Poor Lionel or poor me.
Poor Lionel in that for some reasons or others just couldn't come around to making a point clear to all. Unless this was a "nudge, nudge, wink, wink, say no more" moment where all in attendance sort of knew what he was referring to without him actually referring to it. Mommy worship and political (in)correctness can not be that bad where a noted scholar just can not come out and say things as they fucking are. Lionel took 8 minutes to say nearly next to nothing about...what was the topic again? 8 minutes of trying to get around to some point which wasn't clear to begin with nor even made.
Or poor me. For not being one squared of intelligence of type to know what he was talking about. But I know what he is referring to. He's concerned about coming out and saying that chicks are whores for taking money from men who wish to normally engage in heterosexual intercourse. And that he just can not directly say so in front of an audience where the chick persons in attendance may be so childishly self absorbed and conceited that they wouldn't take kindly to hear something plainly stated as so true and obvious.
If that's the case - go to hell conceit. We all know that nothing would stop you from disparaging men for things nowhere near as true.