Geez, indeed. For all of your obsession with Habermas, you have a pretty shallow conception of intersubjectivity. The distinction here is hardly between one of active and passive. Assuming that one wants to talk in essentialist terms about a national sexuality to begin with, a sexual relationship which involves [at a minimum] two people, one from the USSR and one not, is clearly not USSR sex, but international sex. By contrast, one can experience the food/cuisine of another nation in much a less mediated way, since the nature of the food itself does not change with the person who eats it. Why does the mere mention of sex always put you into this active-passive mode of thinking?
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Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never has, and it never will. If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation are men who want crops without plowing the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its waters. -- Frederick Douglass --
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