What are women for?
That’s the question asked in this piece of truly offensive chin-stroking misogyny by a wingnut named James Poulos. The very question implies that half of humanity isn’t really human at all, but is a tool, billions of identical appliances notable solely for the function(s) for which they are used by humanity’s other half. And by specifying women rather than females, you get one guess what Poulos thinks their sole function is.
The only tool in the piece is Poulos himself. Sadly, he never examines what men are for, let alone what Poulos himself is for. He’s certainly not a very useful tool. Mostly, I suspect, his function is to induce other people to bang their heads against walls. This is what our supposedly serious political discourse is reducing itself to.
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By Lansing Scott on February 18th, 2012 at 3:04 am
I have no idea who this guy is. And don’t know the website. But based on this paragraph, I have guesses.
“The purpose of lifting the left’s Potemkin skirts is not to score tits for tats. Anyone serious about thinking through the role of women in today’s civilization is doing worthless work unless they take the controversies on the right hand in hand with the unsuccessfully suppressed tensions on the opposite side of the spectrum, where disagreements far more volatile in their profundity roil respectable liberalism.”
In the first sentence (in an essay wondering what women are for), Poulos talks of tits & lifting skirts. [snicker] In the second, he appears to be trying to sound intelligent, but sounds incoherent instead. Reminds me of when I was 13-14 years old, so I’m guessing Poulos is perhaps writing an essay in his middle school newsletter?
In any case, I can’t imagine anyone other than Poulos’ middle-school buddies even reading to the end of such incoherent ramblings. It’s not like people take this stuff seriously, right?