Writes Salman Rushdie in the NYT,
We find it easier, in
these confused times, to admire physical bravery than moral courage — the
courage of the life of the mind, or of public figures.
Well, whatever else they are, the girls of Pussy Riot surely
desire to be described and thought of
as, shall we say, hussies, do they
not?
Without that, where would be the frisson?
And how much courage does it take a man like Chomsky, who
has always been perfectly free to be an ass without risking so much as his
tenure, to protest “in the face of American power”?
Is that silly babbler really supposed to be remotely in the
same league as the obviously quite brave people Rushdie catalogues before mentioning
the boobs of OWS and that notorious academic radical?
Pshaw.
By the way, how can it be denied that it reveals something that women are the ones who find it a wonderful idea, an idea they then actually carry out, to strip and reveal their sexual parts to attract attention to a political point, while men do not.
It is almost as if the political point were a pretext, is it not?
And what does that tell us about the different natures of the human male and the human female?
By the way, how can it be denied that it reveals something that women are the ones who find it a wonderful idea, an idea they then actually carry out, to strip and reveal their sexual parts to attract attention to a political point, while men do not.
It is almost as if the political point were a pretext, is it not?
And what does that tell us about the different natures of the human male and the human female?
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