tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6744114065733119575.post8189103111654237868..comments2024-03-13T11:14:26.768-04:00Comments on A Radical Profeminist: The Unnaturalness of Sexuality: On White Men, Colonialism, Misogyny, and MediaUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6744114065733119575.post-82729259200721625782010-12-20T23:41:07.955-05:002010-12-20T23:41:07.955-05:00Thank you for the links. I should really read more...Thank you for the links. I should really read more to better be able to educate people against garbage named as sex, etc.<br /><br />People who argue for such mundane, repetitive sex don't realize that people can actually even lose their sexual appetite from over-indulgence, and unimaginative excercise.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6744114065733119575.post-56606501787689841502010-12-20T16:36:04.817-05:002010-12-20T16:36:04.817-05:00I am sorry for linking this here. The only reason ...I am sorry for linking this here. The only reason is that it was linked on another blog i follow and the person is dense enough not to understand that it IS porn. <br /><br />I cannot understand how they are pushing it for daytime TV as a music video! <br /><br />Calling it a music video wouldn't make it less of a porn video. I'm sorry once again. I was so appalled by this person's idiotic arguments that I didn't get much sleep last night.<br /><br />I'll do more reading, and check out your entry on kink.<br /><br />Sometimes it feels that knowledge really isn't power, because people have a deadlier weapon called ignorance.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6744114065733119575.post-72858536542133307532010-12-20T16:18:03.084-05:002010-12-20T16:18:03.084-05:00So my summary about this matter of "kink"...So my summary about this matter of "kink" has already been brilliantly expressed by Andrea Dworkin in her monumentally important book, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Intercourse-Andrea-Dworkin/dp/0684832399" rel="nofollow"><i>Intercourse</i></a> and below is a more extensive passage from that book. <br /><br />"There is no imagination in fetishlike sexual conformity; and no questions are being asked in political discourse on sex about hope and sorrow, intimacy and anguish, communion and loss. Imagination is both aggressive and delicate, a mode of cognition unmatched in its ability to reveal the hidden meanings in reality now and the likely shape of tomorrow. Imagination is not a synonym for sexual fantasy, which is only--pathetically--a programmed tape loop repeating repeating in the narcoleptic mind. Imagination finds new meanings, new forms; complex and empathetic values and acts. The person with imagination is pushed forward by it into a world of possibility and risk, a distinct world of meaning and choice; not into a nearly bare junkyard of symbols manipulated to evoke rote responses. The paring down of the vocabulary of human affect to fuck-related expletives suggests that one destroys the complexity of human response by destroying the language that communicates its existence. "Sex-negative" is the current <i>reductio ad adsurdum</i> used to dismiss or discredit ideas, particularly political critiques, that might lead to detumescence. Critiques of rape, pornography, and prostitution are "sex-negative" without qualification or examination perhaps because so many men use these ignoble routes of access and domination to get laid, and without them the number of fucks would so significantly decrease that men might nearly be chaste. There is an awful poverty here, in this time and place: of language, of words that express real states of being; of search, of questions; of meaning, of emotional empathy; of imagination. And so, we are inarticulate about sex, even though we talk about it all the time to say how much we like it--nearly as much, one might infer, as jogging. Nothing is one's own, nothing, certainly not oneself, because the imagination is atrophied, like some limb, dead and hanging useless, and the dull repetition of programmed sexual fantasy has replaced it. (Dworkin, <i>Intercourse</i>, pages 60-61)Julian Realhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02933612851144914687noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6744114065733119575.post-28374196769242296892010-12-20T16:17:12.690-05:002010-12-20T16:17:12.690-05:00Dominance, subordination, submission, terrorism, f...Dominance, subordination, submission, terrorism, fetishisation, objectification, the reduction of humans to consumable/enslavable/degradable things, is nothing new in the West and "kink" communities didn't invent it. They parrot it back, pretending it's novel and subversive when it is neither.<br /><br />What liberals traditionally and far too predictably fail to grasp is that the white male conservatives and the white male liberals are both very attached to, and profit from, a view of and experience of sex that is naughty, dirty, nasty, and degrading. They work together to produce exactly the same products for CRAP's consumers to consume as sex.<br /><br />From <a href="http://radicalprofeminist.blogspot.com/2010/11/what-does-pro-sex-mean-and-what-can-one.html" rel="nofollow">a post I did on what "pro-sex"</a> tends to mean in the West:<br /><br />[...] I welcome you to compare the depth of feeling, the breadth of insight, in each, compared to the material you read above.<br /><br />Here are the links, and this is what is being linked to:<br />"Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power", by Audre Lorde, in her book <i>Sister Outsider</i>. I know of no other single essay that so completely tears away what the status quo expects of us, to get down to the possibilities that lie beneath--for our sexual lives, which is also to say, for our lives. This essay, delivered first as a speech, if taken seriously, could radically transform how we experience sex, and what we come to understand is "good" about it.<br /><br />"Communion" by Andrea Dworkin, a chapter in her book, <i>Intercourse</i>, analysing and discussing the work of James Baldwin--a gay author of amazing depth. The analysis really gets brilliant, for me, about a page and a half into the chapter, when she begins talking about what sex is that the dominant society won't tell you about, leading into Baldwin's work, which also discusses those exact same themes usually kept hidden and secret, unspoken about by the adherents of and apologists for dominant racist, capitalist patriarchal societies' core values.<br /><br />A snippet, from each:<br /><br />As women, we have come to distrust that power which rises from our deepest and nonrational knowledge. We have been warned against it all our lives by the male world, which values this depth of feeling enough to keep women around in order to exercise it in the service of men, but which fears this same depth too much to examine the possibilities of it within themselves. -- Audre Lorde, Uses of the Erotic<br /><br />There is no imagination in fetishlike sexual conformity; and no questions are being asked in political discourse on sex about hope and sorrow, intimacy and anguish, communion and loss. [...]<br />There is an awful poverty here, in this time and place: of questions; of meaning; of emotional empathy; of imagination. And so we are inarticulate about sex, even though we talk about it all the time to say how much we like it [...]. -- Andrea Dworkin, CommunionJulian Realhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02933612851144914687noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6744114065733119575.post-89529482679555250102010-12-20T16:16:43.715-05:002010-12-20T16:16:43.715-05:00Hi Amna,
I should let you know this: I don't ...Hi Amna,<br /><br />I should let you know this: I don't welcome links here to pornography or to images of violence against women. Such images and video are very triggering to a lot of people who come here, and I wish for this to be a reasonable safe place for survivors of sexual trauma, whether it be child sexual abuse, or adult sexual abuse, including from pornography, prostitution, or bdsm.<br /><br />So that's why I won't make that URL you sent function as a link.<br /><br />No pornography will ever be linked to from this blog, and no media that exploits violence against women either.<br /><br />Jared Leto used to be someone I thought was very attractive. Given that he's taken to being involved in projects like this one, I no longer have much respect for him not do I find what he's doing with his career in the least bit attractive. I'm glad to have not known, until now, that this is what he's been up to over the last dozen years.<br /><br />I just looked up info on 30 Seconds To Mars, and the video for The Hurricane, and it is Bartholomew Cubbins, aka Jared Leto. So "bye bye" to Jared Leto for me. I hope he stops promoting violence against women in his work but I won't hold my breath.<br /><br />I feel that the material content of the video, and of virtually everything that passes for "kink" in the West, is only ever status quo sexxxuality; it is never doing anything at all that the dominant culture doesn't already do.<br /><br />It's never "different" or "unique" or "special" or "transgressive", even though practitioners of kink--het and queer--like to pretend that it is all of that. They are, quite simply--in my view--incorrect and behaving in very pro-racist/patriarchal ways.Julian Realhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02933612851144914687noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6744114065733119575.post-16861433155624153632010-12-19T23:10:13.915-05:002010-12-19T23:10:13.915-05:00"But we mustn't forget that women's &..."But we mustn't forget that women's "beauty" in a white male supremacist and heterosexist society, is deeply raced and gendered in an oppressive binary way; "what women possess" is "whiteman-made"; it belongs to men first and is then sold to women."<br /><br />That's the exact idea that was looking for words in my mind. You have put it together very well!<br /><br />Here's a new banned video of Thirty Seconds to Mars:<br /><br />http://www.vevo.com/watch/thirty-seconds-to-mars/hurricane-directors-cut/USVI31000069<br /><br />Tell me what you think about it, and the defenders of Kink, be it Het or homosexual.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6744114065733119575.post-6883672850087563562009-07-30T15:19:13.732-04:002009-07-30T15:19:13.732-04:00Its time for America to get a black lesbian presid...Its time for America to get a black lesbian president, she can then ship all those hetro white male assholes off to reserves in the middle of nowhere.<br />No hetro white male assholes means no sexism and racism. Problem solvedPBLhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15850858750697562312noreply@blogger.com