In Bed With The Right: Midge Decter with Matt Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell
The Feminist Present
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The Beast With Two Backs
The new chastity refers to lesbianism, right? Because for all of her homophobia directed at men in things like the boys on the beach, which I do want to get to because I think it's a fascinating text. For real kind of like almost obsessive homophobia is directed towards lesbians who she sees as people who have failed the Freudian task of reconciling the masochism of women's heterosexuality. She really, she frames sexual force as sort of good for women to experience as edifying. Yeah,. you've withdrawn from the real world, which is men into this like child like fake world of women.
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