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Gender Studies 2: Boogaloo

Every once in awhile, some isolated rural hollow births a person with actual talent in a sea of dullards and chuds. You've found a great example. That may be the best piece of real-life dirty realism I've read since I took a short stories class as an elective at MTU.

Dorothy Allison FTW. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Allison


Two or three things I know, but this is the one I am not supposed to talk about, how it comes together —sex and violence, love and hatred. I’m not ever supposed to put together the two halves of my life — the man who walked across my childhood and the life I have made for myself. I am not supposed to talk about hating that man when I grew up to be a lesbian, a dyke, stubborn, competitive, and perversely lustful.

“People might get confused,” a woman once told me. She was a therapist and a socialist, but she worried about what people thought. “People might imagine that sexual abuse makes lesbians.”

“Oh, I doubt it.” I was too angry to be careful. “If it did, there would be so many more.”
 
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