“No support for diary industry!, Sen. From Vermont!”, they demand.

Oy. Poor Bernie doesn’t seem to have the capacity to defend himself from these angry women, nor will they stop I think, now they’ve had two such assaultive successes against him. He needs help — like strongmen on and astride the stages to take down the milchcows before they get to him.

Anyhow, on my knees hands clasped skyward: thank you Jesus for answering my prayers. And Jesus, keep ’em coming, please you.

My, how romantic. 🙁

https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/movie-features/dr-ruth-interview-documentary-829825/

Even Duck-Duck-Go isn’t helping; this is all I could find on the backlash, but I know I didn’t read Huffpo at the time. Anyway, the point is, Dr. Ruth is correct about the decision point being BEFORE you get into bed together.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/dr-ruth-sexual-consent_n_7499626

A tiny snippet:

** The intoxication that follows from moral certitude is one important reason that the modern academy is increasingly inimical to free speech and everything that surrounds the cultivation of free speech: free inquiry, free action, and free minds. **

And a longer:

** In my book Tenured Radicals, I included a section on “academia and infantilization.” But when I wrote in 2008, the rhetoric of “safe spaces,” “microaggressions” and “trigger warnings” had not yet blazed its destructive path through the hearts and minds of students. Women back then made a point of declaring their independence, their ability to stand on their own two feet and make decisions for themselves. They would have rejected with contemptuous ridicule the idea that a college dean or “diversity officer” should police or protect their sex lives.

Nowadays, of course, victimhood is a badge of election. I will not attempt to plumb the depressing reasons for this unlovely development other than to note that it represents another side of that infantilization I mentioned a moment ago.

The crybully, who has weaponized his coveted status as a victim, was first sighted in the mid-2000s. He has two calling cards, race and gender. By coincidence Lawrence Summers, then president of Harvard University, was involved in the evolution of both. **

How nice that what was once known as “The Walk of Shame” , now has a “recovered memories” Title IX option for “buyers remorse” in restoring one’s contractual virginity.

Dionysus is god. A “new” god, in need of defense, or “argument”. But an “old” god, by his own measure, for he “returns”.

His Maenads are our #MeToo cultists. Our cultists worship a “new” god(ess), here unnamed, though momentarily located in the linked Reason article as a sticker on the computer of one of Kaiman’s inquisitors: “The Future is Female”.

A burning bush! She is who she is (mixing metaphors and so to speak). Acknowledge Her, or perish.

Our frenzied cultists — the #MeToos — are drunken alright, drunken on power. Our Pentheus is here the bewildered rando male who falls unknowing into their clutches, to meet his dismemberment.

Paglia ought to be able to have a field day with this stuff, I’d reckon. But better her than me.

In some other, possibly quieter sense, it seems we have here a mere reemergence of an ineradicable paganism, a paganism long thought gone extinct, due to the beneficent ministrations of universalist Christianity.

Not so fast, eh? Stubborn human nature sticks around.