Page 113 - Push Back

(Joseph’s Comment: As a pagan, Ms. Paglia identifies the divine presence in, and divine order
of, creation as “cosmic forces.” Yet she rightly concludes that people must wage daily war to
deny what is obviously the proper order of nature. This is the main reason why there is so much
mental illness, depression, and drug use among homosexuals. The stress resulting from
embracing an unnatural sexual order bears down upon individuals until many break from the
strain.)

The sexual segregation of gay bars following Stonewall was bad for everyone. The men slid into
orgiastic narcissism, and the women entombed themselves in a gigantic burrow, the clogged
honeypot of lesbian feminism... Now that twenty-five years have passed, it's time to admit that
lesbian feminism has produced only the ghettoization and miniaturization of women...Women
never grow from the moment they enter the lesbian world. Hence one is deafened in bars by the
juvenile whooping and hollering of packs of lesbians greeting each other like screeching teens
arriving at a slumber party...

(Joseph’s Comment: The charge of immaturity was similarly leveled by Simon Fanshawe, a male
homosexual, who produced the documentary The Trouble With Gay Men. Fanshawe asked, "Why
do we seem hell bent on behaving like eternal teenagers?" I think there is much more truth in Mr.
Fanshawe’s statement than he realized. Homosexuals are “hell bent” in more ways than one. Not
only are they destined to experience a fiery judgment, but their lives are twisted by the very being
for whom hell was created. Immaturity is a characteristic of all who give themselves over to a
pursuit of sin. No man or woman can arrive at the fulness of the stature that belongs to Christ as
long as they are pursuing immorality.)

When women withdraw from men, as has been done on a massive scale in lesbian feminism, we
have a cultural disaster on our hands. In such a situation, men are divided from themselves and
women simply fail to mature. Lesbian feminists, for all their ideals of sisterhood and solidarity,
can treat each other with a fickleness, parasitic exploitativeness, and vicious spite that have to be
seen to be believed...

Today, when a freshman has an affair with another girl all the campus social-welfare machinery
pushes her toward declaring herself gay and accepting and 'celebrating' it. This is a serious
mistake... It is absurd to say that one, two, or more homosexual liaisons make you 'gay' - as if
lavender ink ran in your veins. Young women are often attracted to each other during a
transitional period when they are breaking away from their parents, expanding their
world-views, and developing their personalities. To identify these fruitful Sapphic idylls with a
permanent condition of homosexuality is madness, and the campus counselors who encourage
such premature conclusions should be condemned and banished. They are preying, for their own
ideological purposes, on young people at their most
vulnerable.