Male urination is really a kind of accomplishment ...

[Marley23]

The strangest - maybe the most blithely ridiculous - idea I’ve heard in a long time. And it’ll be at least a week until I can piss without thinking of it.

“I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as man go pee”

[MovieMogul]

It’s certainly the most unusal reason for penis envy I can recall…

[Freudian_Slit]

@ArchiveGuy

It’s certainly the most unusal reason for penis envy I can recall…

And after that thread about the pee that pools under the seat and wets your pants, I am so not in need of a penis.

[Lemur866]

Y’know, given the other sorts of things Camille Paglia says, it’s probable she was joking and/or trolling.

[Winnipeg]

I remember that peeing up the wall of the urinals, at elementary school, higher than anyone else, was an important accomplishment at 8 years old.

[DanBlather]

I thionk the world is divided in to two camps: one has physicists, people who can actually paint draw and sculpt, and engineers that design bridges that stand up. The other camp has conceptual artists, poets who don’t rhyme, and feminist theory majors. Why the first camp doesn’t eat the second is beyond me.

[Kobal2]

@DanBlather

I thionk the world is divided in to two camps: one has physicists, people who can actually paint draw and sculpt, and engineers that design bridges that stand up. The other camp has conceptual artists, poets who don’t rhyme, and feminist theory majors. Why the first camp doesn’t eat the second is beyond me.

It’s obvious : the second camp is achieving transcendance while pissing. Scares the piss (rimshot) right out of the first.

[Elyanna]

“An arc of transcendence?”

Hee, hee, hee. Boys piss transcendence.

[Damfino]

“That’s a handy thing to take to a picnic!”

[GoodOmens]

So, does anyone actually know what she (meaning Ms. Paglia) meant by this comment? Because I’m utterly baffled.

[The_Controvert]

I think she is wrong about the second part. There’s a whole bunch of people who are into female urination and actually pay for the privilege of viewing that act.

[tdn]

@DanBlather

I thionk the world is divided in to two camps: one has physicists, people who can actually paint draw and sculpt, and engineers that design bridges that stand up. The other camp has conceptual artists, poets who don’t rhyme, and feminist theory majors. Why the first camp doesn’t eat the second is beyond me.

Too bitter?

[TV_time]

@Kobal2

It’s obvious : the second camp is achieving transcendance while pissing. Scares the piss (rimshot) right out of the first.

Are you saying they’re yellow?

[hroark2112]

She’s just jealous she can’t write her name in the snow.

I was always glad I didn’t have an “i” in my name to dot!!

[kelly5078]

Well, given the nature of the prostate, sometimes it really is an accomplishment.

[lieu]

@hroark2112

She’s just jealous she can’t write her name in the snow.

I was always glad I didn’t have an “i” in my name to dot!!

Really? My name’s not followed with three sets of ellipsis but in the snow that’s the way it usually works out.

[Musicat]

Henh, henh. It says “member” below Indian’s name. Henh, Henh.

[rowrrbazzle]

No sillier than some things academics have written, such as this gem about Beethoven’s Ninth symphony from feminist musicologist Susan McClary of the University of Minnesota in Getting Down off the Beanstalk, 1987.

The point of recapitulation in the first movement of the Ninth is one of the most horrifying moments in music, as the carefully prepared cadence is frustrated, damming up energy which finally explodes in the throttling murderous rage of a rapist incapable of attaining release.

She also claimed to find themes of male masturbation in Mahler and Richard Strauss.

And not as silly as this about Governor Palin from Wendy Doniger http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/panelists/wendy_doniger/2008/09/all_beliefs_welcome_unless_the.html

Her greatest hypocrisy is in her pretense that she is a woman.

[rowrrbazzle]

And no sillier than this incident recounted by Paglia Gifts of Speech - Camille Paglia

There was a Revlon ad of a woman in a blue pool of water, and she was beautifully made up, and there was obviously a reflector being used to shine the sunlight especially intensely on her face. This was a beautiful ad. And Diana Fuss was going, “Decapitation–mutilation.”

Then there was a beautiful picture from Harper’s Bazaar, I think, of a black woman wearing a crimson turtleneck. But instead of the collar turned over, you know, it was up like this, around the chin. It was very beautiful. It was like a flower. And she was wearing aviator glasses that I recognized, from the 1930s! Now Diana Fuss said, “She’s blinded.” I would have said, “She has mystic vision.” Anyway, with the turtleneck, what do you think? “Strangulation, bondage!” It went on like this, picture after picture after picture.

[emmaliminal]

Yeah, Camile Paglia has made a career of pissing off academic feminists.

I have this poem framed and hung over the toilet superimposed over a nice sketch of sailors next to the Brewer Memorial Fountain in Boston.

Here’s a particularly relevant stanza:

@Garrison Keillor

Of course for men it’s much more grand.
Women sit or squat; we stand,
and hold the fellow in our hand,
and proudly watch the mighty arc,
adjust the range and make our mark
on stones or post for rival men
to smell and not come back again.