Word: heterosexism
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...little-girl sound in Hanna's singing (and in her frequent screaming) has, I think, a political function: like the term "grrrl" (and the little-girl photo on the cover), it seems to me to be reclaiming girlhood as a time of empowerment, before the heterosex drive kicks in and spoils everything. (If I'm right, it's a strategy psychologists have validated: Carol Gilligan and others have shown that girls in America have much more self-esteem before puberty than after...
...origin of human society is characterized by...a year round prevalence of female asexuality, bisex, and homosex, compared to the relative infrequency of exclusive heterosex...
...culture is rather like a radio receiving many disparate signals simultaneously. U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young's utterances detonate like cherry bombs. Anita Bryant, the Pasionaria of heterosex, arouses furies in her campaign against homosexuals. The air is full of serious issues that few people except those directly affected take all that seriously: human rights, Laetrile, Idi Amin...
...easy going relationships the enjoyed with girls in high school. He misses the informal babbling of voices in the Union dining hall. Most important, he is frightened of mixers, tea-dances, Radcliffe jolly-ups. He hesitates to inject himself into the structured and fiercely competitive world of Harvard heterosex. In addition, he yearns for the hard-core communitas of his old school chums. Most often, his longing for pre-college status and situations skulks underground. When his friends tease about how much he talks of "the old days" he is genuinely suprised, or denies the preoccupation altogether...
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