Contemporary American Feminism's Simplistic Psychology Is Illustrated By The New Cliche Of The Date-rape Furo

Contemporary American Feminism's Simplistic Psychology Is Illustrated By The New Cliche Of The Date-rape Furo

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Contemporary American feminism's simplistic psychology is illustrated by
the new cliche of the date-rape furor: "`No' always means `no'." Will
we ever graduate from the Girl Scouts? "No" has always been, and always
will be, part of the dangerous alluring courtship ritual of sex and
seduction, observable even in the animal kingdom.
-- Camille Paglia, NY Times, Dec. 14 1990, Op Ed.

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God will always be the spiritual focus of the Boy Scouts of America.
There has always been sex at the movies--only now it's up on the screen too. -- Danny Thoma
What we do is as American as lynch mobs. America has always been a complex place.
-- Jerry Garcia (1942-1995), Musician, the Greatful Dead -- Rolling Stone magazine, (November 30, 1989)....
Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.
-- Harry Emerson Fosdick...
FEMINISM IS FOR THE BIRDS AND ANY REAL WOMEN KNOWS THAT.
WOMEN ARE BORN SUBMISSIVES AND LONG TO BE TREATED AS SUCH....
RAPE -- seduction without salesmanship.
It seems appropriate to me that Mapplethorpe's perverse images should be situated so close to Congre
which perpetuates a number of unnatural acts upon the body politic every day, without benefit of artificial lubrication or foreplay....