I am also a woman of a certain age. And oh man, does this strike a chord with me. Clang clang clang. Walking along an urban sidewalk, leered at, called a flat assed bitch, frigid, a lesbian, out loud, by strangers, because I didn't welcome the leers. Learning to cross the street, take a detour, if I spotted a cluster of males ahead. …
I am also a woman of a certain age. And oh man, does this strike a chord with me. Clang clang clang. Walking along an urban sidewalk, leered at, called a flat assed bitch, frigid, a lesbian, out loud, by strangers, because I didn't welcome the leers. Learning to cross the street, take a detour, if I spotted a cluster of males ahead. Yes, also the bosses who 'just wondered" what I thought of fucking bosses. The saddest part is that in my youth I bought into it, that's just the way things are.
At college, in those times, Freud. Oh don't get me started on Freud. Revered by male intellectuals, the greatest materialist, sexist the world has ever known, the very author of male sexual entitlement. The way things are is the way things are meant to be, but more, the Great Man says so. I embrace all the women, myself included, who were victims of Weinstein and all the other messed up men who made women suffer. We've come a long way sistas, and we ain't going back.
"At college, in those times, Freud. Oh don't get me started on Freud. Revered by male intellectuals, the greatest materialist, sexist the world has ever known, the very author of male sexual entitlement."
Right. The midcentury "Again" America MAGA promises to Make Great may have been nominally Christian, but Freud was its sex god.
People truly focused on traditional Christian teaching, and not using it as cover to sneak in other old prejudices, have sexual hangups that are remarkably egalitarian compared to midcentury Freudianism. The Christian teaching isn't, "My fornication is good because I'm 'normal', and yours is bad because you're 'deviant'." It's that even normal fornication is wrong. Even dwelling on perfectly normal lusts is wrong (Matthew 5:28). That's such a demanding standard that it may seem inhuman, and it's particularly painful if you're gay in a church that doesn't recognize gay marriage. It's still far more egalitarian that midcentury Freudian standards.
Someone quipped, "If you hated the Christian right, just wait till you meet the post-Christian right." As "barstool conservatism" arises, we meet 'em. Those folks indulging Trumpian behavior as that of a "baby Christian"? What they call "baby Christian" is really full-blown Freudian.
I am also a woman of a certain age. And oh man, does this strike a chord with me. Clang clang clang. Walking along an urban sidewalk, leered at, called a flat assed bitch, frigid, a lesbian, out loud, by strangers, because I didn't welcome the leers. Learning to cross the street, take a detour, if I spotted a cluster of males ahead. Yes, also the bosses who 'just wondered" what I thought of fucking bosses. The saddest part is that in my youth I bought into it, that's just the way things are.
At college, in those times, Freud. Oh don't get me started on Freud. Revered by male intellectuals, the greatest materialist, sexist the world has ever known, the very author of male sexual entitlement. The way things are is the way things are meant to be, but more, the Great Man says so. I embrace all the women, myself included, who were victims of Weinstein and all the other messed up men who made women suffer. We've come a long way sistas, and we ain't going back.
"At college, in those times, Freud. Oh don't get me started on Freud. Revered by male intellectuals, the greatest materialist, sexist the world has ever known, the very author of male sexual entitlement."
Right. The midcentury "Again" America MAGA promises to Make Great may have been nominally Christian, but Freud was its sex god.
People truly focused on traditional Christian teaching, and not using it as cover to sneak in other old prejudices, have sexual hangups that are remarkably egalitarian compared to midcentury Freudianism. The Christian teaching isn't, "My fornication is good because I'm 'normal', and yours is bad because you're 'deviant'." It's that even normal fornication is wrong. Even dwelling on perfectly normal lusts is wrong (Matthew 5:28). That's such a demanding standard that it may seem inhuman, and it's particularly painful if you're gay in a church that doesn't recognize gay marriage. It's still far more egalitarian that midcentury Freudian standards.
Someone quipped, "If you hated the Christian right, just wait till you meet the post-Christian right." As "barstool conservatism" arises, we meet 'em. Those folks indulging Trumpian behavior as that of a "baby Christian"? What they call "baby Christian" is really full-blown Freudian.