Catholic Academics Pedestalizing Women

Catholic Moral Theology: The End of Sex

Who is hooking with whom? What of women's competition for the alpha and their pursuit of recreational sex or sex in LTRs over marriage?
Men and women are not subject to the same pressures or expectations, nor are they shut out of the market equally or in the same way.

Hookup culture on college campuses is not a problem for academics to address, except in so far as they are wise members of a community. But academics are not noted for being wise or being members of a community. The same egalitarian ideology that enables female academics to attain positions (in moral theology, no less) in the first place is also the ideology that is the basis of hookup culture.

Edit. How many would be willing to read, much less agree with, this: "Let’s talk about sluts"?

Items of Interest 22 July 2010

Rod Dreher, Bad economy! Bad, bad economy! and China is turning Christian and Goodbye, Beliefnet! Hello, BQO!
Fred Reed, Getting What You Want, Wanting What You Get: An Unbiased Study of Feminism


Energy Bulletin:
The peak oil crisis: thinking about China (original)

Tom Whipple, Falls Church News-Press

Whether Beijing's formula of mixed capitalism and state control of key enterprises will prove to be durable over the long run has yet to be seen. What we do know, however, is that a few more years of surging energy consumption will soon be playing havoc with energy prices around the world.

Oil production during deleveraging (original)

Stuart Staniford, Early Warning

I've been musing on the interaction between a) an extended period of economic stagnation/contraction due to deleveraging, and b) peak oil.

Counterpunch:
Gary Leupp, Obama's Afghan War in Perspective

Bruce E. Levine, How Psychologists Profit on Unending U.S. Wars

Chastened

Just listened to part of an interview of the author of Chastened: The Unexpected Story of My Year Without Sex, Hephzibah Anderson, by Rabbi Daniel Lapin on AM 560. Has Rabbi Lapin had Dawn Eden on his show? Chastened may reach a broader audience than Thrill of the Chaste, but I think the latter is "spiritual" without being preachy about religion. Still, Chastened may be of help to young women today by getting them to rethink how they conduct their love lives.

Related:
My (Voluntary) Year Without Sex -- A Q&A With Hephzibah Anderson


Smithmag Interview
(She's attractive.)

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