Jay Boyd > Recent Status Updates

"The camera is the penile presence, the viewer is the male who participates in the sexual action, which is not within the photograph but in the perception of it. The photograph dies not document lesbian lovemaking; in fact, it barely resembles it. . .The exposed ass is an emblem for the values in the photograph as a whole. The contact between the women does not exclude the male; it explicitly invites him." (47)

"In the second vignette, Paul, the wealthy middle-aged man. . .also uses a camera is if it were a penis. The camera becomes part of the sexual action. The camera is not a substitute for the penis; rather it is as if he had two. He chooses which penis to use. Taking a photograph becomes a form of sexual action in itself. . .in that in producing a collection of photographs, it produces wealth." (42)

"The power of sex, in male terms, is also funereal. Death permeates it. The male erotic trinity–sex, violence, and death–reigns supreme. She will be or she is dead. They did or will kill her. Everything that they do to or with her is violence." -pg. 30

“My goal is to show how a biology of hierarchy in which there is only one sex, a biology of incommensurability between two sexes, and the claim that there is no publicly relevant sexual difference at all, or no sex, have constrained the interpretation of bodies and the strategies of sexual politics for some two thousand years” (23).

an immense step up intellectually from wwhbsus so far

"...In addition, to varying degrees, socialist states promoted the idea that sexuality should be disentangled from economic exchange, and in the case of East Germany and Czechoslovakia, politicians and doctors openly claimed that this made relationships more 'authentic' and 'honest' than in the west" (148). and as it should!

Ghodsee is like "yeah capitalists wanted to see socialist states fail (and tried at every chance to make them fail) and women generally fared better in Eastern European socialist states but...authoritarian bad :(" Like do you even hear yourself?

Here, Ghodsee basically says "I want women's liberation and I want it overnight but authoritarianism is bad :("

immensely frustrating read but still contains so much great information.

chapter 2 banged pretty hard. think my mom would’ve liked it a lot

Hey Kristen, where do the Scandinavian countries get their money? It’s not imperialism, is it?