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[–]yellow_algebra_31 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Well, I didn't know Newton and Bacon talked about rape and torture metaphors in their work.

Idk, I think there's something to it.

It seems subversive, since Newton and Bacon were people we were all taught to admire and learn from (I certainly did) and this undermines them (like "Santa isn't real!" and "God isn't real!" and all those disturbing videos they tried to show kids on youtube.)

But one must also remember that Europeans were turned against their own women who were keeping their ethnic cultural traditions alive during period of persecution of witches.

I think these topics and ideas are worth discussing. There is probably a way to do it that's not subversive.

[–]Chipit[S] 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I think there's something to it.

You are insane. These feminists are insane. This isn't a new idea, either. That you would take their side looks really, really bad for you.

"The truth is that Mozart, Pascal, Boolean algebra, Shakespeare, parliamentary government, baroque churches, Newton, the emancipation of women, Kant, Marx, Balanchine ballets, et al., don't redeem what this particular civilization has wrought upon the world. The white race is the cancer of human history; it is the white race and it alone - its ideologies and inventions - which eradicates autonomous civilizations wherever it spreads, which has upset the ecological balance of the planet, which now threatens the very existence of life itself. What the Mongol hordes threaten is far less frightening than the damage that Western "Faustian" man, with his idealism, his magnificent art, his sense of intellectual adventure, his world-devouring energies for conquest, has already done, and further threatens to do."

-- Susan Sontag, Feminist, 'Styles of Radical Will' (1966)

[–]charlie6067 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Another angry white woman hating her own race. Hahahaha. Reminds me of former white dude Shaun King aka Talcum X.