American Women Make Lousy Lovers
Taki
give each new day the aspect of a world new-born, his Apollonian rage for order short-circuits his efforts to comprehend quixotic outbursts. Children are antinomians, and hence must be...
...Yet how many of today's soi-disant talented women and feminists can claim her achievements...
...Anyone familiar with the vast outpouring of bilge from America's bulldyke intelligentsia knows that today's American feminist has joined Lawrenson's oily types in ceaselessly maligning the American male...
...They have no business in that far country where boys dig caves, climb trees, dream dreams, and decorate the landscape with once-in-a-lifetime creations...
...And throughout history there have been women who despite numerous achievements could find fulfillment only by giving birth and mothering a child...
...As a true blue friend of the USA, I regard it my duty to report these findings and to sound the alarm...
...Where their careers are concerned no office prejudice or bully bothers them...
...But yet again their physical beauty detracts from their lovemaking because of their antiseptic manner...
...Weatherwomen were encouraged to inseminate themselves artific i a l l y - w i t h the sperm of homosexual men...
...And it is in this particular field that the old world enjoys a tremendous advantage over the new one...
...I like my sex pure and exciting...
...But because the noblest role of all can only be that of mother and booster of the male, it must be stated that the liberated female's greatest crime has been to degrade this role, a crime no less perverse than infanticide...
...Before considering this data on farmland 18 TIlE AMERICAN SPECTATOR AUGUST 1982...
...I know I would if I had met her...
...Yet whenever I find myself trapped in the company of liberated women I feel as if I am in the company of those greasy Cuban chauvinists Lawrenson portrayed so accurately...
...No wonder so few liberated women in the United States are happy...
...The reaction from the American females was one of surprise bordering on outrage...
...As if those granite glares and that obsessive competitiveness weren't enough, there is that dogged, hard-nosed effort to improve her physical appearance which alone could turn one off for life...
...THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR AUGUST 1982 17 I suspect that what lurks behind femininist thinking is a fear of failure and a reluctance to compete on equal terms with men in the artistic and business fields...
...He first inquires, then he listens to the not very satisfactory answers, and then he commands...
...9 The Reifsteck family owns as good a piece of potential heavy-industry development land as exists in Champaign County, Illinois...
...This claim is being fueled by false statistical assertions...
...My favorite anti-male writing, however, is something I picked at random while researching this article: It is attributed to Robin Morgan...
...They act in an antiseptic 16 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR AUGUST 1982 way and they even smell of chemicals...
...It's the same as when an elegant woman confronted by a slob chauvinist looks for someone else...
...The heart of the NALS case is that farmland--and particularly cropland, as distinct from pasture, forest, and other farmland-is being urbanized at an unprecedented rate...
...American women have always been physically among the most beautiful in the world...
...It goes against my grain to have to say 'Please may I do this with the land,'" he says...
...Take Jane Fonda...
...And to relive or rediscover that past, one naust turn to art which not only reproduces scenes and events but incites the imagination of the auditor to take part in the creative process...
...Perhaps it derives from the fact that most women today in America were taught that speaking or thinking about sex was bad, and have reacted by doing the contrary...
...He had met an American girl and after a decent interval ended up in bed with her...
...While reading Connell's two masterworks, I constantly feel that "inexplicable presence...
...In speaking of "the precious, the incommunicable past," Willa Cather at least implied that the very pastness of the past causes it to be precious...
...Others simply said it is not right to take some of the most fertile land in the world and pave it over, even if this would increase the value and output of that land...
...England has always had ruling queens, so did Russia until the Communist coup d'&at...
...American men, needless to say, are partly to blame...
...When not immediately suspicious ( " I know what you're a f t e r " ) , they think equal opportunity means taking the lead where sex is concerned...
...haranguer on earth, but it is also the truth that the American woman ranks among the lousiest lovers in the world...
...In trying to show that the most important thing created by the lkerary artist is what one feels "upon the page," Miss Cather remarked: "It is the inexplicable presence of the thing not named, of the overtone divined by the ear but not heard by it, the verbal mood, the emotional aura of fact or the thing or the deed, that gives high quality to the novel or the drama, as well as to poetry itself...
...four children "to help me farm evenings and weekends and to have a lifestyle we have all worked f o r . " But Linn County is considering enacting a law that would require Lam to pay a $50 fee and receive county permission to give the lots to his children to build on...
...C'est tout...
...He wants to give a one-acre lot to each of his...
...If I had any advice for an American woman, I would say: Forget about becoming sensual and sexual through instruction books...
...A woman's romantic ideal of a man is of a strong male paying homage to her...
...The likely rate is only about a third of the amount claimed by the National Agricultural Lands Study, a rate probably no greater but rather less than in the past, and certainly not three times the rate in the recent past as claimed by NALS...
...But he soon found the committee's preoccupation with preventing farmland conversion made it difficult to get the committee to attend to any urban zoning issues at all...
...Too many liberated women sound as if they've been reading the Playboy or Penthouse philosophy...
...I can't think of any...
...She would be the first to denounce the blatant aggressiveness of modern feminists as an insult to women's intelligence...
...One of the main agents in whipping up this scare about "vanishing" farmland has been the National Agricultural Lands Study (NALS), a creature of the Carter Administration...
...The main reason so few of them are into self-analysis and nervous breakdowns is simple...
...And the Sturms even offered to put in a special septic system...
...Only an Iranian freely consenting to the clsador could be much worse...
...9 Robert Lam, a schoolteacher in Springville, Iowa, owns and operates an 80-acre farm...
...The first American girlfriend I had was a Southern belle...
...Yet another sign of feminist futility has been the effort to spread the notion that men are sexually fragile and fearful of an aggressive female...
...Every European male who has done any field research in the area is aware of the appalling condition: the more lib.erated the Yankee female, the lousier the lover...
...The sensuous woman, the romantic female, is the opposite of the Jane Fonda stereotype...
...Her nasal whine transforms what is a beautiful body into an object as sexy as the Boubourg Pombidou center, that monument to physical insensibility...
...During a recent dinner with some European male friends and three American ladies I remember saying that it was a man's duty to pay for a woman, as well as to treat her with a certain respect because she was a woman...
...Envy breeds hate...
...Only worse, much worse...
...And one does not have to possess sibylline powers to guess who men like to kill, according to Miss Dworkin...
...This is not the case with European or Oriental women...
...NALS "has built a strong case for protecting good agricultural land," he says...
...Stop the hate rhetoric against men...
...Children are antinomians, and hence must be restrained from running amuck...
...After all, the problem is not confined to America...
...In order to strip away bourgeois inhibition one had to expunge even the slightest element of heterosexual pleasure from procreation or the sex act itself...
...At the same time, she is saying that the past we recall most poignantly is that which is most incommunicable...
...They act out the female role...
...Mrs...
...In their feverish pursuit of Olympian sex, American women of today have replaced the Latin men of yesterday as the sexual monkeys of the world, and the worst lovers...
...Another feminist writer, one Andrea Dworkin, begins an essay with this grandiose statement: "Men love death...
...Let me explain...
...Personally, I don't mind what they do with their little neuroses, but I do mind their becoming such lousy lovers out of hate and bitterness...
...Despite the plethora of instructional books published almost daily on how to manipulate their bodies and the bodies of their sex partners, American women are becoming lousier lovers with each passing discussion about pleasure, ecstasy, and their belief that sex remains the principal confrontation by which to work out new values...
...The ensuing ordeals have become a plague worse than herpes simplex number 2. I am an unabashed admirer of the fair sex...
...The only thing I, a simple Greek boy, can add to this is that Miss Rich must either have strange friends or suffer terribly from repressed desires...
...Some feminists see that as a sign of impotence, which is as erroneous as the notion that the Alps are flat...
...Food Exports" (Chicago Tribune...
...And where will it all take them...
...Her femininity guarantees it...
...Douglas will have none of that, of course...
...Secretary of Agriculture John Block is on record as agreeing with this product of the Carter years, referring to the loss of agricultural land as " a crisis in the making," similar to the energy situation ten years ago...
...I have never been more turned off," was his reaction...
...Farmland Losses Could End U.S...
...They may go around killing innocent people, but during their off hours they actually indulge in bourgeois customs such as making love with men they like...
...Bridge is a more formidable foe since he can recall having done the same things Douglas is now doing and hence knows that reason is a feeble stick...
...The man who allows his woman to make him feel impotent is simply not very manly...
...And the scare has not departed with the arrival of Ronald Reagan...
...The gifted English writer Anthony HadenGuest was telling me about his most traumatic experience since landing on these shores...
...Florence Nightingale not only did not hold it against men when the medical profession closed its doors to her, but after becoming successful made a point of writing about the lack of cooperation shown her by women employed in that field...
...By treating lovemaking as an athletic contest the liberated woman has managed to take all sexual pleasure out of it...
...Stop being hysterical and try to emulate your sisters overseas who long ago discovered something vastly superior to your unhappiness, namely: sex...
...It has taken on global proportions...
...In order to illustrate how deeply puzzled and unhappy American feminists are, here are a few examples of their wisdom regarding men in general and sex in particular: The feminist novelist Marge Piercy describes a college where women seem to study only men...
...Although throughout ancient Greek tragedy women might appear as helpers of men, there is also plenty of evidence of men holding women in high esteem and great affection...
...She was not only very beautiful, but was also a top student and as romantic as any European...
...9 State Representative Richard Mugalian was delighted to chair the zoning committee of the Illinois House of Representatives...
...Her recent death reminded me of that doughty defense of the American male, and I wondere.d whether an American woman today would leap to the defense of the Yankee male...
...What a difference, I thought...
...It is supposedly a private sacrament, perhaps without sense, but beautiful and even noble nonetheless...
...Most of the decently married bedrooms across America are settings for nightly r a p e . " The radical feminist attitude of today reminds me of the revolutionary message sent out by Mark Rudd and his think-alikes during the sixties...
...Ditto Jane Austen, the BrontSs, George Eliot, and Harriet Beecher Stowe, to name but a few...
...Romantic women have always been "man-related...
...Now I can think of nothing less ro-manticwand therefore less sexually attractive--than today's liberated American woman...
...Women are sensual by nature...
...A woman who flouts that subtlety strikes me as no better than a prostitute who propositions men on the street...
...Now I have given Miss Lawrenson's historic essay, "Latins Make Lousy Lovers," some further thought...
...Or laugh so little...
...Some spoke of possible starvation in Julian L. Simon is Professor of Economics and Business Administration at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign...
...The proposed development was opposed in hearings before the zoning commission and the city council by people who claim that the development would mean a loss of prime farmland vital to the nation and the world...
...Like the Latin males in Lawrenson's essay, American women see everything in terms of conquest...
...I especially enjoy the hate militant feminists show for such devoted and successful wives as Nancy Reagan and Pat Nixon...
...Although Haden-Guest's experience might be an aberration, my research indicates that this is typical of the fate of anyone who falls into the trap of the liberated American woman of today...
...Or comfortable with men...
...Stop being so driven, so hateful of your sex organs...
...As World Needs Food, U.S...
...Unless American women shape up and begin acting like women" should, all suffering and embattled American males should pull a Lysistrata in reverse and begin replacing not their cars but their wives with European modds...
...It reminds me of those Latin lovers who compare women's talents in bed...
...Unlike the Luces and the Thatchers of this world, feminists have discovered the perfect subterfuge...
...And again I wonder: What American woman would be capable of writing such a piece today...
...A letter with eleven signatures, however, objecting to the conversion of "prime farmland," caused the request to be tabled by the County Zoning Board despite being approved by the County Planning Commission, the County Zoning Board of Appeals, and the County Board'szoning committee...
...This is no Arthurian hogwash...
...It abuts on a railroad siding, is very close to the intersection of two interstate highways, is next to an area already being used for heavy industry, and is even located so that the prevailing winds would blow any odors away from town...
...Soon after I left university and came to New York I realized how rare she was...
...Thatcher, the quintessential housekeeper, mother, and homebody, was elected prime minister in a nation famous for its suppressed womanhood...
...In her futile search for sexual perfection, the liberated woman reminds me of those muscle-bound types who desperately try to pump a bit more iron...
...Since the rise of the sexual revolution it has become all but impossible to keep her off our bar stools and out of our bedrooms...
...Women see romance as their justification and their security...
...Speaking of the latter, what has emerged from all the bilge feminists are spouting is that American women have turned themselves into moral clones of those male chauvinists one reads about in horror stories...
...Taki AMERICAN WOMEN MAKE LOUSY LOVERS Another chapter from the ugly history of American feminism by an erudite student of the venery arts...
...Just because the tendency nowadays is to take whatever tradition we've inherited and drown it in a sea of realism, this doesn't obliterate the fact that nothing could be more wrong and less attractive...
...The reason Clare Boothe Luce is not the ultimate female heroine is that she is resented by her inferiors...
...They are all conceited, spoiled, callous, crass, uncouth, bullying, rapists, liars, murderers, sadists, and in general types that would be unsuitable as Gulag guards...
...Now there is nothing a normal man finds less erotic than the severance of those bonds that have always governed the subtle give and take between the sexes...
...The answer has to be a resounding no...
...By forgetting the natural order of things American women are forgetting that the most important element of the female constitution is to be sexually and spiritually attractive to the male...
...Here's a pearl from her piece about women in a white-dominated society: "A woman is carnally hated, meant not to be merely dominated or humiliated in daily life, but beaten in bondage, forced to eat feces, her nipples rubbed raw with pincers, her body fed into a meat grinder...
...No resort anywhere in Europe is off limits to the American woman...
...A lousy lover, after all, is someone who gives no pleasure to his or her partner...
...The truth is that the American woman has become a superb jogger, an amazing receptacle of vitamin pills, and the most formidable female 7'aki is The American Spectator's new European editor...
...Ditto India and China, old and great civilizations that they were...
...Mothers may be necessary to life and perform needed services, but they must be kept in their place...
...Those oppressed Victorian women who broke out of their confinement did not blame man for the secondary role of women in medicine, science, and government...
...I don't know Clare Luce but I bet her husband found her one of the best lovers imaginable...
...Indeed I am incapable of living without it...
...Again, the only thing I can say is thank God for European women...
...They are too weak to be tender and loving...
...Needless to say, there is not a single decent man among them...
...I remember witnessing the scene of a drunken Shirley MacLaine swearing at someone who had stepped on her in El Morocco...
...Just before undressing, the girl turned to him and said: "You better be good or else...
...Perhaps that is why so many European men, yours truly included, have always found American women to be suffering from a certain desperation in their roles as women...
...THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR AUGUST 1982 15 I t is an accepted fact that love between humans is not merely an indulgence in carnal pleasure...
...That, at least, is what the shrinks might say, but I don't buy it...
...Keats touched on the same theme when he noted that unheard melodies are sweeter than those heard...
...Where European women really excel, however, is in the male/female relationship...
...He had always been interested in urban zoning issues, and he thought this would be a chance to put some of his ideas to work...
...That is hard to predict, but I do have one solution...
...It was, she said, a reaction to having been "aroused to a high pitch of indignation by hearing American men constantly maligned...
...parents are policemen, and hence must be gotten around...
...And it dawned on me that people were actually paying money to see that shrewish woman on the screen...
...For all that, this remarkable woman has always described herself as a housewife, and admits that despite all the intellectual stimulation of her various careers, the thing that mattered most was "a good strong arm you can really lean on and talk...
...Worse, they have reduced sex to a physical exchange, stripping it of richness and subtlety, robbing it ultimately of all emotional value while turning it into a manipulative technique...
...The art of seduction was perfected by women, not by men...
...1"7 6o6D0Q0P~000Qo00eQGODQQQ04O0OQ~00O0g004eQQ60I0QQo00O0BQt~0O000006.0OgQ0QQOQO~Q0QO9Q0OO DQe0IQQ9o0OO0oO060QQOUQu~e00QQ0OoQ0~0QoQ~0mQQoQ06~Q~Q4~IQmQQ000 Julian L. Simon THE FARMER AND THE MALL: ARE AMERICAN FARMLANDS DISAPPEARING ? The eco-freaks in our government say yes, but Julian L. Simon says beware of the next political scam...
...Keeps Losing Soil to Land Developers" (Wall Street Journal...
...Like the best art of whatever kindmliterature, music, sculpture, painting--the Bridge novels appeal to both the imagination and the memory...
...Nor have they ever been kept down or awed by the grandeur of an exalted office or position...
...Unlike their counterparts in America, women in Europe know how to manipulate the male by allowing him to act out his macho fantasies...
...There was agreement that the land is wet and hence hardly prime for farming...
...Shades of what Latins did to the physical exchange forty years ago...
...Otherwise what is to separate us from the animal kingdom...
...9 Victor and Margot Sturm of Princeton Township, Illinois, who raise Arabian horses, requested a zoning change from agricultural to rural estate for a 2.5-acre homesite...
...Stop measuring your achievements against those of men and you will be surprised at how quickly they recognize your achievements...
...They have treated their women with such obsequiousness for so long that these women have come to see themselves as a special breed of female...
...Even the female terrorists in Italy have not gone so far...
...Nothing, of course, could be further from the truth...
...Nothing more, nothing less...
...The Peril of Vanishing Farmlands" (New York Times...
...Luce was a successful editor, playwright, member of Congress, and ambassador besides being rich and famous and never allowing any of it to go to her head...
...His two most recent books are The Ultimate Resource and The Economics of Population Growth...
...When Helen Lawrenson wrote in Esquire some four decades ago that Latins are "lousy lovers," she made it clear that hers was not an embittered chauvinistic diatribe against those macho types from south of the border...
...Bridge and Douglas and all the others live in a little world I very much enjoy revisiting...
...the future...
...What is certain is that the only thing worse than men's proverbial locker-room bragging about their conquests is hearing women discuss male sexual performance...
...Even Betty Friedan realized that something was amiss when she recently admitted that feminists are unhappy...
...When a manly fellow is confronted by a butch woman, he simply turns away and looks elsewhere for an elegant one...
...I don't know what she looks like but I'm turned off for life...
...Given the above facts it is surprising that so few women have come out to denounce feminism as a cruel hoax...
...For example, Douglas, the youngest and most delightful of the Bridge children, constantly bewilders and dismays his mother, who makes the not uncommon parental mistake of trying to get inside his mind and thus trap the animal in his lair...
...9 And then there are these headlines from a sampling of recent newspaper and magazine stories: "Vanishing Farmlands: Selling Out The Soil" (Saturday Review...
...Tenderness toward the fair and weaker sex is romantic...
...The urge for sexual solidarity is a powerful and omnipresent female yearning...
...Mercifully, Piercy's men are fictitious, but Adrienne Rich writes nonfiction...
...not to mention the many other stories from the Christian Science Monitor, Gannett News Service, and the Associated Press, typically reprinted with alarmist headlines in the smaller newspapers across the country...
Vol. 15 • August 1982 • No. 8
