Question of the day:
Why is it ok to judge someone for their political choices, but wrong to judge them for their bodily choices?
Is the body somehow an inviolate sphere that doesn't reflect a person's beliefs? Do political decisions, conversely, always stem directly from a person's inner being? Or is it just the opposite: are political beliefs imagined to be inherently communal, separable from the person articulating them, and thus evaluable?--and is the body then "too personal"? What *are* we actually judging when we applaud or revile a particular political position, a particular body?
Is the body somehow an inviolate sphere that doesn't reflect a person's beliefs? Do political decisions, conversely, always stem directly from a person's inner being? Or is it just the opposite: are political beliefs imagined to be inherently communal, separable from the person articulating them, and thus evaluable?--and is the body then "too personal"? What *are* we actually judging when we applaud or revile a particular political position, a particular body?