Doug Henwood wrote:
> Not eating, but how and what we eat is heavily scripted by culture,
> class, and personal history
Even the most rational "practice" necessarily involves a great deal of "routine", the "second nature" or "habitus" (In Aristotle's sense) aspect of "virtuosity".
You seem to use "scripting" in a sense that doesn't allow for a distinction between this and, say, an obsessional set of routines expressing psychopathology as in Taylorism (Jack Nicholson plays a character in (if I remember rightly) Five Easy Pieces whose routinized sex falls into the latter category i.e. in order to come he requires a sex worker to follow a "script" to the letter).
I take it you don't agree with other listers who are enraged by the idea that sexuality can express psychopathology.
Ted