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regressednegress
Aug 15, 2022
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It's embarrassing and distressing but I cannot help confessing how shamefully, powerfully arousing I find these stories. My professional colleagues, friends and family members would find it shocking, galling and appalling. As mortifying as it would be for me, it would be at least as horrifying for them to discover that someone who (re-)presents herself as a progressive, feminist professor and social justice activist is a furtive, obsessive-compulsive consumer of this stuff. That said, with my hand and mind wandering into darker territory, I was wondering about the possibility for more racial-ethnic diversity in characters, particularly female characters ... Perhaps something along the lines of taking females of color, adults and/or teens. who are of high moral character and repute ... intelligent and self-confident high achievers ... maybe churchgoers, other community and/or student leaders ... progressive and/or conservative politically, socially assertive and/or shyer, more reserved ... but, in any case earnest, perhaps innocent, maybe idealistic, maybe more realistic, but naively trusting ... maybe uptight, prim and proper, maybe a bit prudish ... Regardless, self-respecting, highly principled women and girls of color, with strong senses of dignity and integrity, self-consciously and conscientiously determined and committed to (re-)present and amplify positive, proud, empowered and empowering role models of their racial-ethnic group ... And have such upstanding, accomplished females of color manipulated and turned into (self-)betraying caricatures and parodies of the worst racial-sexual stereotypes and tropes ... for African-American and/or Asian or Hispanic females (in addition to what you have already), which could be for political and/or professional motives and/or petty personal ones.
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