A schadenfreudal orgasm.

[cruelbitch]

Delightful.

Author's Note: This lengthy diatribe was inspired by a sf-drama post -- a forum I do not attend, nor do I desire becoming invested in -- which elicited a severe twitch of irritation within me. I, very reluctantly, said nothing. After all, why would I, somebody who devotes massive amounts of their time into Dare-I-Say-PC research, ever want to

Comments

[neverbeeneasy]

"... What's interesting is that I can interpret this both ways. Upon watching a documentary about The History of Sex (which was, essentially: "Here's a List of All the Impossibly Destructive Abuses We've Inflicted Upon The Female Species and Masqueraded it as the Natural Evolution of Lust; How Marquis de Sade Was Sinisterly Awesome to Sexologists"), I noticed that beneath the pile of bizarre devices, contraptions, mandates, and clinical phrasing of the carnal actions, that we've, presently, really just given historical practices a different name.

...I don't believe these dilemmas within the heteronormative collective are rooted in hatred of sex, but rather rooted in associated contempt with the female body"

Agreed, 100%. The sex men have (unless it is homosexual sex, which is threatening to the order of trying to control women through sex, and shows the innate entwining of power and sex that seems to come with masculinity) had throughout history has gone through completely different 'regulations' than women.

I do not know if I've discussed this with you, but people as a society, especially Western society, seem to view the human experience as One Big Brain. They basically think that what has happened in the past is in the past, it is unevolved and we have learned from it naturally. What, exactly, is 'we'? Has every person really just learned, through collective human experience, that it's unfavorable to do these things to women, or to another 'race', or to those of deviant sexuality, etc.? It's as if they think that humanity shares this giant brain, and it learns from every experience it has had in the past. Yet, we somehow have the same issues consistently popping up ubiquitously all over the world, with slightly different names to the issues and slightly different definitions, and perhaps some tweaking here or there.

This is practically the counterpart to the phenomena of people looking at history with a rosy, natural, essentialist view and any bad outlook on it is 'revisionist and PC', and talking about 'upholding traditions' for some bullshit reason or another, as if Humanity is to be Parented and it's constantly going through a rebellious adolescent phase and must return to its pure, childhood roots.

When looking at the history of sex, and looking at how the sexual revolution evolved within the frameworks of a patriarchal and unequal society and within the goal of making the Female Body more 'free', more sexual, is the way to achieve real liberation ... it's just obvious that the same things seem to occur constantly ( despite what people decry in our 'femininized society' ), and they may take different shapes or forms but are never truly knocked down, never truly defeated. Legalities are switched, which is good and all. It's good that it's illegal to kill a woman for this and that, it's good that you can't toss someone in jail for being gay in some parts of the world, it's good that integration exists. A lot of change doesn't come from it because people are afraid of radicals, and there is a great tool [the media] that can be used to silence them or make people afraid to be associated with them.

Most people deemed 'radicals' really don't have that many crazy beliefs, and should not be pitted with people who condemn those of different lifestyle to death, or even crueler, eternal suffering after you've died.