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                                                            April 15, 2018

The same point came up in two places in:

  BEYOND_THE_BLUE

  Srinivasan speaks as though there are only two
  choices, either we'll regard desire (e.g.
  a sexual fetish) as fair game for discussion and
  criticism, or we'll regard it as "fixed" and
  never question where it came from or how it
  relates to any other attitude.


I think the actual issue is not whether                                          
you're *allowed* to discuss the context       One might hope for a future where       
or history underlying any sexual complex,     black guys doing blondes no longer      
but what role you expect that discussion      seems tremendously transgressive        
to play.                                      without expecting that a ban on         
                                              pornography about such things will      
The default feminist attitude often           help us get there any faster.           
seems to be judgmental finger-waggling.                                               
Setting yourself up as some sort of fetish                                           
approval committe is unlikely to go over          BLOND_AMBITION
very well-- in fact it's unlikely to        
modify any sexual attitudes greatly       
(though it might succeed in driving them   
underground-- "silencing" them).                 
                                                 PHILOSOPHER_ACTIVIST
                                
  For me, the question is why           
  any exposition on the source
  of desire be expected to    
  necessarily undercut it...                                         
  even if it isn't                                                        
  "fixed" or "primordial".                                                
                                                                          
                                                                          
  What would ever give you the idea                                       
  that a frontal assault on a sexual                                      
  fetish, angrily describing it as                                        
  Bad Think rooted in a long history                                      
  of Bad Think is going to somehow                 (Oooh, tell me more  
  fix it?                                          about how bad and  
                                                   nasty I am.)       
                                                   
                                                   
                                                   
                                                   



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