1. A few thoughts on Kingsley Amis, Philip Larkin, J.G. Ballard, Anthony Powell, Christopher Hitchens, BDSM, the political libido, & the tendency of some male writers to sexualize Margaret Thatcher.
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Diminishment is more like what Trump does, denigrating the looks of every woman who rejects or accuses him. These comments you’re tweeting about sound more like what
@PallasTweet said. Raspberries to all those who can’t imagine the erotic power of a woman not a starlet type. -
Depends on the comment. In some of them, there is definitely an element of diminishment. Others are more sincere.
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Don’t forget https://goo.gl/images/MSX251
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Strange. Sitting here in the US, I had no idea that there were men who thought of Thatcher sexually. I just thought of her as a somewhat stiff-looking leader who wielded much power in a stuck society that *had to* change somehow, but kept refusing it.
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Interesting & entirely plausible hypothesis, but the diminishment part. while plausible, is entirely tacked on w/o shred of supporting evidence that it applies in this case. Perhaps these are just men who are attracted to dominant women & admired Thatcher. I see no diminishment.
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Yes. Plus just continually subjecting her to the male gaze & showing that it is (or was, then) AOK for men to talk publicly in this sexualized way about any woman they want to— even Mrs T! (It may be different now, esp after
#MeToo
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The desire to dominate one who is dominant
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Hitchens take is of interest because though he thought her malevolent, it was the weaknesses in institutions and infrastructure of Britain at the time that made her right about some of the U.K’s problems. That realization he referred to as a “rodent stirring in my viscera”
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Bear in mind Andrew Sullivan's obsessive Thatcherire fetishizing and you understand him as well.
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