NP but RIP Hugh Hefner --since no one else here might.

[Mark Thibodeau]

Quite possibly the only "feminist" writer more pedantic and less
enlightening/insightful than Steinem is her bugbear, the execrable
yammering cunt-rarian harpy, Hurricane Camille Paglia. What a shrill,
boring mediocrity this woman is.

JL

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On Sat, Oct 7, 2017 at 4:43 AM, Kai Frederik Lorentzen <lorentzen at hotmail.de
> wrote:

>
> > When we worship beauty, we are worshipping life itself.
>
> http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/camille-paglia-hugh-
> hefners-legacy-trumps-masculinity-feminisms-sex-phobia-1044769
>
>
> Am 29.09.2017 um 10:28 schrieb Mark Kohut:
>
> I woke up this morning thinking my coy allusive words about Updike's
> remark would probably make anyone
> think he said something about the beauty of naked women ala Playboy for
> young men. Stupidly wrong.
>
> The quote has heart, and is not just about naked or artistic nude beauty
> and is close to this: The most beautiful sight
> a young man--he means when we were still boys--sees is the naked body of a
> woman---he meant girl, a peer--he is in love with.
> There....
>
> She was beautiful.
>
> On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 4:25 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I reveal myself surely unflatteringly and surely politically incorrectly
>> these days
>> when I say the 'working title' of GR, before I was enlightened by all of
>> the
>> Orientalists, *Mindless Pleasures* usually made me think of Playboy
>> Magazine.
>> Even the stories and articles.
>>
>> I  won't quote John Updike's wonderful insight into most inartistic young
>> men and beauty here
>> for fear of everyone, but think of nudes in art history and imagine what
>> he said.
>>
>> Thank you for everything Hugh, including paying Dick Gregory to find the
>> bodies of
>> the murdered civil rights workers in the 60's.
>>
>>
>>
>
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