To show how bizarre we have now become as a species I read today a report in the Economist On-Line,written by someone anonymously quoted by the name of 'S.P.' and filed in from Paris at 10.23 a.m. today of how Dominique Strauss Kahn had,on the controversial day in question, and I paraphrase the Economist, a sexual encounter before having a (normal) lunch with his daughter and then as a follow-on from lunch intending to leave New York by plane for work in Europe.
What a crime!
Of course the writer of the article in the Ecomomist attributes the comments to someone else - and who else other than Sylvie Kauffman, the Editor of 'Le Monde',as reported to have told the New York Times!
So The Economist is now happy to report, as fact, third hand information sexed up to appear as if it is,in relation to lunch with his daughter then blast off, some inappropriate or an unnatural act outside the comprehension of human sexual behaviour or understanding and make it appear by implication that Mr Strauss Kahn is some sort of abnormal hetrosexual beyond the pale of all current normal sexually,racially and politically correct comprehension.
http://www.economist.com/blogs/newsbook/2011/08/dominique-strauss-kahn
I wonder if the writer of this Economist story was over the age of 8 - or indeed if he/she gave the story to some other kindergarten relative to write up because he/she was too busy doing something else that day?
Are we just in denial of our sexual behaviour or have we,as a society become so insanely politically and sexually correct that we simply can no longer look ourselves in the mirror when it comes to understanding our own sexuality and human behaviour?
Or is it that when we (or at least some of us) look at ourselves what we see is so frightening, so fascinating and so erotically compelling that, with equal disgust and fascination, we want to reach through the looking glass and pull the exotic side of our animal nature from the world beyond-for just one moment - to experience what the politically and sexually correct prisons we have built for ourselves will not permit us to engage in, but again, looking over our shoulders and coming to our outraged moral senses, recoil in horror at the last moment of climax and write such trashy denial stories as the one I have just read in the Economist to justify, satisfy and sanctify our own totally confused, totally disorientated and dysfunctional sexual alter egos.
The article then goes on to make, what I think is a wholly unjustifiable
remark (not again coming direct from the Economist, of course, but again second or third hand reports) quoting faceless and nameless African-American groups campaigning against sexual and domestic violence about how the word of a powerful white man is being pitted against this poor innocent black woman and how the failure to prosecute this case is racially motivated.
At least the white editor of Le Monde is named but,as Blacks,why bother to name these African-American groups-they just remain out of sight and out of recognition to the French or french-based writer of this story for the Economist-benefitting as it will from the spoils of the racial dust it has vicariously kicked up.
The article to me reflects more about the French attitudes to race and disgust at racial intercourse and sexual relations between,specifically, an older White man and a younger Black African woman and the rather bizarre French and (perhaps Anglo-Saxon) societal complexes to sexuality and race than they do about sexual activities which Mr Strauss Kahn (or Señor Berlusconi for that matter)as a normal,healthy highly active hetrosexual might do - with no particular qualms about the race religion nor the sex of his partner.
This article therefore in my opinion is not about the guilt or innocence of Dominique Strauss Kahn nor indeed about his future for which the Economist appears to be shedding crocodile tears, but puts on trial and in focus more the bizarre French attitudes and psychological complexes to sex,race,power,age,sexuality and political correctness.
There may be more to the story but I read it as infantile,purile and more appropriate for a pre-adolescent smutty and titillating magazine rumouring and scaremongering about age, sex, race power and sexual political correctness rather than a serious factual article,the latter of which I would have expected to read from the pages of the Economist in an earlier era.
Oh how the mighty have fallen together!
Is nothing sacred anymore in this world!
Patrick Emek B.A. (Hons) Psych
Europe
August 23rd 2011