On October 6, from 6:30 - 8:00 p.m. there will be an event to bring awareness to violence against women, men and children.
Women's Programs at UNC Charlotte hosts the 10th annual Take Back the Night.
Please attend this event if at all possible.
Read the Camille Paglia essay, "Rape and Modern Sex War"
Please post your response to the event. Or your response to the essay. Or both.
250 words
Women's Programs at UNC Charlotte hosts the 10th annual Take Back the Night.
Please attend this event if at all possible.
Read the Camille Paglia essay, "Rape and Modern Sex War"
Please post your response to the event. Or your response to the essay. Or both.
250 words
posted by Karon Luddy | 12:41 AM
3 Comments:
Hannah,
I'm thrilled Ms. Paglia's prose had a profound impact on you. This essay also blew me away when I read it this summer. Reading it made me feel foolish for some of my feminist rhetoric over the past thirty years.
But it also empowered me with its truth. We are mammals. We walk through this world with a human body with biological imperatives built into our system. And whether you have ovaries or testes is of utmost biological significance. It is stupid to ignore this powerful fact.
I am an idealist on a molecular level. But Paglia's essay injected some reality into my biochemistry in the same way that Terry's Vietnam epic might have changed your biochemistry when you read it. Terry started out as a starry-eyed youth with visions of freedom, liberty and justice for all, but found himself toting an M16 in an actual and metaphorical jungle on the other side of the planet. Like sex, war has far reaching consequences. We cannot ignore it and hope it goes away on its own.
Females and males need to educate themselves about the power of human sexuality, so that they can forge a happy, safe path as they navigate through the Gorgeous Steamy Jungle of Sex.
Stephen,
I just read your response regardng the rape and one of your comments stunned me:
"The other is that rape is not that bad because by far giving someone an orgasm is not the worst crime in the world."
Did you mean to write it that way? Orgasm and rape don't belong in the same sentence in an intelligent conversation. What's up? It's a terribly ignorant statement or the tackiest of black humor.
Ms. Luddy
Patrick,
It's black comedy, as in dark comedy, rather than light comedy.
But of course, you know that, don't you, you sweet fellow?
Ms. Luddy
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