Tag Archives: animality
Sex and Porn
Sex and Porn O boy! A hot topic! I bet I get a hundred million followers! Some years ago, a friend of mine, a well-known feminist writer, discovered that her psychiatrist husband was being unfaithful to her. Worse, his infidelity … Continue reading
Posted in Academe, Action, Alienation, Art, Autonomy, Chivalry, Class, conformism, Contemplation, Contradictions, Cool, Courtship, Cultural Politics, Culture, Desire, dialectic, Erotic Life, Ethics, Evil, exploitation, Faith, Fashion, Femininity, Feminism, Freedom, Friendship, Gender Balance, Guilt and Innocence, Health, History, history of ideas, ID, Identity, Ideology, Idolatry, Immorality, Institutional Power, Literature, Love, Male Power, Masculinity, master, Mind Control, nineteenth-century, Oppression, Philosophy, Political, Political Movements, Power, Psychology, relationships, Roles, Seduction, self-deception, Sex Appeal, Sexuality, slave, Social Conventions, Sociobiology, Spirituality, status, status of women, Suffering, The Examined Life, The Problematic of Men, The Problematic of Woman, the profane, the sacred, Time, twentieth century, twenty-first century, Work, Writing, Zeitgeist
Tagged a life of one's own, Abigail L. Rosenthal's "Getting Past Marx and Freud", addiction, animality, art of being a woman, Arthur Schopenhauer, being with-it, betrayal, book reviews, Charles Darwin, contemporary mores, Darwin’s Origin of the Species, decadence, divorce, enforcing consensus, erotic expectations, Friedrich Nietzsche, German Romanticism, getting hooked, group pressure, historical romance novels, human motivation, human nature, hypnotic therapy, ID, infidelity, inhibitions, Intellectual fashion, libido, Linda Tarazi’s Under the Inquisition: an experience relived, losing inhibitions, medical malpractice, Nancy Jo Sales’ American Girls: Social Media and the Secret Lives of Teenagers, obsession, past life regression, past life therapy, past lives, peer pressure, Peggy Orenstein’s Girls and Sex: Navigating the Complicated New Landscape, pleasure, political correctness, pornography, post modernism, primal aims, prudish, psychiatric malpractice, reductionism, repression, reviewers, romance novels, settled science, sex, Sexuality, sociobiology, soft porn, Spanish Inquisition, species aims, the new normal, The New York Review of Books, the unconscious, theory-driven, traditionalism, trauma, trendiness, uptight, will-to-life, will-to-power, woman’s wisdom, Zoe Heller
Leave a comment
Put-Downs
Put-Downs More than one accomplished male philosopher I know has confessed, in a let-your-hair-down moment, to having lived for years in fear of the moment when the world would discover the Total Fraud he really was and get him Unmasked. … Continue reading
Posted in "Absolute Freedom and Terror", Absurdism, Academe, Action, Alienation, Anthropology, Art of Living, Atheism, Autonomy, Bible, Chivalry, Class, Contemplation, Contradictions, Cool, Courage, Courtship, Culture, Desire, dialectic, Erotic Life, Eternity, Ethics, Evil, Existentialism, Faith, Fashion, Femininity, Feminism, Freedom, Friendship, Gender Balance, Guilt and Innocence, Health, Heroes, hidden God, History, history of ideas, Idealism, Ideality, Identity, Ideology, Idolatry, Immortality, Institutional Power, Law, Legal Responsibility, life and death struggle, Love, Male Power, Martyrdom, Masculinity, master, Memoir, Mind Control, Mortality, non-violence, Oppression, Past and Future, Peace, Philosophy, Political, Political Movements, Power, Propaganda, Psychology, Public Intellectual, Reductionism, relationships, Religion, Roles, Seduction, Sex Appeal, slave, Social Conventions, Sociobiology, Spirituality, Suffering, Terror, The Examined Life, The Problematic of Men, The Problematic of Woman, Theism, Theology, Time, twentieth century, twenty-first century, Utopia, Violence, War, Work, Writing, Zeitgeist
Tagged academic intrigue, academic pecking order, academic perks, academic politics, academic privilege, adversarial proceeding, Africa, angels, anger, animality, Arbitration, Arbitration Award, belittling, Biblical Daniel, Britain, brittleness, brutal forces, brutality, caricature, civilization, civilizations, colleagues, collegiality, conquest, corporation counsel, cross examination, cruelty, Daniel and the Lion's Den, Divine deliverance, doctoral degree, failure, grievance, hearing room, hegemony, Henry Ossawa Tanner, human civilization, human cruelty, human kindness, human suffering, humankind, hysterical females, imperialism, institutional rank, lawyering, major insults, major league, male philosophers, memoir, minor insults, miracles, moral rank, Ms., North and South America, open-heartedness, Oppression, peer review, philosophic frauds, power plays, powerful critics, professional power, providence, put downs, Q&A, seeing the story, self-advertisement, self-deprecation, self-promotion, slavery, Slavic countries, Success, suffering, sworn testimony, testimony under oath, The City University, the lion's mouth, Thomas Sowell's "Conquests and Cultures: An International History", titles, tragic annals, under oath, Union grievance, unmasking frauds, victimization
2 Comments