catch-22 ?
(A quote from Joseph Campbell on sexual segregation in South Asia:)
Consequence of the partition of the sexes: The chance of personal adventure, determined by the personality of a representative of the opposite world and energized by an unpredicted interplay of the two fundamental human attitudes, is simply not permitted to exist. The results are numerous, among them being a sort of proto-homosexuality, a lack of life-inventiveness, and a satisfaction with clichés.
--Joseph Campbell, Baksheesh and Brahman: Indian journal, 1954-1955 (New York: HarperCollins, 1995).
Though my reasons to advocate against sexual segregation are purely self-serving and probably non-issues to the outside world, if I were to try to reason why noone from the subject population seem to have paid any attention to this piece of work or why the status quo will always be maintained within this population - the stated consequences of the said vice speak for themselves.
Consequence of the partition of the sexes: The chance of personal adventure, determined by the personality of a representative of the opposite world and energized by an unpredicted interplay of the two fundamental human attitudes, is simply not permitted to exist. The results are numerous, among them being a sort of proto-homosexuality, a lack of life-inventiveness, and a satisfaction with clichés.
--Joseph Campbell, Baksheesh and Brahman: Indian journal, 1954-1955 (New York: HarperCollins, 1995).
Though my reasons to advocate against sexual segregation are purely self-serving and probably non-issues to the outside world, if I were to try to reason why noone from the subject population seem to have paid any attention to this piece of work or why the status quo will always be maintained within this population - the stated consequences of the said vice speak for themselves.
posted by sudha at 8:05 PM
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