Shades of Hysteria

its funny when people act like every "expression of sexuality" challenges, like, the order of things or the hegemony or the right wing or whatever. the right isnt unequivocally opposed to "expressions of sexuality", are you crazy... they use expressions of hetero male sexuality as a political tool (to remind women of their place!) and fly into a frothy collective rage when this is challenged,see "gamergate"..etc...., you may be thinking Oh well when people on the left talk about expressions of sexuality theyre using it as a shorthand for expressions of Oppressed sexuality, female sexuality queer sexuality wateva which obviously The Right does not like.....but if that was originally what we were talking about, somewhere along the line we got confused because now people act like the pornography that your average joe (who is sexually a fascist) jerks it to is a beacon of political light,... the right has a sexuality and expresses it too and its not a footnote or a minor node its actually a major animating/sustaining force, but nobody gets me

It's often the most male-catered to and even misogynistic media that feature some of the deepest and borderline homoerotic relationships between men. But that is to be expected. People think that patriarchy enabling homoaffectionate relationships between men is a bug, but it's actually a feature. True love can only come from a place of respect, and men often don't respect nor esteem women. They don't see women as capable of intellect, or strength, or imagination or even humanity. Those attributes are reserved to men. Which is why men's true love is often reserved for other men while women are just props to them. That's why it's easier for a lot of male writers to create stories about supposedly heterosexual male characters having the most world-shattering (accidentally romantic) bonds with other men, but not with women that they're canonically attracted to. It's because they can't fathom their male protagonist being so deeply affected by a woman's character, since women are to be lusted for and kept as props for their little domestic fantasies but never truly respected or admired as individuals. The ancient greeks were more honest about this stuff because they understood that patriarchy and male/male affection went hand in hand.