http://freebeacon.com/culture/prominent ... -feminism/First of all, I must emphasize that I am a registered Democrat who voted for Bernie Sanders in the primaries and Jill Stein in the general election. Having said that, I will don my political analyst hat and say that Donald Trump’s retro style of confident masculinity (which dates from the Frank Sinatra/Hugh Hefner period) was surely a major factor in his victory and represents what was probably an inevitable and necessary course correction in American gender relations. The delirious excesses of unscientific campus gender theory, translated into intrusive government regulations by elite school graduates saturating the Obama administration, finally hit a wall with the electorate. The mainstream big-city media too have become strident echo chambers of campus gender dogma, as demonstrated by last year’s New York Times fiasco, where two wet-behind-the-ears reporters fell on their faces in trying to prosecute the Trump of his casino days as a vile sexist. I mercilessly mocked that vacuous article in my Salon.com column and stand by every word I wrote.
While Paglia does not say a word about Mormons I wonder if some of the antagonism against Trump that still comes from some portions of the LDS population is actually due to what Paglia describes as Trump's persona. Christianity in general has lost that sort of maleness in the past 20 years because they were too sensitive to charges that Christianity was too male-dominated. Mormons were especially sensitive to this due to the whole priesthood thing. So to compensate the Church went more towards emphasizing a female perspective at the same time the Church appears to see priesthood in the same way a parent does when they get a kid in the car and start lecturing them because they are a captive audience; use it to chastise the men. So men get the message that being masculine is a negative way to be. The guys who are all sensitive, speak softly, can sing well, and dress cute get the admiring glances while the men who are loud, assertive and steadfast in their attitudes are accused of arrogance and roughness. So maybe that is why so many Mormons (not a majority but a disturbingly large minority) hated Trump with a passion.
What think ye?
