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\u003Cbr>Contest,Sexuality and Consciousness,  \u003Cbr>by Walter J.Ong,S.J.  \u003Cbr>(Cornell University Press,$14.95)  \u003Cbr>Reviewed by LAURENCE SMITH,a  \u003Cbr>former editor of The Critic.  \u003Cbr>I recall a picnic a few years ago.The  \u003Cbr>food was nearly prepared when a foot-  \u003Cbr>ball being passed between my children  \u003Cbr>and me took a bad hop and bounced  \u003Cbr>squarely against the back of my wife's  \u003Cbr>head,the impact catapulting one of her  \u003Cbr>contact lenses into the thick,knee-deep  \u003Cbr>weedy undergrowth of the forest pre-  \u003Cbr>serve.While the children screamed at  \u003Cbr>each other in fear,and my wife at me  \u003Cbr>in anger,I trudged into the weeds,  \u003Cbr>dropped to my knees and with all the  \u003Cbr>accumulated male heroic urgings of the  \u003Cbr>species began the quixotic,impossible  \u003Cbr>search.  \u003Cbr>Except that,incredibly,I found it:a  \u003Cbr>transparent speck in a galaxy of green.  \u003Cbr>With ego quivering in exaltation,I  \u003Cbr>carefully gathered the lens between  \u003Cbr>thumb and finger and with eucharistic  \u003Cbr>euphoria elevated it toward my wife's  \u003Cbr>one unblurred,enraged eye.To which  \u003Cbr>that cum laude graduate,diviner of   | truth for our children and full-colonel  \u003Cbr>in the war between the sexes,dismissed  \u003Cbr>in five words both my achievement and  \u003Cbr>the two thousand year evolution of  \u003Cbr>Aristotelian logic:“What if it isn't  \u003Cbr>mine?\"she hissed.  \u003Cbr>We were divorced shortly thereafter.  \u003Cbr>Fighting for Life is a scholarly work  \u003Cbr>that remains academically elevated  \u003Cbr>above today's commonplace redistri-  \u003Cbr>bution of pots and pans.Yet,through  \u003Cbr>his examination of the role of contest  \u003Cbr>in the evolution of human conscious-  \u003Cbr>ness,Professor Ong brings into clearer  \u003Cbr>focus the divisions and discord that  \u003Cbr>haunt the male-female dialectic today.  \u003Cbr>The most significant differences be-  \u003Cbr>tween the sexes are linked to competi-  \u003Cbr>tiveness,suggests Father Ong,and to  \u003Cbr>this argument he brings compelling in-  \u003Cbr>sights that are valuable to sight-im-  \u003Cbr>paired ladies and absurd Don Quixotes  \u003Cbr>everywhere.  \u003Cbr>Applying such branches of knowl-  \u003Cbr>edge as anthropology,sociology,  \u003Cbr>biology,linguistics,psychology,plus  \u003Cbr>literary,intellectual and educational  \u003Cbr>history—in effect,every field short of  \u003Cbr>podiatry—Father Ong traces by\"in-  \u003Cbr>timate connections”the progression of  \u003Cbr>contest through organic evolution and  \u003Cbr>into the intellectual development of the   | human species.In fact,he contends  \u003Cbr>that only through“adversativeness,”  \u003Cbr>or things in conflict,do we have the  \u003Cbr>means by which to understand our own  \u003Cbr>existence.  \u003Cbr>Throughout the animal world,ad-  \u003Cbr>versativeness is more pronounced in  \u003Cbr>males.Moreover,writes Professor  \u003Cbr>Ong,\"male combativeness is more  \u003Cbr>marked among vertebrates than in-  \u003Cbr>vertebrates;it reaches its higher pitches  \u003Cbr>higher in the evolutionary scale.\"This  \u003Cbr>would imply that male aggressiveness is  \u003Cbr>\"an advanced rather than primitive  \u003Cbr>form of behavior.\"But this male be-  \u003Cbr>havior,as it is linked to evolutionary  \u003Cbr>selection,in a sense indicates male in-  \u003Cbr>feriority.Males are expendable,not as  \u003Cbr>necessary as the female in the continua-  \u003Cbr>tion of the species,and therefore  \u003Cbr>generally assume the higher risk roles  \u003Cbr>of hunter,fighter and promiscuous  \u003Cbr>progenitor.  \u003Cbr>In the human species,the adversa-  \u003Cbr>tive structures of biological evolution  \u003Cbr>spill over into the realm of conscious-  \u003Cbr>ness,whereby the human achieves his  \u003Cbr>unique reflectiveness,his ability to  \u003Cbr>speak of self as \"I.\"And while males  \u003Cbr>continue to display a higher adversa-  \u003Cbr>tive posture,Father Ong also sees the  \u003Cbr>male as living from conception in a   |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n\n\n| NOT since the demolition of Pauline  \u003Cbr>Kael by Renata Adler in New York  \u003Cbr>Review of Books have I seen such a  \u003Cbr>hatchet job as Francine Du Plessix  \u003Cb","cbCaikNJrLMKnFyh","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaikNJrLMKnFyh","pdf",2552796,"English","# Fighting for Life: Contest, Sexuality and Consciousness - Review\n## Ong’s thesis on contest and consciousness\n## Adversativeness and evolutionary implications\n## Relevance to male-female dialectic","[{\"question\":\"What central idea does the review attribute to Father Ong in Fighting for Life?\",\"answer\":\"The review says Ong argues that contest and adversativeness—things in conflict—are key to understanding human existence and the development of consciousness.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the review connect sex 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