THE FEMININE GENERATION? | 2007-02-04
We are well aware that homosexual priests had a field day, no, a field decade, no, field CENTURIES. No one was allowed to say that the Catholic Church would not only allow such perversion, but SUPPORT them. There was not a single bishop in the entire Catholic hierarchy who was not fully aware that he or his fellows were taking child molesters and sending them to practice in other parishes.
These days the Navy, past and present, is endlessly subject to jokes about the captain and his cabin boy. English private schools are routinely shown as the perversion palaces they were. The only giant 100% all-male preserve that no one has allowed a hint of homosexuality to penetrate is the US Army.
So let me make a few points. Aleksander Solzhenitsyn in The Gulag Archipelago talked about the different reaction of male and female prisoners to being interrogated in the Lubyanka. Solzhenitsyn is a great observer of personalities, and he noted that while both male and female prisoners were terrified, there was a different quality to the female terror:
"Here was this MAN, this interrogator, who would have her helpless in a chair ..." The women would actually use any makeup they could find, not to seduce the KGB man, but to ENJOY their submissiveness.
Thinking about that, I thought about how uneasy I was when I would be arguing with young men on the Internet about race, and hear them talk about their black sergeant. Here was a guy who had them in submission, who screamed at them.
And they LOVED him.
These are people who go ballistic at the idea of antimiscegenation laws, because their black sergeants naturally got white women whenever they could. "And," I can hear them saying, "My sweet sergeant had a RIGHT to them!"
Sorry, I mean, "My sergeant, a black American who was a comrade in arms, had a RIGHT to them!"
I got paid to be an expert in what people were REALLY saying, and sometimes it slips out.
I wonder why World War II movies are so DESPERATELY heterosexual. In many of them you have a lovely blond woman show up at the all-male preserve and some old guy who has spent his life in that preserve says, "Now, boys, you see what you are fighting FOR."
But the one thing that EVERY World War II vet has agreed to, actively or in his usual femininely passive way, is that he was fighting AGAINST blond beauty. As Pat Buchanan said thirty years ago, when I hated him for it, "Our men died at Normandy so that Europe would be open to third world immigration."
But in movie after movie, the old "bachelor" says that they were fighting FOR blond Nordic beauty.
If you are to be a reasonably intelligent adult, you have to move WAY beyond Shakespeare's "Methinks he doth protest too much."
Sitting in a committee hearing, I once asked a fellow staffer, "Do you think he knew about it?"
His reply was, "He denied it four times before anybody asked him about it."