Re: (Privelege Was Re: Re: Maoist cleanup drive hits
On Jan 8, 2007, at 12:12 PM, Jim Straub wrote:
My own experience is that leftists hate on kinky BDSM sex ALL the
time, maybe even more than honkie america. I’ve gotten in so many
arguments about this with radicals over the years. It’s so
strange. Why do so many leftos have mean things to say about
BDSM? Can someone on this list make whatever argument there is to
make, about BDSM being bad or fundamentally oppressive or
whatever? I just can’t imagine what intellectual content there
could be to any such assertion.
It’s obvious, no? BDSM is violent and hierarchical. Even worse, it
eroticizes violence and hierarchy, even if in a scripted, theatrical
fashion. We’re supposed to be gentle and egalitarian in our desires;
anything else is unauthorized and deeply suspect. Humans shouldn’t
discharge their aggressive urges through play; we shouldn’t have them
at all.
Doug