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...presumption that "human nature" is a fiction and that man is a complete product of society. This idea, which came from Europe and was promulgated by Rousseau, has ultimately infiltrated the American university and is now taken for granted in many intellectual circles. On this view, bad things--like rape and homophobia--have been socialized into good people by a bad society. The solution? More socialization: With the right combination of re-education programs, seminars, and speech codes, every person can be completely made over into a sensitive, attuned and caring individual...
...natural savages. "Hunt, pursuit, and capture are biologically programmed into male sexuality," Paglia writes. "Generation after generation, men must be educated, refined, and ethically persuaded away from their tendency toward anarchy and brutishness. Society is not the enemy, as feminism ignorantly claims. Society is woman's protection against rape." Men's natural biological instincts--not society--tell men to ravish women...
What does prudence say about rape? Paglia says it succinctly: "Sex, like the city streets, would be risk-free only in a totalitarian society." Given certain intractable facts about men and sex, there is an inevitable trade off between safety and freedom. There is no way women will be able to "take back the night" completely. Individual prudence and responsibility will have to take up the slack. Paglia blasts feminists for blinding women to the this simple fact. "A girl who goes upstairs alone with a brother at a fraternity party is an idiot," She writes. "Feminists call this 'blaming...
...high-tech communications--is unrivaled." Viewers of CNN apparently were so engrossed in courtroom testimony that when the channel switched to coverage of President Clinton's visit to Kiev, angry Bobbitt watchers clogged network phone lines, After all, how could international affairs even hope to compete with tales of rape and a severed penis...
...controversial issue of date rape also needs to be addressed during Take Back the Night, but with a panel that includes a variety of different positions. The argument that women are responsible for their own actions is a valid one, but it should not imply that men don't have to be responsible for theirs. Instead of shifting blame squarely on one sex or the other, there must be, in certain cases, a middle ground which rests not on traditional stereotypes of men and women but on the notion of sexual equity...