based work. Physicality is suppressed; voices are lowered and gestures curtailed in sanitized office space. Men must neuter themselves, while ambitious women postpone procreation. Androgyny is bewitching in art, but in real life it can lead to stagnation and boredom, which no pill can cure.

Meanwhile, family life has put middle-class men in a bind; they are simply cogs in a domestic machine commanded by women. Contemporary moms have become virtuoso super-managers of a complex operation focused on the care and transport of children.

Just a little interesting reading from Camille Paglia, my favorite post-feminist lesbian.

[Zon]

and she continues ...

"Nor are husbands offering much stimulation in the male display department: visually, American men remain perpetual boys, as shown by the bulky T-shirts, loose shorts and sneakers they wear from preschool through midlife. The sexes, which used to occupy intriguingly separate worlds, are suffering from over-familiarity, a curse of the mundane. There’s no mystery left. "

It might hurt, or make your mad; but she is more correct on the above quoted observations than most American Men would like to admit. 

[braziliangirl]

Furthermore, thanks to a bourgeois white culture that values efficient bodies over voluptuous ones, American actresses have desexualized themselves, confusing sterile athleticism with female power. Their current Pilates-honed look is taut and tense — a boy’s thin limbs and narrow hips combined with amplified breasts. Contrast that with Latino and African-American taste, which runs toward the healthy silhouette of the bootylicious Beyoncé.

It is either the boyish look or obesity... Walk on the streets of Rio de Janeiro and you will find dozens of Beyoncés.

Pharmaceutical companies will never find the holy grail of a female Viagra — not in this culture driven and drained by middle-class values. Inhibitions are stubbornly internal. And lust is too fiery to be left to the pharmacist.

Not a problem that a pill can solve. It's all about women wanting to be women again. Where is the pride of being a woman when all they want is to be like a man?

[piglett]

  Where is the pride of being a woman when all they want is to be like a man?

Some most what to prove that they are better than a man & then they start to wonder why no man wants them.


piglett

[throwawaydad]

Somewhat associated...CNN.com had a piece on this but I couldn't locate it.

http://www.china.org.cn/china/2010-05/31/content_20154201.htm

[bcc_1_2]

Paglia is all over the book. As the green day song goes... she's a walking contradiction.

As one example Bob calls her a "lesbian". I don't know any details about her personal life but... she does not support that being gay/lesbian is an inborn trait.

Yet she supported Ralph Nader, Bill Clinton, and Obama. If you study much of her you'll notice that her views don't just contradict what you expect from someone in the USA political spectrum... they contradict each other.

As an example... for someone that is socially conservative (aka religious) I completely understand why they dispute Dean Hamer's study of genetic marker Xq28 (gay gene). Heck they are the same people that say dinosaur fossils where put on earth by god to test our faith. But for someone that describes herself as godless to ignore science to side with social conservatives... is well... it is just weird.

Hell, I'm sure after I told some of you she supported Nader you prompted vomited and tried to log in and delete the nice things you wrote about her.

Paglia comes off as someone who tries so hard to matter... or be an intellectualist or whatever. But at some point you just come off as a hypocrite.