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ismnotwasm

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4. It is creepy
Sun Mar 9, 2014, 02:48 PM
Mar 2014

And like I said it took me years to realize it-- although I tried to own my sexuality from an early age. I remember raging at the double standard, trying to flaunt it, not realizing what I was up against. I was "sex-positive" before there was such a term and discarded it as soon as I realized the real sexual and gendered inequities that existed.


One thing I've always puzzled over is my strong heterosexuality. I think most people are a least a little little bi, but that wasn't the way I leaned. So sorting through so much gendered baggage was difficult because there was so much of male behavior I actively disliked.

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That was really powerful. MadrasT Mar 2014 #1
Exactly ismnotwasm Mar 2014 #2
For me MadrasT Mar 2014 #3
It is creepy ismnotwasm Mar 2014 #4
+1 redqueen Mar 2014 #6
Very well written Stargazer09 Mar 2014 #5
& Tuesday Afternoon Mar 2014 #7
"you knew you were prey"--right on. As a woman who's lived alone most raccoon Mar 2014 #8
She sure watches a lot of TV elias7 Mar 2014 #9
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