8. There were some odd gender-norming issues undergirding the Vidal/Buckley encounter.
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@notjessewalker Vidal got under Buckley's nerve by constantly hinting (arguably in homophobic ways) that Buckley was gay.1 reply 1 retweet 6 likes -
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9. One way to think about Buckley/Vidal debate was it was a competition to prove who was most traditionally masculine. Buckley lost.
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10. Murray Kempton, Buckley's friend, very insightful on hidden gender dimensions of debate.
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11. Kempton: "Buckley has taken as his the masculine side of the argument and Vidal is as in the feminine." Kempton thought this wrong.
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12. Kempton perceptively noted that in personality Buckley was more stereotypically feminine: sensitive, sentimental, "womanly"
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13. Conversely, according to Kempton, Vidal was more stereotypically masculine: "detached, tough, cold and calculating in battle."
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14. Kempton: Vidal controlled the argument by "the incitement of an excess of someone else's false masculinity."
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15. What Kempton said about Vidal versus Buckley also applies to Vidal versus Mailer. Vidal knew how to get under skin of opponents.
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16. What Vidal realized is that violence is failure. Buckley threatened to punch out Vidal & lost. Mailer did head-butt Vidal and lost.
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17. Vidal after being physically attacked by Mailer. "Once again, words fail Norman Mailer."
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18. In sum, Gore Vidal was much more of man than William F. Buckley. This indisputable fact reflects badly on Vidal.
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19. In other ways, Buckley and Vidal reflect the narcissism of small differences: elite, pseudo-aristos, isolationist & Old Right origins.
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