The cutting up that girls do secretly in their bedrooms, the nipple piercing that is performed in high street studios, breast implant surgery, sex reassignment surgery, are connected. They are all forms of self-mutilation, and increasingly the cutting is carried out by proxies for a profit. They are responses to low social status, sexual and physical abuse or severe emotional distress created by a male dominant society which does not accept women's varied body shapes or condemns homosexuality.
Apparently this trend entered the mainstream due to the influence of self-hating homosexual men.
The forms of injury provided by these studios and independent operators ranged from bellybutton piercings to the extremes of spearing straight through the torso as carried out by the Californian ex-advertising executive Fakir Musafar. The practices stemmed from two main sources, punk fashion and gay male sadomasochism.
Gay male fashion designers placed pierced models on their catwalks, and helped to inscribe a practice that had symbolised gayness, onto the bodies of conventional young women and some young men.
The practices of mutilation that are being carried out on the bodies of women, girls and vulnerable categories of men in the early 21st Century are savage and increasing in their brutality. Underlying the demand for these practices is the despair of those with low social status, particularly women and gay men. The harms of misogyny, sexual and physical abuse and gay-hating, create the ability of those who self-mutilate to disassociate emotionally from their bodies, and to blame their bodies for their distress.
Someone should hook her up with a complementary SuicideGirls membership. It'd give her enough source material to generate books and papers and proclamations for the next hundred years, if her brain didn't explode on first contact.
She needs to unclench. Nothing irritates me more than a neurotic Professor of Fuss-potting masking inner conflicts with acrid erudite babbling, which I think this is.
Anyone who chooses their sexuality out of political principle and not because they're horny needs their head examined.
"She became a lesbian in 1973 because she felt it contradictory to give "her most precious energies to a man"
Precious energies, or lurrrve juice?
"Six years later, she went further and wrote, with others, a pamphlet entitled Love Your Enemy? The Debate Between Heterosexual Feminism And Political Lesbianism. In it, feminists who sleep with men are described as collaborating with the enemy."
Well thank goodness she doesn't speak for all feminists. Unfortunately the more radical they are the more they are heard and then people get silly ideas like ^^^ represents all feminists.
On another note, I always thought my tattoos were beautiful...like an enhancement, I don't see how they are mutilation at all.
Kore said:
whatever, she should realize that she can't define people's actions so broadly, especially without actually hearing from said people. it's ridiculous.
+1
her theories are biased pseudoscience and just rather silly.
Oh... and for the record, I got my tattoo because it meant something to me. I got my nipples pierced on a whim and I got my septum pierced because... I was bored.
NoThanks
American Samoa
March 2006
APR 10, 2006 04:37 AM