Slouching Towards Gomorrah by Robert H. Bork

Author:Robert H. Bork [Bork, Robert H.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-06-203091-7
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2003-10-17T04:00:00+00:00

Radical feminists, then, are contributing more than their share to the dumbing of America. And not just America. Oxford University Press has announced Ideologies of Desire, “a startling new series in the cultural study of sex, gender, sexuality and power: redefining the meaning of erotics and politics!” The Press informs us that sex is not a matter of physiology but of culture. “The aim of the series is to illuminate both the play of desire in the workings of ideology and the play of ideological forces in the formation of sexual experiences—and, ultimately, to map more precisely the available avenues of cultural resistance to the contemporary institutional and discursive regulation of sex.“

That the object of these courses is to indoctrinate students with an all-inclusive condemnation of American or Western culture is shown by the frequent expansion of the feminist accusation from the victimization of females to a charge of general oppression. One feminist professor argues, “All students suffer when the more volatile issues central to feminist analysis … [such as] racism, poverty, incest and rape, battering, lesbianism, and reproductive freedom … are dropped from a woman’s studies course.“30 It seems odd at first glance, given this wide-ranging list of complaints, that the programs are not changed from women’s studies to oppression studies. Perhaps it is not so odd, however. If faculty representing all of the oppressed were brought in, feminists might lose control of the curriculum and the funds. Yet it is in keeping with feminism’s revolutionary neo-Marxism that the movement attacks bourgeois culture on many fronts.

As one might suspect from their hostility to men, marriage, and family, radical feminists are very much in favor of lesbianism. This involves more than the demand that lesbianism be accepted by society as just another “lifestyle “They want not only lawful lesbian marriages but “reproductive rights” for lesbians. That means the right to bear children through artificial insemination and the right to adopt one’s lesbian partner’s child. Since sperm is sold freely in the United States, much more freely than in other nations, there are lesbian couples raising children. It takes little imagination to know how the children will be indoctrinated.

In its effort to transform the curriculum, a National Women’s Studies Association conference, attended by about 700 administrators, teachers, and students, gave major consideration to including lesbian issues in feminist programs.31 The Lesbian Caucus was one of the largest contingents at the conference. Among the presentations were “Teaching Queer: Incorporating Gay and Lesbian Perspectives Into Introductory Courses”; “War on Lesbians”; “Lesbian Perspectives on/in Literature”; “Lesbian Theory in Poetry”; and “Dykeotomy.” Not surprisingly, there is in women’s studies programs a good deal of proselytizing for lesbianism. At the University of Washington, a women’s studies instructor showed the class how to masturbate, stating that “the preferable tool is a tongue, a woman’s tongue.“32

The objectives of radical feminists are not confined to the recruitment of converts through women’s studies programs alone. Their aims are imperialistic. The feminist influence has spread to other departments and graduate schools.

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