Nietzsche's Pregnancy & Toy Whips

Dennis R Redmond dredmond at OREGON.UOREGON.EDU
Fri Nov 26 23:57:21 PST 1999


On Fri, 26 Nov 1999, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:


> sexism. Since sexist men cannot fully admit that they have become
> themselves victims of sexism, they seek acceptance either as little boys
> whose "play" must be indulged by loving women or as dictators whose whips
> are worshipped by women. Or perhaps little dictators with toy whips.

I always thought Nietzsche's thing was that he wanted to be whipped by packs of wild women, dressed in suitably Venusian furs. They politely declined, thus his childish rage.


> Zarathustra unwittingly betrays the nature of men's "little truth": it's
> infantile.

Or, as Adorno would put it, Der Uebermensch ist das weiblich Untere (the Overman is the womanly Under).

-- Dennis



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