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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 21 Nov 2018

      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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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 21 Nov 2018

      2. I don't know if anyone has gathered together a full anthology, but a large number of British writers (as far as I know all male) have written about the hold Margaret Thatcher had on their erotic imagination.

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    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 21 Nov 2018

      3. A few examples. J.G. Ballard: "I believe in the mysterious beauty of Margaret Thatcher, in the arch of her nostrils and the sheen of her lower lip…”pic.twitter.com/9vKH3Jvtb6

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    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 21 Nov 2018

      4. In 1982, Anthony Powell attended a dinner where he was seated between Thatcher & V.S. Naipaul. In his journals he wrote, "I continue to find Mrs Thatcher very attractive physically. Her overhanging eyelids, hooded eyes, are the only suggestion of mystery..."pic.twitter.com/YEMWkvSw7w

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    5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 21 Nov 2018

      5. In his memoirs, Kingsley Amis said he dreamed about Thatcher more than any other woman. Elsewhere that she was ‘One of the best-looking women I had ever met." He and Larkin shared such thoughts in their letters.

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    6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 21 Nov 2018

      6. Hitchens, in his memoirs, is the writer who goes into this subject at the most length, retelling with relish an anecdote about Thatcher whacking him on the bum with a copy of Parliamentary orders of the day and saying "naughty boy."

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    7. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 21 Nov 2018

      7. Hitchens account emphasizes the element of sadomasochism play in these fantasies, suggesting that Thatcher's hold on the "political libido" (CH's phrase) was about her power, the thrill of submitting to her dominance so to speak.

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    8. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 21 Nov 2018

      Jeet Heer Retweeted Trevor Panasiuk

      8. Another example.https://twitter.com/TrevorPanFry/status/1065408469811916800 …

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      Trevor Panasiuk @TrevorPanFry
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      Have you read Alan Hollinghurst's "The Line of Beauty"? There is a wonderful scene where Thatcher attends a dinner party of Tories and they are all completely enchanted by her--a mixture of love, lust and power overtakes them all.
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    9. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 21 Nov 2018

      Jeet Heer Retweeted Pallas Tweet

      9. There is an element of truth to this. Kissinger's "power is an aphrodisiac" can apply to powerful women as well as men. But it also plays out different in the two genders.https://twitter.com/PallasTweet/status/1065408246276481026 …

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      Pallas Tweet @PallasTweet
      Replying to @HeerJeet
      Not to interrupt your reverie, but if we can all understand why for millennia some women have been attracted to powerful men, why can't we understand that some me are attracted to powerful women?
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    10. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 21 Nov 2018

      10. I don't think I'm over reading these sexualizing comments as showing the need of many men, even those who supported her politics, to try and contain her, to foreground her gender broke gender barriers and triumphed in a male field.

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 21 Nov 2018

      Jeet Heer Retweeted Kim Davis

      11. This makes sense. Thatcher was a hugely disruptive figure, not just as first British Prime Minister but also a particularly transformative leader. The sexualization had an element of diminishment, saying in effect, "she's still a woman"https://twitter.com/WilfridPinkPig/status/1065409097313517568 …

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      Kim Davis @WilfridPinkPig
      Replying to @HeerJeet
      Because she was the first woman PM. Do you remember Angela Rippon? First woman newsreader on national TV. National erotic obsession.Guys do this stuff. Like your first woman teacher.
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        2. Ramona DePauw‏ @RamonaDepauw 21 Nov 2018
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          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.

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        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 21 Nov 2018
          Replying to @RamonaDepauw @PallasTweet

          Depends on the comment. In some of them, there is definitely an element of diminishment. Others are more sincere.

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        1. David M‏ @FishBelowTheIce 21 Nov 2018
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          Don’t forget https://goo.gl/images/MSX251 

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        1. Robert Longman  💉  🇺🇦‏ @rlongman1 21 Nov 2018
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          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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        1. Ian Gillespie‏ @IanRGillespie 21 Nov 2018
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          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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        1. Helena Cobban‏ @helenacobban 21 Nov 2018
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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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        1. Nigel Beale‏ @nigelbeale 22 Nov 2018
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          The desire to dominate one who is dominant

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        1. (((Rick Campbell)))‏ @RickCampbell4 15 Nov 2020
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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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        1. David L. Franze  🏳️‍🌈  🌊  🌊 🌊(I follow back)‏ @DavidLFranze 15 Nov 2020
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          Bear in mind Andrew Sullivan's obsessive Thatcherire fetishizing and you understand him as well.

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