abortion

academic marxism

aggression

apollonian

Apollonian and the Dionysian

artist

Athens

beauty

Book of Genesis

capitalism

Catherine MacKinnon

celibacy

charisma

cinema

civilization

cock teasing

construction

date rape

dionysian

education

egotism

Emily Dickinson

erection

Eve Sedgwick

female body

feminism

femme fatale

fetishism

fetus

freedom

genius

hierarchy

Hillary Clinton

Homophobia

homosexuality

idolatry

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Jesus Christ

lesbian

liberalism

Madonna

male aggression

marxism

masculinity

menstruation

Michel Foucault

mind

Mona Lisa

music

Nefertiti

nuclear weapons

patriarchy

political correctness

pornography

pregnancy

pro-choice

pro-life

procreation

prostitution

rape

repression

romanticism

Sappho

serial murder

sexual harassment

social change

society

stereotype

strip club

stripper

terror

transvestism

vampirism

Western science

William Shakespeare

woman

women's studies

nationality

American

sexual orientation

bisexual

occupation / innovator as

art historian

intellectual movement

atheism

journalist

literary critic

professor

religion

innovator in the field of

gender studies

film critic

essayist

race / ethnicity

Italian American

is a fantasy world, and unctuous compassion-sweepstakes, into which real workers or peasants never penetrate.

Academic Marxism is a fantasy world, and unctuous compassion-sweepstakes, into which real workers or peasants never penetrate.

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is, in men, so disgusting in the talentless, but also the source of their greatness as a sex.

Women have been discouraged from genres such as sculpture that require studio training or expensive materials. But in philosophy, mathematics, and poetry, the only materials are pen and paper. Male conspiracy cannot explain all female failures. I am convinced that, even without restrictions, there still would have been no female Pascal, Milton, or Kant. Genius is not checked by social obstacles: it will overcome. Men's egotism, so disgusting in the talentless, is the source of their greatness as a sex. [...] Even now, with all vocations open, I marvel at the rarity of the woman driven by artistic or intellectual obsession, that self-mutilating derangement of social relationship which, in its alternate forms of crime and ideation, is the disgrace and glory of the human species.

is a figure who expresses woman's ancient and eternal control of the sexual realm.

Feminism has tried to dismiss the femme fatale as a misogynist libel, a hoary cliche. But the femme fatale expresses woman's ancient and eternal control of the sexual realm. The specter of the femme fatale stalks all of men's relationships with women.

is a figure whose specter of the femme fatale stalks all of men's relationships with women.

is a benign tumor, a vampire who steals in order to live. The so-called miracle of birth is nature getting her own way.

is, when perfect freedom, intolerable and therefore impossible.

Romanticism, like the Rousseauist Swinging Sixties, misunderstands the Dionysian as the pleasure principle, when it is in fact the gross continuum of pleasure-pain. Worshiping nature and seeking political and sexual freedom, Romanticism ends in imaginative entrammelment of every kind. Perfect freedom is intolerable and therefore impossible.

is, in eras of overpopulation, by no means a violation of natural law, but rather its fulfillment, when history wills it.

Sex is nature’s way—coercive, prankish, and pleasurable--of ensuring survival of the species. But in eras of overpopulation, those pleasures spill into a multitude of directions to slow or halt procreation—which is why I maintain that homosexuality is not a violation of natural law but its fulfillment, when history wills it.

is a brilliant Jewish stand-up comedian, a phenomenal improvisor. His parables are great one-liners.

is, along with male lust, the energizing factors in culture. They are men’s tools of survival in the pagan vastness of female nature.

That nature acts differently upon the sexes is proved by the test case of modern male and female homosexuality, illustrating how the sexes function separately outside social conventions. The results, according to statistics of sexual frequency: male satyriasis and female nesting. The male homosexual has more sex than his heterosexual counterpart; the female homosexual less often than hers, a radical polarization of the sexes along a single continuum of shared sexual nonconformity. Male aggression and lust are the energizing factors in culture. They are men’s tools of survival in the pagan vastness of female nature.

is a flight from the magic of the individual person and the mystique of hierarchy.

Marxism is a flight from the magic of the person and the mystique of hierarchy. It distorts the character of western culture, which is based on the charismatic power of person. Marxism can work only in pre-industrial societies of homogeneous populations. Raise the standard of living, and the rainbow riot of individualism will break out. Personality and art, which Marxism fears and censors, rebound from every effort to oppress them.

is masculine. There is no female Mozart because there is no female Jack the Ripper.

There is no female Mozart because there is no female Jack the Ripper.

is just nature throwing her weight around, for after the bomb, nature will pick up the cards we have spilled, shuffle them, and begin her game again.

There are no accidents, only nature throwing her weight around. Even the bomb merely releases energy that nature has put there. Nuclear war would be just a spark in the grandeur of space. Nor can radiation alter nature: she will absorb it all. After the bomb, nature will pick up the cards we have spilled, shuffle them, and begin her game again.

is sometimes guilty of oversimplification such that it fails to recognize that it's point is to redefine rather than merely to rename the world. That is, the point of non-sexist language is not to change the forms of words for the sake of it but to change the repertoire of meanings a language conveys.

One of the main failings of the oversimplified political correctness approach to these issues is that it has not taken account of the need to change meanings rather than simply words. Its proponents have failed to take on board the subtlety and sophistication of language and communication and have thus relied on the naive assumption that promoting forms of language more consistent with equality and diversity is simply a matter of bann.ing certain words and using certain others in their place. As Cameron (1998b) puts it: The crucial aspect of language is meaning: the point of non-sexist language is not to change the forms of words for the sake of it but to change the repertoire of .meanings a language conveys. It's about redefining rather than merely renaming the world a point which many current guideline writers seem to grasp imperfectly if at all. (p. 161)

is a great poet because she is a lesbian, which gives her erotic access to the Muse.

Sappho is a great poet because she is a lesbian, which gives her erotic access to the Muse. Sappho and the homosexual-tending Emily Dickinson stand alone above women poets, because poetry's mystical energies are ruled by a hierach requiring the sexual subordination of her petitioners. Women have achieved more as novelists than as poets because the social novel operates outside the ancient marriage of myth and eroticism.

is a criminal abstraction, masculine in its deranged egoism and orderliness.  There is no female Mozart because there is no female Jack the Ripper.

Serial or sex murder, like fetishism, is a perversion of male intelligence. It is a criminal abstraction, masculine in its deranged egoism and orderliness. It is the asocial equivalent of philosophy, mathematics and music. There is no female Mozart because there is no female Jack the Ripper.

is, for the male, a return to his origins in the womb. To refuse phallic penetration is to refuse surrender to the female matrix.

Every male copulating with a woman returns to his origins in the womb. Goethe postponed intercourse until he was forty. This must be related to his self-imposed distance from his forceful mother. To refuse phallic penetration is to refuse surrender to the female matrix.

is a comfy, chummy morass of unchallenged groupthink. It is, with rare exception, totally unscholarly. Academic feminists have silenced men and dissenting women.

Women's studies is a comfy, chummy morass of unchallenged groupthink. It is, with rare exception, totally unscholarly. Academic feminists have silenced men and dissenting women.

Women's studies is institutionalized sexism.

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