Spergilkál, klám og Kant

Athyglisverð grein hérna (sem ég er reyndar ekki búin að lesa alveg til enda) um hvernig viðhorf til matar og kynlífs hafa eiginlega snúist alveg við á undanförnum áratugum. Höfundurinn setur upp dæmi um tvær konur (Betty, þrítug 1958) og Jennifer (þrítug í dag) og ber saman viðhorf þeirra til matar og kynlífs (sjá kaflann Broccoli, pornography and Kant):

,,... what the imaginary examples of Betty and Jennifer have established is this: Their personal moral relationships toward food and toward sex are just about perfectly reversed. Betty does care about nutrition and food, but it doesn’t occur to her to extend her opinions to a moral judgment — i.e., to believe that other people ought to do as she does in the matter of food, and that they are wrong if they don’t. In fact, she thinks such an extension would be wrong in a different way; it would be impolite, needlessly judgmental, simply not done. Jennifer, similarly, does care to some limited degree about what other people do about sex; but it seldom occurs to her to extend her opinions to a moral judgment. In fact, she thinks such an extension would be wrong in a different way — because it would be impolite, needlessly judgmental, simply not done.

On the other hand, Jennifer is genuinely certain that her opinions about food are not only nutritionally correct, but also, in some deep, meaningful sense, morally correct — i.e., she feels that others ought to do something like what she does. And Betty, on the other hand, feels exactly the same way about what she calls sexual morality."

Athyglisvert. Ekki síst fyrir mig sem starfsmann lífsleiknideildar forlagsins, þar sem matreiðslu- og kynlífsbækur eru einmitt aðalmáli ...