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- Masculinity is risky and elusive. It is achieved by a revolt from woman, and it is confirmed only by other men. Manhood coerced into sensitivity…
- You have to accept the fact that part of the sizzle of sex comes from the danger of sex. You can be overpowered.
- Straight men who visit prostitutes are valiantly striving to keep sex free from emotion, duty, family--in other words, from society, religion, and procreative Mother Nature.
- Every reading is partial, but that does not absolve us from the quest for meaning, which defines us as a species.
- The male orientation of classical Athens was inseparable from its genius. Athens became great not despite but because of its misogyny.
- What I see is not a world of male oppression and female victimization, but an internation conspiracy by women to keep from men the knowledge…
- Visionary idealism is a male art form. The lesbian aesthete does not exist. But if there were one, she would have learned from the perverse…
- Freud says, Man fears that his strength will be taken from him by woman, dreads becoming infected with her femininity and then proving himself a…
- In the theory of gender I began from zero. There is no masculine power or privilege I did not covet. But slowly, step by step,…
- I support, defend, and admire prostitutes, gay or straight. They do important and necessary work, whether moralists of the Left and Right like it or…
- Rush Limbaugh is a principled conservative, master broadcaster and stinging social critic who has won his mammoth following through his own energy, individualism and wit.…
- Anyone who gets his or her political news primarily from the New York Times (which made the ethically challenged carpetbagger Hillary a senator) is a…
- Minerva save us from the cloying syrup of coercive compassion!
- When it defines man as the enemy, feminism is alienating women from their own bodies.
- Why has the Democratic Party become so arrogantly detached from ordinary Americans? Though they claim to speak for the poor and dispossessed, Democrats have increasingly…
- We live in a period of declining stars. Few celebrities these days (aside from the smoldering Angelina Jolie) seem to have complex psychic lives.
- Working moms commonly testify that they feel guilty when they are away from their children and guilty when they are not at their jobs. Devoted…
- As a scholar who regularly surveys archival material, I think that, a century from now, cultural historians will find David Horowitz's spiritual and political odyssey…
- I certainly derived my skills as a prose writer from my scrutiny of poetry and of the individual word. But schools don't do things like…
- The moment is ripe for an experienced businessman to talk practical, prudent economics to the electorate - which is why Mitt Romney's political fortunes are…
- Charisma is the numinous aura around a narcissistic personality. It flows outward from a simplicity or unity of being and a composure and controlled vitality.…
- For all the feminist jabber about women being victimized by fashion, it is men who most suffer from conventions of dress. Every day, a woman…
- As a registered Democrat, I am praying for a credible presidential candidate to emerge from the younger tier of politicians in their late 40s. A…
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