the idea of cultural appropriation is
absolutely nonsense so that's that
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there's no there's no difference between
cultural appropriation and learning from
one another if they're the same thing
now that doesn't mean I can't that
doesn't mean that there's no theft
between people there is you know and it
doesn't mean that just because you
encounter someone else's ideas you have
an immediate right to those ideas as if
they were your own but the idea that
manifesting in your own behavior some
element of another culture the idea that
that's somehow immoral is insane it's
actually one of the basis of peace you
know one of the things that the various
groups of human beings that exist have
to offer each other is the tremendous
value of their culture you know it's
been really interesting me to me for
example to watch the response of all of
everyone but for this argument to you
for young Caucasian males to hip-hop you
know there's an aggressiveness about
hip-hop that's really attractive to
young Caucasian males and there's
something absurd about about that the
the spectacle of the young Caucasian
males taking on the persona of
inner-city black gang members you know
it but but I'm sympathetic to it because
there's an aggressiveness to that to
that art form that's a necessary
corrective to the insistence that the
highest moral virtue for a modern man is
harmlessness which is absurd
women don't even like harmless men they
hate them they like that
blow them apart
you know what what women want are
dangerous men who are civilized and they
want to help civilize them
that's Beauty and the Beast so you know
I'll tell you a funny story because only
engineers could have come up with this
because they are the only ones that have
the unparalleled blindness to social
convention that would allow them to
discover it so the Google engineers I
like engineers by the way because
they're very straightforward the Google
engineers wrote a book a while back
called a billion wicked thoughts which
was a study of internet searches
billions of them literally and they were
looking a lot at pornography use and
well there's lots of known about male
pornography use partly and it's easy to
understand
I mean males are you know pretty
visually oriented and what attracts them
to pornography is fairly straightforward
you can tell that if you look at
graffiti in a men's washroom you know
it's like two circles in a triangle and
the men who absolutely transfixed by it
so for women the story is more complex
they use pornography too but it tends to
be literary because women tend to like
words more than they like visual stimuli
so the Google guys tried to track down
the archetypal structure of they didn't
use those words of female pornography
use and so some of you know how many of
you know what a Harlequin romance is
okay good so those are archetypal
stories right that's the taming of the
wild man essentially by the by the
desirable and virginal woman and if you
think women don't want that then you
better bloody well come up with an
explanation for Fifty Shades of Grey
right which is the most the most rapid
selling novel in human history and
emerged at exactly the same time that
all of this noise about the lack of the
absence of gender roles is being
produced you know on mas it's like
perfect female fantasy it's exactly
architect Li correct it's Beauty and the
Beast so what the go-go guys showed was
the structure of Beauty and the Beast
although they didn't use that as a
referent that the female pornographic
fantasy was wild guy you know somewhat
careless about the wants and desires of
others attractive to everyone therefore
high-status tamed by the magic of a
single woman and brought into a
relationship with her okay so but here's
the comical part this just made me laugh
man it was like what were the five
categories of most desirable male entity
used most broadly and female pornography
oh it's so embarrassing women you have
to cover your head while I say viscous
vampire were wolf billionaire surgeon
and pirate