Posted by floatingbridge on March 15, 2010, at 2:45:56
In reply to Re: Dalat » floatingbridge, posted by sigismund on March 14, 2010, at 22:45:34
> I grew up knowing that people were among the least important things.
> This is because we were a settler society that had profited greatlyI've never connected the dots this way. The States are founded upon genocide and slavery.
> The question raised was 'Why did not ONE complain?', and the only answer that makes any sense is that there was this huge hunger for friendly sensual contact, which they might have received from their friends or their parents but which they were forced to live without as the hue and cry about homosexuality
surrounded them like a witchcraze. Many boys would spend half a decade with almost no touch.During my monominiacal reading about parenting while pregnant, I came across a number of studies that documented that in the USA boys are touched by their parents far less often than girls, even during infancy. And the ways in which they are touched are very different as well.
And all thoughts lead to film (sorry--an annoying habit, at least to me). Just thought of Jane Campion's first feature, Sweetie. Her student shorts also deal with repressed sensuality and eros.
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> No wonder relations between the sexes there were just as Neanderthal. Australia has changed though.
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> Another thing not to pass on.
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