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dearly beloved@ mukanjouThis is my unethical polycule. The nonmonogamy is consensual and negotiated we're just evil in other ways.
This place is not a place of honor… no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here… nothing valued is here.
What is here was dangerous and repulsive to us. This message is a warning about danger.
The danger is in a particular location… it increases towards a center… the center of danger is here… of a particular size and shape, and below us.
The danger is still present, in your time, as it was in ours.
The danger is to the body, and it can kill.
The form of the danger is an emanation of energy.
The danger is unleashed only if you substantially disturb this place physically.
This place is best shunned and left uninhabited.
The “gaze” in male gaze was never about portraying attractive women. It’s Tarantino using his own hands to gratuitously choke out a woman in Inglorious Basterds, it’s every evocation of the “born sexy yesterday” trope, it’s the exoticism of women of color. I’m tired of hearing white women call some shot of a white guy’s pecs “the female gaze.” It misses the point and diminishes the violence done to these women to whitewash the gaze to “women are shown being attractive”, and by using “female gaze” to refer to any man being shown attractively you’re doubly erasing the history of gay and bi men in film.