Cleaning up the world by adding smut
Jun. 16th, 2005 03:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
neadodsDon't get too thrilled, this isn't actually a post about smut. It's a larger expounding on a side-thread on an anti-slash post. (I'm not going to identify the original poster for fear of calling a swarm on her.)
Her objection is the basic one - how come someone can't just like someone else (or hate them) without it being some Sekrit Passion? I can't answer that question because I'm usually asking it myself; I've just chalked it up to the Broccoli Principle and ignore slash.
But while I was answering her, I had an epiphany.
Fundamentalists are slashing the world. Seriously, just about everything that's wrong, doomed, and just plain eeeeeeeville boils down to sex. And they see sex EVERYWHERE. It's a given that anyone, anywhere, anytime is just itching to get off with the first warm thing they see.
It explains lackadasical attitudes towards rape and protection of women - the women want it too. (That's why a woman's reputation is ruined if she's alone with a man for more than a few minutes. They OBVIOUSLY did it!)
It explains the punitive attitudes towards birth control and abortion. You wanted to have sex, you tawdry whore! You must be punished!
It explains the censorship that had people screaming "OMG, there's the word 'sex' in a single frame of a single scene in a Disney movie, you perverts! My child found that!" That child found meaning in a random swirl because that child was going through the movie frame by frame looking for something naughty. That ain't Disney's fault. There is some seriously screwed up parenting going on there.
And it even explains part of the hysteria against gay marriage. They're pushing for not only a ban against gay marriage but also against "the legal incidents thereto." With one stroke of a pen and a vote that most people haven't looked into closely enough, they ban all powers of attorney, all medical decision making, and all business partnerships - on the assumption that the people in those partnerships are having sex with each other!
I have rented a room out of someone's house, and someone is renting a room out of mine. That's not legal in some states - because we MUST be lesbians, rather than sharing the fiscal burden of getting through the year. My family lives quite some distance from me. When my parents go, my closest living relative will be about 5 states away. But fundies forbid that I pick a local friend to take care of my affairs if something happens to me. Because we MUST be having carnal relations rather than being sensible about proximity and preference.
They call us the smutty evil ones. But they're the ones who are obsessed with sex.
Her objection is the basic one - how come someone can't just like someone else (or hate them) without it being some Sekrit Passion? I can't answer that question because I'm usually asking it myself; I've just chalked it up to the Broccoli Principle and ignore slash.
But while I was answering her, I had an epiphany.
Fundamentalists are slashing the world. Seriously, just about everything that's wrong, doomed, and just plain eeeeeeeville boils down to sex. And they see sex EVERYWHERE. It's a given that anyone, anywhere, anytime is just itching to get off with the first warm thing they see.
It explains lackadasical attitudes towards rape and protection of women - the women want it too. (That's why a woman's reputation is ruined if she's alone with a man for more than a few minutes. They OBVIOUSLY did it!)
It explains the punitive attitudes towards birth control and abortion. You wanted to have sex, you tawdry whore! You must be punished!
It explains the censorship that had people screaming "OMG, there's the word 'sex' in a single frame of a single scene in a Disney movie, you perverts! My child found that!" That child found meaning in a random swirl because that child was going through the movie frame by frame looking for something naughty. That ain't Disney's fault. There is some seriously screwed up parenting going on there.
And it even explains part of the hysteria against gay marriage. They're pushing for not only a ban against gay marriage but also against "the legal incidents thereto." With one stroke of a pen and a vote that most people haven't looked into closely enough, they ban all powers of attorney, all medical decision making, and all business partnerships - on the assumption that the people in those partnerships are having sex with each other!
I have rented a room out of someone's house, and someone is renting a room out of mine. That's not legal in some states - because we MUST be lesbians, rather than sharing the fiscal burden of getting through the year. My family lives quite some distance from me. When my parents go, my closest living relative will be about 5 states away. But fundies forbid that I pick a local friend to take care of my affairs if something happens to me. Because we MUST be having carnal relations rather than being sensible about proximity and preference.
They call us the smutty evil ones. But they're the ones who are obsessed with sex.
