One reader's rave

"Thanks for the newspaper with your book review. I can’t tell you how impressed I am with this terrific piece of writing. It is beautiful, complex, scholarly. Only sorry Mr. Freire cannot read it!" -- Ailene

Cassie Jaye, the day before I met her at the _Red Pill_ world premiere

Monday, August 29, 2022

Quote of the Day: Robert Solomon on Love

Our roles in romance are in every case personally determined, if on the basis of public instruction, and the kinds of roles one chooses to play with one’s lover cannot be dictated a priori. To say that a woman ought to be submissive, and also to say that she ought not, is nothing less than a kind of emotional fascism, a way of dismissing and degrading huge numbers of women who find that their personal preferences do not match up to the latest official line. “The totalitarian woman” might be a better designation for the conservative tendency to confuse questions about public equality with questions about personal roles; but the tendency to confuse the demand for social equality with an authoritarian attack on love is to be found on the other side as well. Romantic love requires equality, and to deny this or to enforce it from the outside is the denial of love as well.

n  Robert C. Solomon, “Love and Feminism,” in Philosophy and Sex, ed. Robert Baker and Frederick Elliston (Buffalo, NY: Prometheus Books, 1984), adapted from Love: Emotion, Myth & Metaphor (Doubleday-Anchor, 1981)

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My birthday is coming up, and I'm holding a fundraiser for the Philosophy Learning and Teaching Organization (PLATO), a nonprofit that promotes and supports Philosophy for Children (p4c) programs in schools.

Over the past few decades we've increasingly seen children treated like infants, adolescents like children, and young adults like adolescents. Children are discouraged from an early age from thinking about big questions, which adults all too often deride as silly. Yet a capacity for philosophical thinking is essential for people to participate meaningfully in democracy. I am glad that my parents didn't discourage such thinking, and that there were a lot of books in the house that stimulated it. But I know many children aren't as fortunate. I hope you will join me in supporting PLATO in their work helping today's young people to develop into thoughtful citizens

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Thursday, August 04, 2022

Rage of Consent: How Our Love/Hate Relationship with Youth Sexuality and Abuse Hysteria Is Endangering Our Culture

Rage of Consent: How Our Love/Hate Relationship with Youth Sexuality and Abuse Hysteria Is Endangering Our Culture 

By Heather Corinna

https://web.archive.org/web/20090930044204/http://www.scarletletters.com/current/2001_rage.shtml