I spent a whole day trying to convince people online (with varying degrees of success) that homophobia, misogyny and warfare are all tied up together. And here I see Bush managed to do the same thing, more effectively, in exactly seven words. Damn.
“Speaking of George Bush, with whom Sharon developed a very close relationship, Uri Dan recalls that Sharon’s delicacy made him reluctant to repeat what the president had told him when they discussed Osama bin Laden. Finally he relented. And here is what the leader of the Western world, valiant warrior in the battle of cultures, promised to do to bin Laden if he caught him: “I will screw him in the ass!”
What an odd twist it would be if people didn’t actually secretly all see male penetration of females as domination/superiority, eh?
I tried flipping Bush’s words so they’d be from a fierce female perspective, but it just doesn’t feel the same to me, somehow. What do you think, does this sound threatening? “I will let him screw me in the ass!”
Maybe if I say it while brandishing a scabbard?
Hat tip to De Clarke for a heads-up on this companion piece about the making of military males, and how it relates to patriarchy’s hatred of the body.
Posted by stan in Analysis