My Octopus Teacher has sex and a touching relationship between a man and an octopode, but the sex is between two octopus. The human/octopus contact is platonic. https://twitter.com/sadydoyle/status/1308498541397118976 …
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Replying to @beyerstein
this is doing my head in. you can't just go "the man has an erotic relationship with an octopus" on a general public website, then act all shocked & pivot to "you rube, you simpleton, how could you possibly have thought I meant he wanted to screw the octopus, you absolute onion"
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Replying to @dsquareddigest
But he doesn’t have an erotic relationship with an octopus. Not even close. That’s just not an accurate description of the film.
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Replying to @beyerstein
I know. All this kerfuffle could have been saved if some professor had thought "oh hang on, maybe my queer theory terminology isn't the best way to describe an identifiable private citizen on Twitter and his relationship with an octopus"
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Replying to @dsquareddigest
I can’t even imagine how that claim comes out true in Queer Theory.
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For the record, "erotic" and "eros" are explicitly much broader terms in queer theory than in everyday usage It's not just queer theory either, it's a very common thing, arguably going back to ancient Greece itself
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Jung, for instance, who came way before "postmodernism" and "queer theory", called "eros" (along with its opposite "thanatos") one of the two basic forces of all human desire, the overall "life-urge" Enjoying or desiring anything for its own sake was "erotic"
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OP uses the word "platonic" to mean a non-sexual relationship and the word "platonic" comes from Plato describing the ideal form of eros as not containing sex!!!
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