David Adesnik of Oxblog, blogging live from the "Daily Show":
"11:12 PM: Stephen Colbert presents 'This Week in God'. Says Catholicism turns highs school girls into either virgins or whores. OxBlog's anecdotal experience confirms this fact."
Didn't know anyone, even a Catholic school girl, could be turned into a virgin. This must just be the result of Adesnik typing quickly.
Then again, from [the Daily Show's] Jon Stewart's commencement address at William and Mary:
"In 1981 I lost my virginity, only to gain it back again on appeal in 1983."
Wednesday, August 11, 2004
Virginity regained
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The best combination is 'no fun at all' AND 'completely wild'.
It has something to do with virgin/whore binarisms, confession, guilt, ecstasy & bipolarity.
At least in my experience.
Dylan,
Thanks for the correct quote.
Spencer,
Sounds like you've got a healthy take on women, relationships, etc.
If I give you her email address....
...would you tell my mother that?
Does your mother have an understanding of sarcasm?
It's the only reason she survived me, I think.
A sense of irony helps, too.
Yes, irony and sarcasm. Good ways to avoid sincerity.
I mean irony in a formalist sense -- not in the camp/kitsch/I love the Brady Bunch sense.
You know, something that embodies its opposite. Negative capability. Etc. (I'm a fan of contradiction as my first post illustrates.)
My mother is a pillar of high-formalist irony. She & Bakhtin.
Catholicism is like a souped up version of single sex school. Consequently the view espoused by the corrected quote is dead on.
If I hadn't been scarred by 9 (!) years in girls' school, I probably wouldn't be blogging right now.
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