HT to FB friend Leah Kabacker for the link.
For those of you who had the Ms.Fortune to Ms. the slogan behind the image Ms.Fluke is showcasing, it's a sacred text of classical feminism: A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle.
Increasing numbers of men agree....
4 comments:
Re catching fish for bicycle jockeys: »Evidently all reason has gone missing from modern marriage: although that constitutes an objection not to marriage but to modernity. ... Modern marriage has lost its sense [and no new sense is growing for marriage] — accordingly, one is abolishing it« (Twilight of the Idols, Skirmishes of an untimely dude, ¶39). ... So now we must join either the boko harem or the internet blogging mood squad.
P.S. Boko Haram, the West [js935 BWA entrance; cf js3996] Window [js3551 KW] (is) forbidden, accursed etc [js2763 ff. cf 2036].
Speaking of the Romney 'reproductive disaster' and the Sandra Fluke 'reproductive success story,' I see that Heather Havrilesky, author of the memoir "Disaster Preparedness," holds that girlish charmingness should be obliterated and replaced by "more robust concepts of femininity" --
as exemplify'd in the TV show "Girls" plus nostalgia for the MTM show's Mary Richards and Rhoda as "real human beings, complex entites capable of layered reactions to their surroundings" (»Some "Girls" Are Better Than Others« 12 April 2012 NYT magazine).
I've never seen neither "Girls" (nor the sort of 'Girl' TV shows that Ms Havrilesky excoriates), but the description of "Girls" makes me suppose it urges young white women in their 20s to be the proper cultural spouse for young white guys who are either unserious-career alpha male players or unserious-career beta males erotically taken up into porn but willing to get free sex in the real world too.
The ostensible totalness of the desublimation aiôn (no Shadow Self) means that there's no need to fore-get whole selfing down the road via procreation (Genesis 4:1-2, via twin brothers, btw).
Accordingly, Ms Havrilesky, who was very good-looking to judge by online photos, did eventually become involved in parenthood, as the stepmother of a teenage boy, but this relationship seems a theme for writing-interpretation, not generation. ...
Or if young white women might wonder if indeed a good boyfriend-husband might be found even at the nightmarishly horrific cost of some moral conservatism, "Girls" reassures them that any "devoted boyfriend" makes his girlfriend feel "bored by his sensitivity, bored by his affection" to the point of erotic irksomeness or even nauseatingness. This means women of this demographic can feel assured they aren't missing out on anything.
Elsewhere Ms Havrilesky (Duke U grad: "I went to school to meet men and drink too much" -- desublimational street cred: not higher education for higher education, but at least not in order to "get an M.R.S." eh? )
suggests that the world is miserable (misery or crumminess without grandeur: desublimational man), but that one can and should still be "upbeat" (although not in the world, whereat Ms Havrilesky's journalism is focus'd), like Ms Havrilesky, who has a very prestigious career.
Young women, then, should let go into a screw'd up romantic relationship life only when in their adolescence and 20s. Then when maybe they want to become a parent by marrying a guy who already has children, they should realize "it's a lot more complicated. You can't hold on to the same disdain and skepticism you used to."
What should women of this demographic feel and think when they see that some things 'aren't going to happen for them'? I guess these concluding words from the NYT magazine article give an outline:
»Eventually, we learn to explain, calmly, who we are and what we will and won’t accept. That’s how you make it on your own, as Mary Richards often demonstrated, though her voice sometimes trembled and her hands sometimes shook. That’s the reason that scene of Mary throwing her hat in the air still feels exhilarating, 42 years later. No, that girl didn’t break. But she was never all that fragile to begin with.«
... To me, on the other hand, "Three Little Maids from School are We" (giggling with girlish glee, etc) sounds lovely, especially when supplemented by more serious sorts of warm femininity. But Marcuse says that love is unnecessary therefore false, because technology has conquer'd scarcity and everyone should just let it all hang out and realize that longings are bourgeois hypocrisies.
What ever happened to men and women being equals and not having a woman totally dependant on a man 24 hours a day? Oh that's right, feminism happened, women don't know how to entertain themselves for a few hours while the man is bonding with other men and sports. Also, according to new rules, the only reason mothers go to work is to pay bills, there is no personal satisfaction in it.
Feminists want it both ways - all the power in the world and non of it at the same time.
... Ms Fluke is maybe less procreatively alone than the photo purports. At least, the explication of "Girls" includes this statement re the "I am" (just preceding the eventual quasi-Buddhist calm of explanation of "who we are" and "what we will" and the resistance-ing non-Self's "won't accept":
»You can turn the world on with your smile for only so long before it gets a little dull[dual duel]. Or as Hannah [Grace, but cf js2332 Chavvah] tells her parents [Noah and Ham-Shem], trying to remain calm despite the fact that her extended [firmamented] childhood[cheled hood-Hud] is suddenly [lying in south den] in peril[at risk on the persian sc dualist gambling table]:
"I haLve [dualistically divide via breathing in mischief js1942] work[ShRK js8308 (cf 8276) interlace Jer. 2:23 (HH refers frequently to girls' 'twirling'); (Islam opposes not shirk but the revealing of shirk)],
and then I haLve a dinner thing [the halving involving guests unreally present as a hingeing feast],
and then[bkw & usd (be)neath] I am busy [the desublimational Ego sum is a son of contempt, js940 BWZY], trying[she does truthing in veilings and unveilings and reveilings unto ying sc ego, i, yang, Canaan, in her Japhethic personnel] to become who I am.”«
Cf 'who I am' in first line of Nietzsche, Ecce Homo [dixit Pilate. John 19:5 Vulgate]: how one becomes what one is (re Pindar Pythian Ode 2.72 genoi hois essi mathôn, Become [an ego sum for your selfing] by learning such as you estin]). also Gay Science ¶¶270, 335 'Up with Physics [to the floor of the olam cave] [end]).
Post a Comment