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⌈ Secret Post #2874 ⌋

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Comments

[dreemyweird]

Although I have to second the things said upthread (that this is not necessarily a harmful attitude and that sexuality can be one of the sources of power, regardless of your gender), I must say that the trope where women use their sexuality in this way bores me to tears. It's not... harmful, per se, it's just boring and has been overdone so, so badly.

I appreciate that it was written in a different time. And that black folks have a different experience with these things. So I suppose I understand why some black women may find this catharctic/why it could have been popular back then. Why it would be popular nowadays/among white women? No idea. I think it may have something to do with the general liking for the "sexually powerful!!!" female figure in fiction, and that's, well, that's not terribly interesting nor terribly progressive.

[(Anonymous)]

I can see why it would because while white women have definitely been defined by their sexuality there is still a 'right' kind of sexy and a 'wrong' kind of sexy. Even today. I like to think that things have changed and to a degree they have, but also not really. I think the idea of a woman getting define and own her sexuality on her own terms without having to fall into the right kind of box is still pretty progressive. And being white doesn't mean your cultural and social experiences are all the same.