I tend to like Camille Paglia's straight-shooting kind of feminism which respects gender differences, although she is public lesbian. Paglia believes, like Freud, that the pagan exists beneath our repressed Judeo-Christian culture and she champions art which celebrates the pagan, or her interpretation of paganism, as she praised Madonna a few decades ago. Our culture does repress many of the drives and instincts of basic human nature and one can almost see why white Eminem would choose black rap as a means of more open expression.
Although I don't
really like to reach into the private
sexual preferences of anyone, homosexuality actually represses
real human nature. Homosexuality is, in essence, the sexual
preference for achieving orgasm with the same-gender, which is a
sexual activity distant from the central survival and reproductive
drives that monopolize real human nature; orgasm was evolved as an
incentive for reproduction. When the same-gender sexual preference is
elevated and promoted as a whole life style it blocks or subverts the
larger basic elements of human nature, reducing their importance and
corrupting human nature and human behavior.
Human nature
developed many thousands of years ago and even the smallest change in
human nature and our DNA structure, for example, in our immune
system, takes hundreds of thousands of years. We remain genetically
kin-centered, gender defined, age-graded, heterosexual
marriage-making, hierarchical, ethnocentric, even xenophobic, among
other things,with group-selection as the primary unit of selection.
Exclusively promoting sexuality or violence or androgyny or
homosexuality actually represses much of real human nature, pagan or
otherwise. Let's have artists---and critics--- who express and
don't repress more of real
genetically derived human nature. This more real expression might actually
exhume a more classic kind of evolutionary realism in art related to
more traditional human nature and culture.
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