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One of the most pronounced current trends in American politics is the widening political gap between men and women (and concomitant depolarization of political affiliation across racial lines). Gen-Z men voted for Trump in large numbers, while Gen-Z women are overwhelmingly liberal. (more…)
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The sexual revolution had no unambiguous “Thermidor” moment like the fall of Robespierre to bring its most radical phase to an end, but by the beginning of the new millennium it was clear feminism was no longer carrying all before it as it had just a few years earlier. Its institutional legacy, of course, is with us still, and the work of clearing it away has scarcely begun. (more…)
You can buy F. Roger Devlin’s Sexual Utopia in Power here.
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You can buy F. Roger Devlin’s Sexual Utopia in Power here.
Besides date rape, “sexual harassment” is the major criminological innovation of the modern feminist movement. As noted in a previous essay, when the expression was first introduced in 1978 it referred to sexual extortion, the use of threats or reductions in a woman’s options in order to elicit sexual favors from her. This has always been recognized as wrong, and no new term was needed to describe it. But the term appeared anyway, and the first “sexual harassment” legal case called by that name was adjudged in 1979.
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Ma torniamo alla nostra storia. Qualche giorno dopo, il nostro ragazzo sta conversando con un amico e gli dice: “Sai, mi è successa la cosa più incredibile che ho avuto lo scorso fine settimana”. Sorpresa e sconcerto sono ancora percepibili nella sua voce. (more…)
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Il filosofo britannico CEM Joad (1891-1953) una volta spiegò la decadenza sociale come “un segno della tendenza dell’uomo a fraintendere la propria posizione nell’universo, ad avere una visione del proprio status e delle proprie prospettive più elevata di quanto i fatti giustifichino e a dirigere le proprie società e a pianificare il proprio futuro sulla base di questa interpretazione errata”. Le età decadenti iniziano quando:
L’uomo che ha goduto di un lungo periodo di successo crede che nulla gli sia impossibile. È lui, secondo lui, l’arbitro del suo destino e della sua fortuna; il futuro è suo, da creare. “Gli uomini”, come disse Alberti, il fiorentino rinascimentale, “possono fare tutto se vogliono”.
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The 1980s, the decade of my early manhood, was an era of transition. Seeds planted in the 1970s that would burst forth into hideous flower in the 1990s were quietly germinating. The rumor that there was more sex than before the sexual revolution of the late 1960s persisted—as it does even today among the less well-informed of the older generation—but the initial excitement had clearly died down. (more…)
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Cosmopolitan was not the only magazine whose covers caught my attention as a child. There were also celebrity gossip magazines dishing all the latest on Liz and Dick (Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton). Another celebrity couple I particularly remember from childhood is Gregg Allman and Cher, then recently divorced from Sonny Bono (this will have been in 1975 when I was eleven). (more…)
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The British philosopher C. E. M. Joad (1891-1953) once explained societal decadence as “a sign of man’s tendency to misread his position in the universe, to take a view of his status and prospects more exalted than the facts warrant, and to conduct his societies and to plan his future on the basis of this misreading.” (more…)
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Men are citizens of their age as much as citizens of their country, as Schiller once remarked. Young people, especially small children, have an almost limitless capacity for assuming what they see around them is normal, since they have nothing else to compare it with. I was born in 1963, which means I came of age in the 1970s and early 1980s. (more…)
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This is the fourth and—I hope and believe—final installment of a series which sprang from what I originally intended as a single article. Previous pieces were “A Puzzling Situation”, “A Short Note on Satire”, and “Welcome to My Workshop.” The trouble started when the first piece met with more incomprehension than I had foreseen. (more…)
