* Lysistrata Redux

Yale Daily Column  on Gender Roles

(Click on link above for full  YDN article.)

"This line of thinking places women in a position where they're dependent on men and conveniently doesn't do the same to men."  

NOT AT ALL.

 Men are just as much victims of Biological Determinism as are women. Promiscuity (programmed by the Unconscious) is the price they pay. They are TOTALLY dependent on women, just not ONE monogamously enshrined woman.

Thornton Wilder said it best: "Nature's goal is to cover the planet with as much protoplasm as it can as fast as it can." (This was before the discovery of DNA and the obviation of the concept of protoplasm.)

If that means making males promiscuous cuckhold-makers and women mate-seekers at any cost, even subordination, that is what Nature (the Unconscious) will do.

John Edwards, Elliot Spitzer and Mark Sanford:  little puppets of Biological Determinism, like the males in Aristophanes' Lysistrata, led around the stage of the world by their erect phalluses, willing to become international fools, to gratify the Great Unconscious Regulating the Universe (GURU).

Ah, what fools these mortals be.

• Posted by The Anti-Yale on February 25, 2011 at 8:55 a.m.
PK, I can't imagine why you drop a random quote from a midsummer night's dream. It doesn't add learning or gravitas to your comments, it just makes them seem irrelevant.
• Posted by 11 on February 25, 2011 at 11:36 p.m.

11:
IF YOU DON"T THINK a world is full of FOOLS when men and women, running everything from governments to divinity schools* are LED AROUND ON A LEASH BY THEIR HORMONES then I don't know what a fool is.
*try Italy and Mr. Berlesconi's antics with a 17-year old hooker; try Governor Sanford; try Governor Spitzer; try twice Presidential candidate Gary Hart, M. Div. '61.
**try Harvard, where the dean resigned for watching porn on his office computer
PS I am quite used to sounding irrelevant. Doesn't phase me in the LEAST.
• Posted by The Anti-Yale on February 26, 2011 at 5:23 a.m.