✚ “Proud to be a slut” Since 2013 the cultural climate has changed enough that I would not use that wording now. Too bad. Vivid metaphors are collateral damage in purity campaigns.pic.twitter.com/P89cXCk3B9
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✚ “Proud to be a slut” Since 2013 the cultural climate has changed enough that I would not use that wording now. Too bad. Vivid metaphors are collateral damage in purity campaigns.pic.twitter.com/P89cXCk3B9
Strikes me not as a purity campaign but a sex-positive campaign, which by association would make it a practice-positive campaign. Maybe a good metaphor is a small price to pay!
Not sure I follow… which campaign are you referring to, and in what way is it sex-positive?
Whatever purity campaign you were referring to. I guessed you meant something like "purity of language/thought campaign" against "slut"? I think that campaign is actually about changing a culture that limits women's sexual autonomy.
Ah, yes, that wasn’t what I meant! Pretty nearly the opposite. It’s hard to be clear, about anything at all, and harder about matters that are emotionally charged.
Well I assumed good faith! Still, I find delightful the idea that increased sexual freedom within a culture might buoy the reputation of experimental science over the theoretical by metaphorical linkage :-)
I am glad you like that! I semi-seriously think it can. I wrote something relevant here:https://meaningness.com/metablog/going-down-on-the-phenomenon …
In many ways, my favorite memories of college involve fumbling around in the dark with no idea what I was doing
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