norton ash wrote:I love humanity, I just can't stand people. Especially f**king Canadian men.
Everyone from our smug and crumbling liberal class to the rock 'em, sock 'em lumpen hoser. It's the perfect kind of hatred that comes only from knowing oneself.
I believe the root of misogyny is fear of women, and that was first planted thousands of years ago in our priestly dread of the natural world.
Heidi Laura, Lars von Trier's "misogyny consultant" on Antichrist:
The subject is as deep and wide as human civilisation itself. There is no age without its anxiety about women, and the texts and images range from sophisticated and witty to gruesome.
Call me evil, but I think the dark shadows of civilisation deserve to be seen and reflected on rather than ignored. As I moved through the sources, I realised that the age-old dichotomy between supposedly rational man and supposedly wild and uncontrollable woman, ruled by impulse and desire, has never left us.
Sources were hardly scarce: Max Weininger's early-20th-century bio-psychological description of woman as not in control of herself was close to Nietzsche's cynical reflections on the cunning nature of woman, who wants to control men, and therefore must be controlled in turn. "You are going to women? Do not forget the whip!", says one of his aphorisms.
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The male authors all seemed to agree on one thing: woman is intrinsically more connected to nature than man. This is why man rightfully fears woman: just like nature, she is beyond control.
The indictment against women I composed for Von Trier sums up the many misogynistic views all the way back to Aristotle, whose observations of nature led him to conclude that "the female is a mutilated male". Should we avoid staring into that abyss or should we acknowledge this male anxiety, perhaps even note with satisfaction that women are mostly described as very powerful beings by these anxious men?
That being said mascara APPEARS TO THICKEN lashes, sure. DARKEN, yes. Lengthen, no. Curl? you gotta be kidding. fwiw I hate leaving the house without wearing some, just so you're clear that I'm not a make-up basher, particularly mascara. Just the ads. I cannot figure out why there are so many of them and why they feel they have to say anything tricky about it in the first place. It is what it is.
