knife in sink # 1dish doer

But Kink 202 recognizes that most people often feel as if the actor's sorrow and joy are real, even if we cognitively know we're watching a play. That's why drama and theater remain compelling since the invention of language. So, when you play-pretend the heel or slaughtered lamb or naughty child or whatever, you are borrowing the story's psyche. Not totally, not forever, not because you agree, but because the performance serves us. Often it gets us off, but it also might provide catharsis, validation, closure, etc. In that way it is "real" the way tears and laughter in response to a story are real.

Critical thinking checkpoint: how real do you think "tears and laughter in response to a story" actually are? In your experience, do you get totally absorbed in stories or is that rather difficult for you? How does that compare to your peers? How might the variation in this "realness" inform someone's risks and benefits in partaking in sexual drama?

this is fucking insane. two different cases in Florida where pregnant Black women were forced into video call court proceedings, in the middle of labor, laying in their hospital beds, because their doctors chose to go after them for refusing cesarean sections.

the first woman was able to convince them to let her continue laboring unless it became medically necessary, and ultimately chose to go through with the C-section of her own accord later.

the second woman was completely denied autonomy and the C-section was performed against her will.

"Stop forcing pregnant people to have cesarean births.

Take all necessary steps to end discriminatory policies and practices based on sex, gender, pregnancy status, and race.

Discipline the doctors and hospital staff who ignored Doyley and Bennett’s concerns and coerced them to undergo a court-ordered C-section against their will.

Publicly acknowledge and provide financial relief for the harm UF Health caused to the Doyley family and Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare inflicted on the Bennett family."

hey everyone! I finally got around to setting up a site where I can publish long form theory and analysis on sexgender.

My first essay is up now, titled "I've Got A Social Contagion"

In this essay I explore the accusation that transsexuality is spreading due to a "social contagion" in six parts:

Part 1: Infecting Our Youth What this construct has to do with youth liberation

Part 2: Greedily Imbibing the Poison of Mental Infection What's the history of the "social contagion" in psychology, before it was applied to trans people?

Part 3: Weakening Our Societies and Destroying All that is Good and Noble How the metaphor of "contagion" relates to disability, eugenics, and genocide.

Part 4: Unfortunates and Injurious Influences Critique of the tendency of defenses of trans life to rely on naturalizing sexgender.

Part 5: Individual and Collective Agency Recommending some promising theory that explores how trans identity emerges through a materialist analysis