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NY Beta Times criticizes liberal who blasted SlutWalks & C.O.
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NY Beta Times criticizes liberal who blasted SlutWalks & C.O.

So Mr. Bruce Bawer, who earned a PhD in English in 1980 and achieved some fame in 1993 for writing about gay rights and other stuff, has written a book "The Victims Revolution".

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Bawer takes justifiable pride in the contribution he made to the “sea change” that has since taken place for gays in America, most of whom “weren’t the political extremists or sexual subversives that both the antigay right and gay left said we were” — and for whom the United States is a much less hostile place now than it was even 20 years ago. In the late ’90s, he left the country, first for Amsterdam, then for Oslo, where he has continued to write on social and political themes — notably the threat that he believes “radical Islam” poses to the future of Europe.

A couple of years ago, Bawer made a trip home to see what’s happened to the academic world he left behind. He attended a few conferences for women’s studies, black studies, queer studies and Chicano studies, where he heard plenty of cant, as when a participant at a “Fat Studies” conference explained her veganism by declaring: “Dairy is a feminist issue. Milk comes from a grieving mother.” He found, in abundance, what he’s looking for: ­jargon-spewing careerists posing as radicals, semiliterate professors of literature and widespread condemnation of reason itself as a hoax perpetrated by the powerful on the powerless. Based on this sample, he concludes that the contemporary American academy is a place of hypocrisy and fear, where tenured professors proclaim empty solidarity with exploited workers, and Take Back the Night rallies promote the idea that “male students metamorphose, werewolf-like, into potential rapists” every night.

Of course, the giant hamster in the NY Beta Times book reviewer absolutely won't let this searing and precise summary of modern academia stand, and he soon retaliates with cliches:

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There’s a modicum of truth to this picture — but it’s mostly a caricature (HCE: is it?). Bawer’s reconnaissance report is out of date. He delivers it with flashes of indignant wit, as when he notes the late queer theorist Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s “tendency to insert words like liminal and preterition and alimentative into sentences, much in the manner of a malicious child shoving a stick into the spokes of a moving bicycle. The intent in both cases is the same: to show off — and to throw off.” But this kind of thing is a shrinking sector of academic life, on which, in any event, the generation that came of age in the ’70s and ’80s is ­losing its grip.

Occasionally Bawer acknowledges that the times are changing, as when he notes that some feminists admit feeling “conflicted about abortion,” or that some scholars voice dissent from postmodern and countercultural orthodoxies — maintaining, for instance, that there has been progress in American race relations. “Yesterday’s shock,” he writes, “is today’s bore.” But he doesn’t seem to realize that lots of academics of different genders, ages and sexual orientations agree with him.

Bawer lacks the balance whose absence he condemns in others — as when he ridicules the African-American scholar Michael Eric Dyson for arguing that “body piercing and baggy clothes express identity among black youth.” I’m not a big fan of publicly exposed underwear myself, but I don’t understand why jeans hung low on a black teenager constitute “mindless copycatting” (Bawer’s phrase) any more than Topsiders and polo shirts once did for the white Ivy League set.

Bawer misses most of this. He writes with sincerity and fervor, but is overwrought by his own outrage (HCE: I didn't realize the term "mindless copycatting" sounded so angry!). He denounces a black studies professor for writing prose “awash in elementary agreement problems,” but his own writing is awash in dubious assertions about the realities of American life, as when he claims that “by the late 20th century virtually every young person in America had the opportunity to acquire a real higher education.” Tell that to the many young people mired in poverty, damaged by dysfunctional schools, languishing in prison or drowning in debt. (HCE: because feminism certainly had nothing to do with all that, no sir)
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I think this Bruce Bawer guy is awesome. Were it not for Roosh's last post about disassociating from Men's Rights Movements in general, I'd propose that we invite him on the forum and link him the Online Girl Hamster Thread!

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NY Beta Times criticizes liberal who blasted SlutWalks & C.O.

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but I don’t understand why jeans hung low on a black teenager constitute “mindless copycatting” (Bawer’s phrase) any more than Topsiders and polo shirts once did for the white Ivy League set.

This, to me, is a huge misunderstanding. There wasn't a 'white culture' before black culture in america. There was american culture. Sure, america was predominately white, but it was american culture all the same. 99% of us dressed the same, talked the same and acted the same because it was american culture (melting pot, remember?). But now, we need to stand up for our individual cultures, and we cant be dressing like the whites! oh no!

White ivy league kids didn't dress like whites - they dressed like Americans.

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