it's about oppressive relations...

[Diane Monaco]

At 11:08 AM 10/24/2002 -0400, you wrote:
> > Images or real life roles that put members on the short end of unequal
> > power relations in subordinate, submissive, or servile roles -- sssssssss
> > -- is domination -- which is a form of oppression.  That's pretty damn
> > obnoxious and obscene.  Moreover, these oppressive images and real life
> > roles can never go on to alleviate this oppression.  How can something
> > oppressive alleviate oppression?
> >
> > Diane
>
>So, when we fuck, in order to undermine oppression, should we just do it
>side by side, like spoons? For if one climbs atop another, isn't that
>domination?

Not necessarily. Women in pre-1911 revolution China with bound-feet were 
literally carried around much like the male feudal lords were carried 
around in rickshaws, does that mean the women were dominant like the feudal 
lords?  Of course not.

Diane


>Isn't the other person being oppressed, especially if they have
>a cock or dildo crammed in their cunt or ass? Maybe just mutual masturbation
>done at ten paces with eyes averted -- that might summon a better tomorrow
>faster.
>
>DP