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A dispatch from the porn industry's annual awards ceremony entertainingly and comically explains the modern porn ethos: bravado, shamelessness, and (believe it or not) increasing degradation of and violence toward women.
(Whereas Gear, which retains certain elements of the old men's mag ethos, and the old hostility--and not incidentally runs somewhat longer articles--does worry about and argue with feminism, as in its recent piece on sexual repression in the military, in which it is argued, after a fashion, that 1) we can't suppress male soldiers' urge to rape and harass women without suppressing the urge to kill that's the military's reason for being, 2) sexual harassment crusades interfere with women's equality, 3) women soldiers aren't men's equals anyway, and 4) why do we need women in the military in the first place?)
Is it increasingly a choice between back-to-basics traditionalism in the test-conscious public school system and a considerably more progressive, or "constructivist," ethos in private schools?
But in an era when a politician's ability to communicate trumps anything else and the balance of Republican power has shifted west, the preppy, Anglican ethos that defined the old man is suspect.
But one cannot argue about which ethos is more conducive to advancement in the wider world.