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Shame affirmative, redux The objectification of women in mainstream porn
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So: Don’t like Bitch Lab? Join the club, and don’t read her. Read the women she rips off instead. They’re better.
So: Don’t like Bitch Lab? Join the club, and don’t read her. Read the women she rips off instead. They’re better.
09-25-2006
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Interestingly, Fausto-Sterling indicated in a later piece (Sexing the Body?) that her five genders formulation was meant to be mocking hyperbole, and not to be taken seriously. As I recall, she thought that not only was five insufficient, but that the taxonomological impulse was fraught with danger where humans and sex was concerned (but I’m slack and can’t cite at the moment).
“Making reproductive role more figural than other characteristics is, as Carrol illuminated so beautifully, a political decision. It supports Capitalism, just as claims do that greed is more natural than sharing. We could divide people in any number of other ways –greedy vs sharing, for example– and simply presume that reproduction will happen. But reproduction is important to people interested in power, so a lot of energy is directed at making it figural and unavoidable.”
Have their been societies in human history that don’t divide people by reproductin? Isn’t a large part of the motivation behind this grouping that reproduction is the be-all-end-all when it comes to survival of the species? (Though I could see also where researchers in search of simple ways to explain complex behavior would brush aside exceptions as insignificant deviants rather than potentially critical componenets.)
It was in The Five Sexes Revisited (here), referenced in a footnote in Sexing the Body that I remembered.