No balls

Gay American expatriate Bruce Bawer, who writes bravely on the dangers of Islam in Europe, takes on Camille Paglia today for wasting her energy on fluff like Lady Gaga, joining the hordes of other public American women who are loudly and grandly ignoring Islam's treatment of females.

At the risk of becoming a Johnny One Note --I hear a voice saying, "Too late!"-- I assume that their ladylike discretion about this issue is not due to an exaggerated reverence for religion, but an exaggerated reverence for darker-skinned people.

I sometimes think that Martin Luther King is at the origins of America's downfall. He made it so uncomfortable to be anything other than worshipful and supportive of blacks, that a huge chunk of white America --which was once mostly all of America-- can now no longer even think unpleasant things about darker-skinned peoples, even if they are manifestly barbarians or savages.

When I was working in the AIDS field back in the 80's and early 90's, there were a lot of lesbians involved. Very PC girls. Always ready to explode into a lecture. But they had a kind of ball-less fecklessness when it came to darker-skinned peoples. Two incidents from those bygone days:

At a workshop on Caribbean black culture, the issue of wife-beating came up. The very black male presenter was non-chalant about it. My blond lesbian colleague did not jump up and down and scream, as she would have if a white man had suggested it was not a good idea to make a new hire of a pregnant woman who would be heading off to maternity leave in three months. (I once said that and screaming followed). I asked her why she did not protest. "It's their culture," was her multiculty pathetic reply.

At a regional gathering of AIDS orgs, it was the turn of the Native Peoples* org to host the event and they wanted to put on an aboriginal healing and blessing ceremony for the hundred or so assembled activists. You could feel the frisson amongst the participants. Then one of the Noble Savages got up to start and announced that of course no menstruating women could join the circle. Not a peep from the fire-breathing, man-eating Sapphics or their straight sisters. After all, when it comes to darkies, "It's their culture" trumps everything. I left the hall and had to go outside because I could not contain my rather raucous Schadenfreude-infected laughter.

I have no idea why Paglia has not taken up the cudgels against Mohammad's sons, but the racial trope seems to me to be the only explanation for why her decibel-loving sibs have mostly shut their mouths so far about a system for which a glass ceiling would be a miraculous improvement.

*This was in Canada, a country far advanced in self-erasure, so they were actually called "First Nations". Amazing how you invade and conquer and then cede psychological and moral priority to the people you beat out. Liberalism: the ideology of Western suicide.