The death of romance with the marketing of a “Viagra for Women”. Great find by Tea at Trianon:
While drenched in sensuality, our society is nevertheless experiencing the death of romance. Why do so many Americans need pills in order to do what should come naturally?
The op-ed piece says in part:
In the discreet white-collar realm, men and women are interchangeable, doing the same, mind-based work. Physicality is suppressed; voices are lowered and gestures curtailed in sanitized office space. Men must neuter themselves, while ambitious women postpone procreation. Androgyny is bewitching in art, but in real life it can lead to stagnation and boredom, which no pill can cure.
Meanwhile, family life has put middle-class men in a bind; they are simply cogs in a domestic machine commanded by women. Contemporary moms have become virtuoso super-managers of a complex operation focused on the care and transport of children. But it’s not so easy to snap over from Apollonian control to Dionysian delirium.
Nor are husbands offering much stimulation in the male display department: visually, American men remain perpetual boys, as shown by the bulky T-shirts, loose shorts and sneakers they wear from preschool through midlife. The sexes, which used to occupy intriguingly separate worlds, are suffering from over-familiarity, a curse of the mundane. There’s no mystery left.
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I’ve been wanting to read, and comment, on “There’s No Mystery “Left: Sexual Apathy and Androgyny?” for some time, and it did not disappoint, to say the least. Last night, I was watching the late night news, and found out Lady Gaga, whom I loathe to the hilt, was dressed like a man. She is the very type of female I, when I get married, don’t want my wife to be like, don’t want my daughters to be like, and don’t want my sons to be with. We need to make pants on females SOCIALLY wrong, and stop being two-faced about it(though it is immoral for the sexes to dress alike, we only have a problem when men dress like women. Worse, we either deny females are dressing male, or admit it, but don’t have a problem with it. Every so often, things get bad enough to where females ask each other out, thinking they’re asking out a member of the opposite sex).
This Spring, I heard on the news about a Toronto couple who was determined to raise their newborn child(known publicly only as “Storm”) as neither male nor female. I know some may accuse me of going overboard, but this is child abuse, pure and simple. I hope Canadian bishops publicly condemn this. Not only that, I hope females are convinced how wrong it is to wear pants and shorts(even people who are “tolerant” of pants on females have not been happy to hear of those two disgraces to parents doing what they’re doing). On top of that, it will become obvious to all whether “Storm” is male or female.
Anyone who thinks passing for the opposite sex, or at least dressing that way, is liberating for females should listen to this; singer Annie Lennox said she, at the start of her career, liked to dress in an androgynous manner because she felt it gave her a certain “power”. However, she later found it to be a trap she felt she needed to get out of. This proves that masculine dress on females is NOT liberating; far from it.
I brought this up in another post, but it bears repeating. On Monday, I went to an open-mic, and hear a singer who dressed, looked, and had the singing voice of a man. However, it was a woman. I think her speaking voice may have, for lack of a better term, “tipped her off”. While I’ve been increasingly vocal in my attempts to get females to rid their wardrobes of pants(not that I’ve been less than passionate about this), I’ll step up my attempts even more. Not only that, I, who’ve brought this up before, will NOT fall for a woman if she wears pants more than 0% of the time. Colleen, if it’s possible, could you pray that my state, California, rids itself of its 17-year-old “Pants Bill”, which requires our state’s employers to allow females to wear pants to work? Prayers are greatly appreciated, as well as overdue.