we’re now working with (arbitrary but useful) separate categories for sexuality, gender, and gender expression.
what may be missing is sexual expression. and maybe kink and poly should be framed as falling under sexual expression. like, these are ways of being SNC, maybe.
of the current three, gender expression is kind of given short shrift in the discourse; there are comprehensible reasons for that and yet it’s not a particularly satisfactory state of affairs. bigtime competing access needs, alas. and presumably the same sorts of issues would arise around how to deal discursively with sexual expression. so my bringing this up may just be doubling/mirroring the can of worms we already have to contend with on that front, i.e., maybe I’m not helping.
but if nothing else it might help some ppl wrap their heads around what these things are even doing in the conversation, why they keep coming up, why there need to be ways to talk about them. like, even if you end up at the conclusion that expression stuff needs to be deprioritized in favor of identity stuff, maybe just in certain contexts, having the lexicon with which to articulate why and acknowledge tradeoffs and so on is going to be useful and might help dial down some of the unthinking contempt.
I’ve been personally categorizing ‘sexual expression’ as a 4th category for a while. It seems like the obvious extrapolation of the general consensus on how to talk about gender vs sexuality. If gender expression is a thing, sexual expression has to be a thing, too. They’re related but can be conceptually separated, and sometimes that’s useful. Especially when you start getting into kinks that are all about presenting as one gender, but being treated as a second one during a scene, crossdressing, stuff like that. And poly, too, of course – including desiring sex with multiple partners at a time, and so forth… that’s all specific expressions of a person’s sexuality, that isn’t necessarily easily expressed by just talking about who you are or who you’re attracted to – it’s also about what you’re attracted to and desire.
my thesis involves this principle! in fluids, viscosity (the thickness/stickiness of the fluid) and inertia (the tendency of something to stay in motion when a force is exerted) are in competition. glycerin is incredibly viscous, so the viscosity beats the inertia and the dye doesn’t shift beyond where it is immediately pushed–so exerting an equal and opposite force on the dye just puts it back to its exactly original position.
Listen, i’d absolutely fuck a consenting, self-aware monster, but I wouldn’t fuck every monster.
A werewolf, he comes to me and says “hey, you wanna go for a ride?” and I says “sure” because he’s hot.
But If Godzilla came to me and says that, no. Godzilla is a father figure. Not for fucking.
Op the fact that size doesn’t deter you but the principal of the matter and the metaphorical ramifications of sexing Godzilla makes you the perfect 2018 mood honestly
This is the nicest addition to this post I’ve gotten. Its mostly other monsterfuckers calling me a coward.
Thesis: the tendency in academia to regard “pure” sciences as more prestigious than applied sciences is just the sciencey version of the idea that a true gentleman has no practical skills.
The engineering faculty is throwing a christmas party and invited, among others, the deans of most other faculties, resulting almost immediately in hostility on all fronts.
Sociology starts by taking the piss at Business: “You know that what you’re doing is basically just the application of our theories, right?“
“Well, sociology, too, is just building on the application of our theories“, says Psychology.
“Which wouldn’t be possible without us laying the groundwork“, Neurology states, to which Biology responds: “Dude, that’s just what we were doing already, you just took off!“
“Okay, but it’s both basically applied chemistry, anyway”, Chemistry chimes in
“Yeah, but you too just apply our findings“, Physics rebuts
“Well, I think-“, Philosophy wants to add to the conversation, but is hit by a brick wrapped in graph paper flying through the window.
The note on it is by Mathematics and reads: “Holy shit someone come down here and pick me up! I can’t find the door of this hellcube“
My first lecture of this semester heavily involved the lecturer explaining that he has to have this argument with himself across different modules
Bonus points if you can get a slapfight going about whether philosophy is just applied mathematics, or vice versa!
just moving along like everyone else 