Gulfstream: 14 May 2003

Two parts to this. (1) A nice riff on Maxim, FHM, etc.: “Have you noticed that male chauvinism is making a comeback?” (2) The observation that one particular threat to society—“misogynistic rap culture”— comes not from the progressive’s traditional enemies of the rich, powerful and wellborn, but from the “urban lower class”—and that they haven’t yet figured out how to deal with this. “How do you react when people further down the social pecking order—whether they are disenfranchised whites or underclass urban minorities—are creating a culture you find degrading? How do you criticize that culture without seeming square, elitist, or even racist?”