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Naomi wolf feminist1/14/2024 ![]() ![]() And at the end of his life, to advocate against the laws that discriminated against them so severely." "And his whole life, Symonds, all he wanted to do as the center of being a writer and a critic and a poet and a lover, I would say, was to tell the truth as he saw it about the beauty and nobility of love between men and sex between men. But the book is also an ode to 19th-century author John Addington Symonds (before), who Wolf argues played a significant role in the formation of modern ideas about sexuality and identity. Outrages traces the creation of these laws that granted the state new rights in regulating different types of bodies and bodily functions. When the state decides that your body is wrong and starts to legislate about it.it creates a context for stripping away protectors to due process, to equal rights, to just being an equal member of the community."įurthermore, when a type of body is held up by the state as "an object of hatred and contempt," it gives permission for violence to follow, she says: "Hatred has death rates even in an advanced society where you're not supposed to kill." "They absolutely affect all of us.because when the state gets to say what your body can do, what you can do based on your body, that is a gigantic breach of personal autonomy and individual freedom. "Bathroom laws are absolutely not trivial or marginal or only affecting people who are gender-nonbinary," Wolf notes.
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