- “If civilization had been left in female hands,” wrote Camilla Paglia in her 1990 book Sexual Personae, “we would still be living in grass huts.”
...Writing from her air-conditioned room in an ivory tower designed, built, and maintained by men, intersectional feminist Kosovac believes that the days of exerting control over nature through dams, water pipelines, and sewer networks are largely over: the time has come, she writes almost mystically, “to reassess the old methods and explore new ways in our relationship with water.”
In her view, masculine over-reliance on “technological and infrastructure ‘fixes’” is preventing Australians from “work[ing] in tandem with the environment” to address the country’s water needs.
...Kosovac alleges that Australia is suffering both politically and ecologically from “toxic masculinity.”
...Kosovac alleges that Australia is suffering both politically and ecologically from “toxic masculinity.”
This is a now-standard feminist phrase striking for its bigotry and intellectual incoherence...Read all.
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