Given what is happening in the States, we have been focusing on some of the truly inane criteria informing what is considered “racism” today. It is, apparently, “racist” for White people to so much as comment on the beliefs or behavior of others; racist for them to deny that everything they have is the result of sheer “privilege” rather than the inarguable facts of History; indeed racist for them to even attempt to defend the informing values of Western Civilization.
Such propositions are rooted in Raw Emotion rather than Rational Thought. It is Ralston Saul’s dream come true, a world ruled by Feeling [i.e., sensibility] as opposed to Reason; a world awash with what seems like little more than a form of religious fanaticism. While there are millions of free-thinking, independent Women who are both “liberated” and “conservative,” many on the Left view the relationship between the sexes in terms no less delusional than those presently dominating issues of Race. Examples abound.
In a N.Y. Times article of Nov. 25, 2017, Canadian Stephen Marche inveighs against the inherent brutality of the Male libido. Citing Feminist Andrea Dworkin, he suggests that the only sex between a Man and a Woman which is not an act of violence is sex with a flaccid penis! His conviction that we are powerless before our unconscious urges leads him to aver that “a man’s stated opinions have next to no relationship to behavior.” His contempt for the Individual’s capacity as a Self-Conscious Being capable of assessing and controlling his urges is typically Postmodern. His contempt for the biological givens of Male sexuality is typically Post-Feminist. He is, this is to say, typically “progressive.” And in typically “progressive” fashion he takes the recent revelations of the inappropriate behavior of various high-profile men and stereotypes all Men as crypto-rapists. Radical Feminists are on the one hand loathe to admit testosterone’s impact on gender, suggesting, in spite of statistical evidence to the contrary, that Women are as aggressive as Men, while at the same time, as Marche’s article illustrates, demonizing Male aggressiveness as inherently criminal. It is absurd, the sort of contradictory nonsense we find again and again in the Left’s religious quest to prove that what appears to be Diversity within the species is really no such thing, except when it is convenient to conclude otherwise!
For those hundreds of millions of Women who clearly delight in attracting the attention of the opposite sex, there would appear to be no room in Third Wave Feminism, a movement whose compulsion to crassly ignore the biological givens of the Human Dynamic is nowhere more evident than in Marche’s assertion that an erect penis is a deplorable instrument of aggression.