They are happy to believe I forgot how they maimed me.

“[d/s dynamics in patriarchy] Fantasies of surveillance are one of the most pervasive modes of erotic dreaming in [Susan Warner’s] The Wide, Wide World. John’s surveillance may seem oppressive to modern readers, but for Ellen, the idea that “there was always somebody by, who whatever he might himself be doing, never lost sight of her” is deeply gratifying. John’s omniscience bathes Ellen’s body in a sensual male desire with which she can identifying, vicariously providing access to her own desiring body. Like the warden in a panopticon and like God in heaven, John can say “I saw it all, Ellie”; he sees not only everything that Ellen does, but everything she thinks: “How could you guess what I was thinking about, Mr. John?” Ellen asks; “How did you know - how could you know what I was thinking of?” The transparency implicit in being completely readable is erotically charged not only because in comports with ideologies of coverture, according to which female noncorporeality is erotically desire to a watching male, but also because it is allied with the religious ecstasies associated with total submission to God. The pleasures of examination and surveillance can be traced to the religious discourses that train Ellen to say, “Open my heart, Lord.” Not only is the sentimental image of God as the gentle, lovely guest whose outstretch’d hands offer physically intimacy metonymically evoked by a discourse of conquest and surveillance, but it is also eroticized, when associated with the ecstasies of total fusion with God that are the promised reward for yielding oneself up. The sinner does not willingly open herself up to the God, which is why an invasive stare and a severe examination are alluring.”

it really is a sign of victory of Liberalism that so many people that call themselves transgender feminists are willing to not only go to bat for someone who regularly cites Dworkin, Greer, and Rich (as well as Federici without caveats), and further that other transgender feminists are desperately trying to fit themselves into the framework of Radical Feminism, a framework that has, at material level, only proven to be effective at removing transgender women from feminist spaces. This is especially disappointing from so-called "Marxists," as if Engels leaned on radical feminism in 1884, or if Cuba's incredible family code in 2022 that still proves to be the most liberatory material leaps and bounds for transgender women is built atop radical feminism and not Cuba's way of organizing and democratizing society whose foundations are based on Marx and Engels' writings.

mark grayson

i call this one “using tumblr as a person of color”

latina edits of anissa 😍🤎