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i read this quote r.e. the smiths' first album
"mainly through Moz's dramatised disgust at sex, which here exists to ruin true love at best, and to ruin an entire young life at worst"
both seem bitingly relatable. it's really unsettling that it's so essential to being human
9/15/2022, 8:45:11 AM
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the problem never was the act itself, but the mental impact of sexuality. the corruption of attitudes towards each other, propensity to abuse, undermining of the self when abused and loss of innocence. i respect ррl getting away frm it but worry they'll hurt themselves in the end
9/15/2022, 8:45:12 AM
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morrissey said another very shrewd thing about it once, in 1985 even
"I don't recognise such terms as heterosexuality, homosexuality, bisexuality... These words do great damage, they confuse people and they make people feel unhappy, so I want to do away with them."
9/15/2022, 8:45:12 AM
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there was once a place for pride (anti-hate) and labels (self-understanding), but the way things have gone w/ identity politics and gender ideology, the concepts have turned from insightful into prescriptive exo-skeletons used to define in-groups and cope w/ pains of being human
9/15/2022, 8:45:13 AM
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to combine strands: i don't doubt some ppl are objectively very asexual, but i see the prestige around the idea, the binary, the epithetisation and the flags, as putting us at risk of coping by being untrue to ourselves
for me, sexuality was a problem that required active care
9/15/2022, 8:45:14 AM
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but it also seems clear to me as a general point that self-identification is the opposite of self-acceptance
9/15/2022, 8:45:14 AM
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