Sylvia

Part four of Sylvia's date with Emile.

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There was more small talk, more laughing, sidelong glances, more of the unspoken physical friction that makes each new conquest so delightful. In the air was the strong smell of masculinity which creates the ideal medium for me to exist in.

[...]

On the dance floor he held me close to him, the hard line of his penis taut against my stomach, my breasts aching firm against his chest. And it was like warm wine flooding through me, a sleepy, electric drowsiness. He nuzzled his face in my hair; kissed my cheek. "Don't look at me," he said. "I've just come out of a swimming pool, hot and wet." (God, I knew it would be like this.) He was looking at me intently, searchingly, and our eyes met. I went under twice; I was drowning; and he flicked his gaze away.

-- Sylvia Plath Journals, 1950

Sylvia

Part four of Sylvia's date with Emile.

_ _ _

There was more small talk, more laughing, sidelong glances, more of the unspoken physical friction that makes each new conquest so delightful. In the air was the strong smell of masculinity which creates the ideal medium for me to exist in.

[...]

On the dance floor he held me close to him, the hard line of his penis taut against my stomach, my breasts aching firm against his chest. And it was like warm wine flooding through me, a sleepy, electric drowsiness. He nuzzled his face in my hair; kissed my cheek. "Don't look at me," he said. "I've just come out of a swimming pool, hot and wet." (God, I knew it would be like this.) He was looking at me intently, searchingly, and our eyes met. I went under twice; I was drowning; and he flicked his gaze away.

-- Sylvia Plath Journals, 1950

Charles Murray and the SuperZIPs

We recently covered a Niall Ferguson piece on liberal and conservative perspectives on the inequality question in America, in which Ferguson gave the place of honor to Charles Murray's work on the subject. I have now come across Murray speaking for himself.

Although I cannot agree with the right-wing libertarian's ideals and policy prescriptions, I like his description of the great social divide in this country, using two fictional neighborhoods: Belmont is the upper-middle class neighborhood, and Fishtown is the lower-class one:

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Charles Murray and the SuperZIPs

We recently covered a Niall Ferguson piece on liberal and conservative perspectives on the inequality question in America, in which Ferguson gave the place of honor to Charles Murray's work on the subject. I have now come across Murray speaking for himself.

Although I cannot agree with the right-wing libertarian's ideals and policy prescriptions, I like his description of the great social divide in this country, using two fictional neighborhoods: Belmont is the upper-middle class neighborhood, and Fishtown is the lower-class one:

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Andrea Dworkin

“Getting fucked and being owned are inseparably the same.”

-- Andrea Dworkin, "Intercourse"

It is practically impossible for me to pass over such a provocative quote. After checking out the Amazon reviews of the book, one gets the impression that this is a hypothetical proposition whose truth is only realized in a male supremacist society, as ours might be taken to be. The more well-known proposition from Dworkin is that all penetrative sex is rape. Accordingly, in a healthy society, sex would not be this negative. In a male supremacist society, sex is arguably perverted to reinforce male domination. We will leave aside Monk's own febrile predilections, who, after all, thinks a woman looks good in a collar. ;)

Andrea Dworkin

“Getting fucked and being owned are inseparably the same.”

-- Andrea Dworkin, "Intercourse"

It is practically impossible for me to pass over such a provocative quote. After checking out the Amazon reviews of the book, one gets the impression that this is a hypothetical proposition whose truth is only realized in a male supremacist society, as ours might be taken to be. The more well-known proposition from Dworkin is that all penetrative sex is rape. Accordingly, in a healthy society, sex would not be this negative. In a male supremacist society, sex is arguably perverted to reinforce male domination. We will leave aside Monk's own febrile predilections, who, after all, thinks a woman looks good in a collar. ;)