{"id":61,"date":"2014-10-01T12:08:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-01T16:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yusipka.com\/?p=61"},"modified":"2017-06-15T13:27:14","modified_gmt":"2017-06-15T17:27:14","slug":"return-beast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/yusipka.com\/?p=61","title":{"rendered":"Return, beast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Start here. Camille Paglia in <em>Time<\/em>: <a title=\"Camilla Paglia Time column\" href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/3444749\/camille-paglia-the-modern-campus-cannot-comprehend-evil\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Modern Campus Cannot Comprehend Evil<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Colleges should stick to academics and stop their infantilizing supervision of students\u2019 dating lives, an authoritarian intrusion that borders on violation of civil liberties.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Strange, I thought for sure she would mention California.<\/p>\n<p><em>Seattle PI<\/em>: <a title=\"Seattle PI: California adopts 'yes means yes'\" href=\"http:\/\/www.seattlepi.com\/news\/us\/article\/California-adopts-yes-means-yes-sex-assault-rule-5787005.php\" target=\"_blank\">California adopts &#8216;yes means yes&#8217; sex-assault rule<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;De Leon has said the legislation will begin a paradigm shift in how college campuses in California prevent and investigate sexual assaults.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Chateau Heartiste&#8217;s <a title=\"Chateau Heartiste: California law boosts secret sex video\" href=\"http:\/\/heartiste.wordpress.com\/2014\/09\/30\/california-law-boosts-secret-sex-video-revolution\/\" target=\"_blank\">take-away<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If it wasn\u2019t a travesty, it would be a farce. Worse, it\u2019s humiliation. The point of these toxic, insane, dehumanizing feminist and equalist laws is humiliation of straight (white, beta) men. That\u2019s it. Never forget it. This is your enemy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>CH is merely predicting an increase in secret sex filming as a way for men to protect themselves. But perhaps this could be contributing to something much worse. Let us return to <a title=\"Kunstler: We'll become ISIS\" href=\"http:\/\/kunstler.com\/clusterfuck-nation\/well-become-isis\/\" target=\"_blank\">a remark<\/a> by James Kunstler (noted in <a title=\"Bang? No whimper?\" href=\"http:\/\/yusipka.com\/?p=49\" target=\"_blank\">a post<\/a> below):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The most dangerous thing that any society can do is invalidate young men.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Kunstler thinks that invalidating young men will lead to social disintegration and great violence. And that brings us back to the last sentence of the Paglia column in <em>Time<\/em>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;They do not understand the fragility of civilization and the constant nearness of savage nature.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a thought, and it&#8217;s certainly not an original one: what if they do understand it&#8230; and this is what they want?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Start here. Camille Paglia in Time: The Modern Campus Cannot Comprehend Evil &#8220;Colleges should stick to academics and stop their infantilizing supervision of students\u2019 dating lives, an authoritarian intrusion that borders on violation of civil liberties.&#8221; Strange, I thought for sure she would mention California. Seattle PI: California adopts &#8216;yes means yes&#8217; sex-assault rule &#8220;De&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7Q4T3-Z","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":299,"url":"http:\/\/yusipka.com\/?p=299","url_meta":{"origin":61,"position":0},"title":"Itsy Bitsy Part 2","author":"Kevin Steel","date":"November 18, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"First order of business; my title, Ma valise mal a l'aise, passed the French test of someone who knows the language much better than I. 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