Standing up for a lady
An email sent to a certain Corner contributor on the occasion of a nasty column about her in one of the worst wastes of newsprint in America.
Kathryn,The particular comment irked me because it was recently used against me.Re: "Sex-obsessed"
I've never understood this charge when I hear it leveled. How is it that people whose whole world seems to revolve around "sexual orientation", who apparently spend every waking moment needing it to be accepted and even endorsed by the rest of the populace, and who go on tirades like spoiled little children when someone won't lie to them and tell them it's perfectly fine, natural, and wholesome, have the twisted mentality to suggest that anyone who dares tell them to put a sock in it is "obsessed with sex"?
Akin to calling a black person "articulate", this might just be code for someone who might otherwise be described as a "papist". Because, you know, we just love to breed. (Something our detractors have a slight problem with, for some reason.)
On a not-entirely-separate note, please post fair warning next time you want me to visit the Village Voice. Now I have to shower.
