Argument 1: "Our paranoia around sexuality is just making things worse. We cover up breasts, hide magazines, shame people about their bodies. This actually ends up oversexualizing things - like how burkas imply that the thing it's hiding is so sexual it must be contained." (cont)
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Arg.1 notices that protecting against something increases the potency of the thing we're protecting against (problem is the pushback) Arg.1 notices that failing to protect will unleash the potency of the thing we're protecting against (problem exists is regardless of pushback)
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Really, both are probably true - the thing is both inherent *and* created. This feels like it has a lot of similarities to the current discussions around gender, which sometimes says the problem is the divisions we create, and sometimes says the problems are inherent.
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As in: Gender isn't real (we create the division) but trans people seem very biologically driven to present as the stereotype of the other gender (reinforcing the division). Your gender is your feelings (we create division) but women need a safe space (reinforcing the division)
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Seems to me that some of the problems in this domain is when someone says: Separate this from yourself that I might have it, and nothing else, while giving nothing in return. And: I have these feelings for you, and you must take them, without you having a choice in the matter.
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