Nothing Mat(t)ers: A Feminist Critique of Postmodernism

70 NOTHING MAT(T)ERS
(1983, p. 958). The god on the cross is a curse on life, a signpost to seek redemption
from life; Dionysus cut to pieces is a promise of life: he will be eternally reborn and
return again from destruction (1978, p. 543). But even as Christ and Dionysus merge
in Nietzsche’s final metaphors, so is the covenant re-established. Nietzsche
denounces Spinoza’s spinning of a metaphysical God, because he wants Superman
to spin himself, his own work of art. Nietzsche must celebrate both sex and death,
since he is antithetical to the ascetic religions which denied sex in order to deny
death. But he celebrates the rebirth of masculine sex and death. He dresses as a
woman to fool the devouring abyss, to pass. Yet to truly embrace his fate, surely he
must face the abyss as a man and not as a God And in order to become anti-sexist,
which of course was never Nietzsche’s goal, his postmodern disciples must stop
thinking of him and themselves as gods.