Us men don't like this civilisation one bit

So Bob Ellis, retired labor speechwriter, has a bee in his bonnet (bat in his belfry?) about how left wing politicians are always being destroyed by sex scandals, and it seems so unfair that only feminism can explain it. Idiot.  A longer critique by John Birmingham here.

He is in company with Scott Adams, who drew fire for his 'Pegs and Holes' blog post about how men can't get no satisfaction because of society as constituted, and that this makes them unhappy. In fairness, Scott is making the same observation that Freud made in 'Civilisation and it's Discontents', and pushing back (as Freud pushed back) against 'unrealistic' expectations gaining moral force. If he had read Freud, or thought about it at all, he might have realised that there is more to being a satisfied man than having a satisfied penis.

The problem for both these doofuses (doofii?) is that these expectations became expectations because of the moral force, not the reverse. The problem is not feminism, it is of creating and sustaining a just society. Keeping one's pants on is the creation of, and a sustaining of, the kind of trust that can enable anxiety-free sex. Don't let anyone say it can't be done by any man; but don't think creation of something this good will be easy.

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