29 setembro 2014

não veem os olhos do predador a brilhar na noite

There is a ritualistic symbolism at work in sex crime that most women do not grasp and therefore cannot arm themselves against. It is well-established that the visual faculties play a bigger role in male sexuality, which accounts for the greater male interest in pornography. The sexual stalker, who is often an alienated loser consumed with his own failures, is motivated by an atavistic hunting reflex. He is called a predator precisely because he turns his victims into prey.
Sex crime springs from fantasy, hallucination, delusion, and obsession. A random young woman becomes the scapegoat for a regressive rage against female sexual power: “You made me do this.” Academic clichés about the “commodification” of women under capitalism make little sense here: It is women’s superior biological status as magical life-creator that is profaned and annihilated by the barbarism of sex crime.
Misled by the naive optimism and “You go, girl!” boosterism of their upbringing, young women do not see the animal eyes glowing at them in the dark. They assume that bared flesh and sexy clothes are just a fashion statement containing no messages that might be misread and twisted by a psychotic. They do not understand the fragility of civilization and the constant nearness of savage nature.
Camille Paglia*

* Uma das minhas autoras favoritas

5 comentários:

zazie disse...

Pois eu não suporto esta fufa.

Anónimo disse...

Zazie,

Os gostos sexuais da Camille não me interessam em absoluto. Gosto é a da obra dela.

Joaquim

zazie disse...

Mas os gostos dela estão em tudo quanto escreve.

Torce tudo em função de uma fufice de camionista.

Anónimo disse...

Não concordo. Basta ver o exemplo deste texto.

Joaquim

zazie disse...

Sabe lá ela o que motiva os crimes sexuais.

Há-os de todos os feitios. Incluindo os misóginos.