The discourse of black resistance has always equated freedom with manhood, the economic and material domination of black men with ...castration, emasculation. Accepting these sexual metaphors forged a bond between oppressed black men and their white male oppressors. They shared the patriarchal belief that revolutionary struggle was really about the erect phallus, the ability of men to establish political dominance that could correspond to sexual dominance.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Monasticism, as it existed in Spain and still exists in Tibet, is a wasting disease of civilization. It puts a stop to life. Quite... simply, it depopulates. Claustration is castration. It has been the scourge of Europe. Add to this the violence so often inflicted on the conscience, the enforced vocations ... the closed mouths and minds, so much intelligence condemned to the imprisonment of vows for life, the burial of living souls. No matter who you are, the thought of so much suffering and degradation must cause you to shudder at the sight of a veil or cassock, those two shrouds of human invention.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Most observers of the French Revolution, especially the clever and noble ones, have explained it as a life-threatening and contagi...ous illness. They have remained standing with the symptoms and have interpreted these in manifold and contrary ways. Some have regarded it as a merely local ill. The most ingenious opponents have pressed for castration. They well noticed that this alleged illness is nothing other than the crisis of beginning puberty.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Without poetry, religion becomes obscure, false, and malignant; without philosophy, licentious in all wantonness, and lascivious t...o the point of self-castration.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »