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There's no room for anything manly right now." The only place you can hear what men really feel these days, she claims, is on sports radio. "Masculinity is just becoming something that is imitated from the movies. Politically correct, inadequate education, along with the decline of America's brawny industrial base, leaves many men with "no models of manhood," she says. They understand the agenda." In other words: They avoid goring certain sacred cows by "never telling the truth to women" about sex, and by keeping "raunchy" thoughts and sexual fantasies to themselves and their laptops.
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"This PC gender politics thing-the way gender is being taught in the universities-in a very anti-male way, it's all about neutralization of maleness." The result: Upper-middle-class men who are "intimidated" and "can't say anything. She sees the tacit elevation of "female values"-such as sensitivity, socialization and cooperation-as the main aim of teachers, rather than fostering creative energy and teaching hard geographical and historical facts.īy her lights, things only get worse in higher education. Paglia observes this phenomenon up close with her 11-year-old son, Lucien, whom she is raising with her ex-partner,Īn artist and public-school teacher who lives 2 miles away. The notion was once met with derision, but now data back it up: Almost one in five high-school-age boys has been diagnosed with ADHD, boys get worse grades than girls and are less likely to go to college. Fellow feminist Christina Hoff Sommers has written about the "war against boys" for more than a decade.
She is not the first to make this argument, as Ms. Primary education does everything in its power to turn boys into neuters." "They're making a toxic environment for boys. It's oppressive to anyone with physical energy, especially guys," she says, pointing to the most obvious example: the way many schools have cut recess. "Primary-school education is a crock, basically. Paglia argues that the softening of modern American society begins as early as kindergarten.
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The world is full of potential attacks, potential disasters." She calls it "street-smart feminism." "I believe that every person, male and female, needs to be in a protective mode at all times of alertness to potential danger. Paglia-who dresses in androgynous jackets and slacks-has been told that she believes "women are at fault for their own victimization." Nonsense, she says. When she has made this point in the past, Ms. "So many women don't realize how vulnerable they are by what they're doing on the street," she says, referring to women who wear sexy clothes.
The results, she says, can be seen in everything from the dysfunction in Washington (where politicians "lack practical skills of analysis and construction") to what women wear. They literally don't have any sense of evil or criminality." "These people don't think in military ways, so there's this illusion out there that people are basically nice, people are basically kind, if we're just nice and benevolent to everyone they'll be nice too. That is a recipe for disaster," she says. But there is no prestige attached to it anymore.
"The entire elite class now, in finance, in politics and so on, none of them have military service-hardly anyone, there are a few. She starts by pointing to the diminished status of military service. But no subject gets her going more than when I ask if she really sees a connection between society's attempts to paper over the biological distinction between men and women and the collapse of Western civilization.
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