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By Leon Stevens

We as gay people have yet to resolve what is perhaps the most prominent paradox in our sexual politics. What appears to be indecision about what is feminine and what is masculine is really a psychological front for the more diabolical decision as to whether weakness is good and strength is evil. The fact that women have traditionally been "man"acled in the role of the weaker vessel and that males have been cast as steelsinewed warrior brood indicates that power and aggression are fundamental and positive values among post-neolithic humans.

Since the beginning of the Christian era, however, pacifism has consistently pilfered virtue from its opposite and proliferated itself via such prophets as Voltaire and (Mahatma) Gandhi. Nietzsche's genius rests in his remarkable analysis of our schizophrenic patronage of both pacifism and aaaression. He noted more specifically that Germanic lore lauded power and warfare while Christianity enthroned humility and peace. Both philosophies were equally uncompromising as the ridiculous farce of World War priests blessing weapons illustrates.

Nietzsche's demand was not for homogenity but for the cultural decision to be either

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strong or weak. The feminist notion that men in caftans represent ideal androgyny is absurd. Evolution has progressed not on good will but on conflict and domination. There is no. viability for a million pacifists as long as there exists a single aggressor. Semi-pacifism will always prevail over pacifism and aggression will always defeat semi-pacifism.

In any contemporary society, humility is merely showcased. It is never an ingredient in a social superstructure. Since aggression is the leading accessory to survival, perhaps the profounder question is whether survival is evil and transitoriness virtuous. Should feminism incorporate the strengthening of