I think there's going to be a psychoanalytic story here that has to do with questions about care and dependence and tude and vulnerability. The way in which women very often represent a threat to sovereignty, in the sense of sort of revealing the lie about patriarchal individualism. I certainly don't think patriarchies reducible to capitalism. Obviously, patriarchal forms of organization predate capitalism and have existed side of it. But i am skeptical about about regulatory attempts to change the main mind of patriarchy.
What are the politics of sex? Incels, porn, sexual racism, the feminist sex wars, and more. Philosopher Amia Srinivasan on her new essay collection The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century.
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