HEAVY HITTER

I love how potato in French is pomme de terre, which pretty much means “earth apple.”

DEM SRAMBLANG TRYNA BE HI KKV C’MOSHIROH Y KA WA II SOU NE….. 

MAIZE JE VDRAI TKSAN BATS. NANZKEN.

Shi kor maik~ Asob wid shi~ Jejeje

I do find it very interesting always the ways in which violence in all forms is considered much more acceptable than positive, consensual sexual expression or titillation. I’m not entirely sure it is as simple as a desensitization to violence; I tend to assume, instead, that it has much more to do with a very Western cultural attitude of shame towards sex, especially sex of a “deviant” nature. It is disturbing, either way, on multiple levels: one may be responsible for deaths and misdeeds, but retain one’s “innocence,” while a sexual encounter or even the awareness that sexual encounters occur will “ruin” this “innocence.”  What precisely is the definition of “innocence,” under these conditions? Optimism? An appreciation for human life? A belief in the power of emotions, and of relationships? In what ways are these ideas negated by natural human desire? And, perhaps, the Western cultural oddity of deep revulsion or embarrassment regarding seeing one’s male friends’ bodies, or knowing that they are behaving sexually in general, and the ways in which that oddity is so often projected onto all people, no matter their background or life experience. What drives the panic towards these situations, and the nervous laughter when such situations are avoided?