Andrew Gaertner
Sep 24, 2023

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Been thinking about your story. Rebecca Stevens wrote an essay recently about how her white husband’s friends think she might want to have sex with them because she is a Black woman who has a white husband.

The more I think about it the more sex is messed up by oppression. People who think of themselves “ better than” think themselves entitled to the bodies of people they think inferior.

I wonder how much of what we think of as “attraction” is actually a sort predator activity.?
Likewise from the other side how much attraction is Stockholm syndrome?

I wonder if one reason I’m not attracted to men is that there is no power imbalance.

Then do power imbalances flow downhill? Do men oppress women and women oppress children? Messed up.

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Andrew Gaertner
Andrew Gaertner

Written by Andrew Gaertner

To live in a world of peace and justice we must imagine it first. For this, we need artists and writers. I write to reach for the edges of what is possible.

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