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In reply to the discussion: Nipped *that* in the bud, I hope [View all]BainsBane
(53,031 posts)Are those who deliberately choose to misunderstand and/or oppose equality, who insist on making caricatures out of feminist ideas because they are desperate to hang on to or prop up privilege. Laci Green makes videos about sex. Obviously she isn't suggesting repression. She begins the video by talking about how she wants to promote sex positivity. That should have been clear to anyone who understands the English language. Laci's point was about women acting as subjects, just as men do, rather than objects. Remember the bit about acting rather than being acted upon? Anyone who learned how to diagram sentences, which I'm guessing you are old enough to have done, should know the difference between a subject and an object. In her analogy, the object is the scissors and she is the subject. The object exists for her to do something to, just as the media presents women as objects for male pleasure rather subjects acting according to their own sexual interests.
Amazing, it is possible to have a full sex life without reducing women to objects. It's possible to enjoy sex without elevating the profits of corporate capitalism above human rights. Believe it or not, it's not being sexually uptight to oppose pedophilia or rape, or support the Civil Rights Act of 1964 as it is used to combat sexual harassment and a hostile work environment. As much as you find it difficult to comprehend, your sexuality is not intrinsically linked to capitalist commodity fetishism. Human beings did manage to procreate before Sports Illustrated and rape porn. I know that concept is shocking to some around here. They can't image a human existence before they took their instructions of what to think and feel about women from corporate media conglomerates. Nonetheless, people have been happily having sex for thousands of years.
If you still make that comment about sexual repression after watching the video, it's clear that you choose not to understand.