“haha nice humble brag.’ women’s sexual aggression empowers them whereas male advances are highly threatening. men are expected to recognize and react as if unwanted advances from a woman as less-than catastrophic—when they are.https://twitter.com/nastyinmuhtaxi/status/1049410915093889024 …
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a more robust sexuality allows give and take, permits sexual advances and rebuffs within acceptable boundaries. women shouldn’t fear men’s advances or feel powerless to rebuff them; this is a worryingly and and increasingly pervasive worldview.
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near as harmful that men should actively worry about being perceived as threatening. (hello yes this is racial profiling i.e. not a good idea.) would also think they ought not to fear total ridicule for unwanted advances, equally and in different ways, for their own and women’s.
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but men typically are ridiculed, and for both, while it is understood that women not be for either. this double standard is the symptom of a lack of good faith. paranoia smothers trust in the cradle.
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the well: a deep cultural uncertainty regarding boundaries and customs of courtship. and the poison: assumptions of competing interests and sinister intentions.
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a perverse sexual morality is nascent and we are piecing it together as a culture—it is the product of _discourse_ (heidegger) which is the functional basis of his _distantiality_.
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