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| 4 | 240 | These View more quotes about range">range from the praising of an idiotic celibacy in the interests of a presumably nonexistent spirit to the genres of dirty jokes and stories, in which a vengeance is taken on the thwarted sexuality by trying to make it appear small and dirty. |
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| 4 | 237 | An entire structure of myths is then raised to protect the individual from the insight that he was, long ago, when defenseless, mutilated and crippled. |
| 4 | 238 | You are familiar with the nature of such myths, such superstructures and defense mechanisms. |
| 4 | 239 | They are many and varied. |
| 4 | 240 | These range from the praising of an idiotic celibacy in the interests of a presumably nonexistent spirit to the genres of dirty jokes and stories, in which a vengeance is taken on the thwarted sexuality by trying to make it appear small and dirty. |
| 4 | 241 | Between these two madnesses is a variety of more dangerous antisexisms, more pernicious because subtler, recrudescent Puritanisms masking themselves under the garbage of trigger rhetorics, the usage of such expressions as 'persons' and such, designed to suppress thought and enforce social conformity". |
| 4 | 242 | "But what would be the point of all this madness and cruelty?" I asked. |
| 4 | 243 | "Why do the ugly disparage beauty?" she asked. |