--- In [email protected], "markmeredith2002" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <snip> > > And to go back to an earlier topic, why was the Cosmo > > nude centerfold of Burt Reynolds such a sensation when > > it was first published? Why was he vilified for it in > > many quarters? > > > We've come a long way, baby, since then, but not far > > enough. > > There are a growing number of feminist writers like paglia and > others who are much more accepting of female sexuality in all its > forms than the early more puritanical feminists.
I wasn't referring to the feminists, puritanical or otherwise. I don't recall any of them vilifying Reynolds, although I may have missed it. The outcry I meant was from traditionalists who were threatened by the notion that women were sexual beings and that men could ever be seen as sex objects. > I think there's a lot of > unhealthy puritanism in the eastern spiritual trip as well. I agree. > In short I'm all for fighting the sexual exploitation of women but > don't want to support the sexual neutrality, the lack of sexual > polarity and shakti that you tend to see many spiritual circles. Good for you. The initial stance of *some* (by no means all) feminists was at the far end of the pendulum swing, sort of a Lysistrata effect: things are *so* screwed up we need to remove sexuality from the equation altogether. But that didn't fly, exactly because women *are* sexual beings; and most have a sexual preference for men, so lesbianism wasn't an option for them. The swings of the pendulum are gradually becoming less extreme, but it hasn't come to rest yet in anything like a state of balance. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
