started reading harrow the ninth. here's a collage

This puritanical shit is, in addition to the previous commentary, also an extension of white supremacy and its beliefs that The (cis-het christofascist white) Man is the pinnacle of all existence and women, children, People of Color, and the Neither Cis Nor Het all exist as his servants. Why is being a prude part of this?

A child who cannot learn about sex cannot tell when The Man abuses them.

A woman who cannot learn about sex can only assume that every The Man is the same as hers, and there's no one better at sex, has a better-for-her penis, nor is a more caring lover out there, so there's no use in looking or waiting for him. She cannot learn what rape is, and that it is a crime. She cannot learn what abortion is, and take back power over her own body.

A queer person who cannot learn about sex will never find romantic or sexual contentment or fulfillment that The Man (and more importantly, his wife and children) might look upon and envy, as they will never learn anything but cis-het marriage exists; and The Man does not care how miserable or broken anyone else feels, as long as anyone and everyone he wants to fuck is sexually subservient and available to him.

People of Color who cannot learn about sex will fall into all of the above, plus without knowledge of birth control or planning, will keep birthing new servants so The Man can break as many as he pleases and never run out, and keep those servants in inescapable poverty.

THE EXTREME OF WANTING TO CONTROL EVERYONE'S LIVES THROUGH DENYING THEM THEIR OLDEST HUMAN INSTINCTS IS INCREDIBLY DAMAGING AND NOT AT ALL NORMAL. You have control over YOU, and that is it. And just the same, no one else should be allowed to take that control away from you.

So from then on whenever one of us called something problematic, he would make us talk it out until we could name the “bad” thing we were hinting at. In this particular class, 7/10 it was some type of oppression, and the remainder was like, “I’m uncomfortable because this is very new/confusing/pushing boundaries that made me feel safe.”

Once we stopped calling things “problematic” and stopping at that, class got way more interesting and... we all had to say, like, “that’s racist” or “that’s misogynistic” or “ew capitalism gross” out loud, which a lot of us had never done in a classroom before. Or we had to be like, “Uhhh... I’m not sure what’s so bad?” and confront our own beliefs and that was maybe even more useful.