Out with stereotypes, feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the west's stunning sexual personae, the vehicles of art's assault against nature. The moment there is imagination, there is myth.


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I love the Web, but the basis of my work is going through the physical books. When you go to the lib...
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I want young women when they're 14 to start thinking about what they want over the course of the...
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The damage done to U.S. prestige by the feckless, buffoonish George W. Bush will take years to repai...
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Primary-school education is a crock, basically. It's oppressive to anyone with physical energy, ...
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My grandfather worked in a shoe factory - he was an Italian immigrant. My father was the first to go...
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I am waiting impatiently for the day when beleaguered, like-minded academics can order James Wolcott...
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Because most of my career in the classroom has been at art schools (beginning at Bennington in the 1...
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If people want to be better writers, they can't just read the blogs! You've got to look at s...
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The male orientation of classical Athens was inseparable from its genius. Athens became great not de...
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There are no accidents, only nature throwing her weight around. Even the bomb merely releases energy...
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We need a new kind of feminism, one that stresses personal responsibility and is open to art and sex...
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If civilization had been left in female hands we would still be living in grass huts.
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Woman is the dominant sex. Men have to do all sorts of stuff to prove that they are worthy of woman'...
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It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman. Never in history have women had...
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A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Pr...
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Education has become a prisoner of contemporaneity. It is the past, not the dizzy present, that is t...
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American universities are organized on the principle of the nuclear rather than the extended family....
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Our major universities are now stuck with an army of pedestrian, toadying careerists, Fifties types ...
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The greatest honor that can be paid to the work of art, on its pedestal of ritual display, is to des...
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In the theory of gender I began from zero. There is no masculine power or privilege I did not covet....
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Today, the ideal male is the gay man and the ideal female is the worker female, the woman who can wo...
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A woman simply is, but a man must become. Masculinity is risky and elusive. It is achieved by a revo...
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Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, ...
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Out with stereotypes, feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the west's stunning sexual personae, t...
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When anything goes, it's women who lose.
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Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her a...
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Elizabeth Taylor is pre-feminist woman. This is the source of her continuing greatness and relevance...
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Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion....
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Cats are autocrats of naked self-interest. They are both amoral and immoral, consciously breaking ru...
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Capitalism is an art form, an Apollonian fabrication to rival nature. It is hypocritical for feminis...
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Pregnancy demonstrates the deterministic character of woman's sexuality. Every pregnant woman has bo...
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Jesus was a brilliant Jewish stand-up comedian, a phenomenal improviser. His parables are great one-...
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If you live in rock and roll, as I do, you see the reality of sex, of male lust and women being arou...
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All objects, all phases of culture are alive. They have voices. They speak of their history and inte...
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Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mat...
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The trauma of the Sixties persuaded me that my generation's egalitarianism was a sentimental error. ...
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Cinema is the culmination of the obsessive, mechanistic male drive in western culture. The movie pro...
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Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion!
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Pursuit and seduction are the essence of sexuality. It's part of the sizzle.
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Pornography is human imagination in tense theatrical action; its violations are a protest against th...
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Despite crime's omnipresence, things work in society, because biology compels it. Order eventually r...
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The visual is sorely undervalued in modern scholarship. Art history has attained only a fraction of ...
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Prostitution is not just a service industry, mopping up the overflow of male demand, which always ex...
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