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Heterosexuality Without Women
LOS ANGELES REVIEW OF BOOKS ^ | 05/20/2019 | Greta LaFleur

Posted on 09/18/2019 6:10:11 AM PDT by Salman

There’s a lot to look at in this image. At first glance, one sees the anonymity of Norman Rockwell’s mid-century America: the house-unparticular porch, the timelessness of the couple form. Take another look and the pillars supporting the unseen roof of the porch start to resemble the Ionic columns of the White House, the background becoming a gesture or a promise of possibility. You begin to see the image in the aggregate, and the couple, girded by a backdrop literally overwhelmed by the household, becomes the timelessness of the entire image. This photo also tells a profound story about whiteness, above and beyond the fact that almost everything in this photo is, itself, white. It’s such an all-consuming aesthetic, here, that it practically resists interpretation; like the generically familiar (to me, a white person) porch, the cover photo claims that there’s nothing to see, because we already know what it is. We have seen this image, we know this couple, “we” should be comfortable. My “we” is particular to me, but then again, I am more or less exactly who this photo is aimed at. As a queer person, I also notice the quasi-uniform-like aesthetic of Pete and Chasten — I wondered, for a second, if they were actually wearing the same pair of pants — marveling for a moment at the sartorial doppel-banging that at first seems to claim center stage in this photo, before realizing that, instead, there’s actually no sex at center stage, here. And that is part of the point.

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TOPICS: Politics; Religion
KEYWORDS: homosexualagenda
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To: Salman

The President and First Fudge Packer hopefuls?


21 posted on 09/18/2019 7:53:42 AM PDT by antidemoncrat
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To: nwrep

She’s in the “fleur” of her womanhood!

/s


22 posted on 09/18/2019 8:11:09 AM PDT by Disambiguator (Keepin' it analog.)
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To: cgbg

Find them? They *are* them.


23 posted on 09/18/2019 8:12:27 AM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)
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To: Salman

Heterosexuality = Biological Error

Shrinks nod


24 posted on 09/18/2019 8:53:40 AM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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To: Salman
They don't call it "analysis" for nothing.
25 posted on 09/18/2019 9:53:10 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it. --Douglas MacArthur)
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To: nwrep

This really cracked me up. I’ve been watching Video Reactions on YouTube by a guy who calls himself Modern Renaissance Man. He did a reaction to Mississippi Squirrel Revival, and then tacked on a comedy routine at the end, about a woman who had a dreadful wig, and it was made from hairs from a squirrel’s tail. She just went on and on about it, and that’s all I could think of when I saw this person’s picture.

Actually this guy is worth checking out. He’s funny, has great reactions to really good music, is a Christian, and has some interesting attitudes on race. He’s very refreshing.


26 posted on 09/18/2019 12:25:56 PM PDT by smalltownslick
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To: Aevery_Freeman

Yes, it’s called “having too much time on one’s hands”. Ya know, after having ‘thought’ of a cure for cancer, we can now spend some time examining the lint in our bellybuttons.


27 posted on 09/18/2019 1:27:09 PM PDT by Amberdawn (Want To Honor Our Troops? Then Be A Citizen Worth Fighting For.)
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To: Salman
"Heterosexuality Without Women"

I kinda always figured that's what Heaven must be like. The Stepford Wives in the clouds.

28 posted on 09/18/2019 7:07:27 PM PDT by Paal Gulli
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To: nwrep

WTF is that?

What planet did it come from?


29 posted on 09/18/2019 7:10:02 PM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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30 posted on 09/18/2019 10:06:56 PM PDT by musicman (The future is just a collection of successive nows.)
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To: Salman

The article said Buttplug and his other are “well muscled.” Say what?


31 posted on 09/20/2019 4:48:11 AM PDT by NetAddicted (Just looking)
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