Privelege Was Re: [lbo-talk] Re: Maoist cleanup drive hits

ravi ravi at platosbeard.org
Mon Jan 8 10:30:35 PST 2007


At around 8/1/07 1:03 pm, Charles Brown wrote:
> Chuck
>
> Jim Straub wrote:
>> My own experience is that leftists hate on kinky BDSM sex ALL the time,
> maybe even more than honkie america. I've gotten in so many arguments >
> about this with radicals over the years. It's so strange. Why do so > many
> leftos have mean things to say about BDSM? Can someone on this > list make
> whatever argument there is to make, about BDSM being bad or > fundamentally
> oppressive or whatever? I just can't imagine what > intellectual content
> there could be to any such assertion.
>
> Amen! The hostility that lefties have towards kinky sex, including many on
> this list...
>

Pish tosh. The majority of this list (100s of members last I checked) suffer the few of us with opinionated arses who post, which implies they are definitely into the D and M part of BDSM... but then again, perhaps it is a sort of kinkiness that requires self-hostility of some sort... these things get so circular it's tough to keep track of them. ;-)

For the record: I have no mean things to say about BDSM. I do agree with CB (and it is quite impossible not to agree with him) that the BDSM community should qualify (or describe) their version of Sadism since the history and conventional use of the term seems to describe an act and thinking that one can hardly support (irrespective of one's prudishiness and so on).

--ravi



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