Tag Archive | sexuality
Space for Rent: I Am Not Straight, I Am Heterosexual
Tweet of the Day: A Handmaid’s Tale Is a Warning to Conservative Women “I am a Christian.” Are not Lutherans, Roman Catholics, Mormons, Mennonites, Anglicans, Eastern Orthodox, and Quakers not Christians? Or are they not the “right” kind of Christian? Which means that those other denominations are “wrong” somehow. It is true that any […]
TV Tropes Monday: Vampire Are Sex Gods
Tweet of the Day: The Hour Glass ——— I am going to do something I rarely do, rip apart a trope .Furthermore I’m going to put on my hipster hat, you know the one, the obnoxious, “This was different and people today don’t get it”, one. Feel free to wonder off or close the window. […]
Space for Rent: Look but Don’t Touch
Tweet of the Day: Alisa Valdes: Anti-feminist romance not so romantic ——- Sounds simple enough, every responsible parent makes sure their children learn the difference between admiring an object and manipulating without permission. I am tempted to make a straight line analogy between this and the idea that no woman “asks” to be rape. That is, […]
Why Slut Shaming is Wrong
Because you are using the word wrong, Sex does not make you neither a slut or a whore, Whoring is a profession, the oldest of them all, Sluting is using your sex to abuse all, Abusing those that love, bullying those that don’t, And the word doesn’t care what is between your legs, After all, […]
World Building Wednesdays: Sex and Culture
Tweet of the Day: A Reaction to Klein’s Pyramid of Literary Quality ——– Marriage, Courtship, Reproduction, Sexual Roles, Sexual Identity, Religion, Law, Economy. All of those things are touch by or related in some way or another to sex. And I am not talking about sex as titillation for the reader (or writer) but as […]
TV Tropes Monday: Adaptational Sexuality as the New Black Face
Tweet of the Day: Strings of Retaliation – 6b – Mimosa ——- I’ve been trying to write a post about this subject for sometime, but for some reason I couldn’t come up with a coherent argument until I stumbled upon this trope. According to the tropes page Adaptational Sexuality occurs when the sexuality of a […]
TV Tropes Monday: Lipstick Lesbian
Tweet of the Day: Revealing Writer ——– A lipstick lesbian is a lesbian who dresses and acts in a manner that is considered conventionally feminine (for instance, wearing lipstick). Main-character lesbians on TV tend to fall into this category more often, as it’s often seen as “safer”, unless the show is going for “edgy”. […]
TVTropes Day: Author Appeal
Tweet of the Day: How “Dungeons and Dragons” Changed My Life ——- So, last night I tweeted a line that popped in my head and this is the response I got: BigWords88 Gary James @RafaWriter So… Every time she lies, her, um… I’m not gonna say it. http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MostCommonSuperPower To wit I answered (after clicking on […]
Outside the Norm
The other day a friend of mine, one of my Alphas for my second WIP asked me, “Why is <insert name of character> gay?” My answer was, “Because he is.” An answer that I then repeated in the comment section of of a post on on another writer’s blog about LGBT characters. It was an […]
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