The Discipline of Indirection

"There are a lot of swishy little boys around here. You know this comment is about you, but the person just opens their mouth to release its venom into the air," she writes. The disciplinary power of indirection resides in how its sanctions, class, race, and gender normativity in the overall texture of the social,. resulting in structural conditions that legitimize not breaking while rendering vulnerable or punishing femininity cast as always imminent vulnerability.