WMS 70 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Marital Rape, Heterosexuality, Mortar And Pestle
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Outsiders say it is a master/slave relationship. Radical feminists say it is reinforcing and internalizing the patriarchy. Sex shouldn"t be about violence, and it definitely shouldn"t be modeling masculine aggression. Weiss responds to insiders and outsiders, in her third way , by saying that the fantasy and play scenes gain meaning because they eroticize the existing social power structures. She thinks every sexual identity is formed in a matrix of socialization, economics, power structures and there are no ways to escape them, so we just work within them. This is true of all sexual identities, not just bdsm, so we should not overburden bdsm as the villain. Liberation (or resistance) and oppression are not binaries!!!! Efficacy: the quality or success of the act of performing. Weiss is saying that performative efficacy of bdsm scenes depends on the economic/power structures that the scenes are founded on. How feminism is incapable of discussing sexuality.
