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Sexual Anarchy In the United States
Part One Maybe you’ve heard in recent days the new terminology, “sexual anarchy.” I first heard someone use it with reference for the new male cheerleaders for National Football League teams. The two words together were the title of a book by feminist professor at Princeton, Elaine Showalter. She says that “sexual anarchy” was first […]
The Recent Olympic Last Supper Controversy: Worse than Weird
The opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics parodied the Leonardo DaVinci painting, The Last Supper, using drag queens to represent Jesus and the twelve disciples. Later answering the criticism, organizers, including artistic director Thomas Jolly, insisted they intended the scene to represent Dionysius, the Greek god of wine, fertility, and revelry. The tableau looked identical […]
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