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Having black and white men in dresses- on magazine covers -dragging us back to the 50’s-no pun intended-hopefully results in more people pushing back against this current version of “black face.”

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Every meekly sexually alive person in the world has what you term "fetishes." They are not diagnostic. They are expressive. Transsexuality is not a fetish. It is a response to the artificial hormonal environment, the disembodied sex- and genderless digital environment, and a culture where the only recognized form of sexuality is political.

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Fetishes are a compulsion by any standard, and this one has taken the bullet train of tech, is fueled by the porn industry cultivating men's sexual entitlement to women, and driven by the market.

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I’m not quite understanding your theory of sexuality. And I think that your definition of a fetish is psychiatric and unfair to those who simply have preferences. And even in psychiatric terms a fetish is not a disorder until it causes a problem. That is true of almost everything.

Are you suggesting that people who like to play dress up as part of their sex play are behaving compulsively? are you suggesting that people who are into the sounds of sex specifically or somehow sick? Are you proposing that there’s something wrong with people who like to play with photography as part of their private erotic life? Or are you suggesting that any strongly felt sexual desire is somehow a pathology?

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Laverne Cox's latest casting (in "Uglies")—as a character who forces kids to undergo surgical alterations of their bodies and minds to conform to stereotypical fashions—is just a little bit too on the nose •______•

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