A Must Read

It isn't everyday we make reference to the work of Camille Paglia, the last time she appeared in COTTonLINE was in 2010. Today we draw your attention to her excellent recent column for Time Magazine.

Paglia's topic is the essential, but often denigrated, role of men in today's society. She writes:

Men are absolutely indispensable right now, invisible as it is to most feminists, who seem blind to the infrastructure that makes their own work lives possible. It is overwhelmingly men who do the dirty, dangerous work of building roads, pouring concrete, laying bricks, tarring roofs, hanging electric wires, excavating natural gas and sewage lines, cutting and clearing trees, and bulldozing the landscape for housing developments.

The modern economy, with its vast production and distribution network, is a male epic, in which women have found a productive role—but women were not its author.

It makes a nice change for men to be appreciated in the media.