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| 14 | 171 | They are flowers and, it View more quotes about seems">seems, lack the senses which would enable them to understand such things as hungers and storms. |
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| 14 | 168 | Similarly, an attempt is made, through such things as verbal abuse and ridicule, to make individuals with truly powerful sexual drives succumb to irrational guilts and shames. |
| 14 | 169 | "True persons," which is a euphemism for conformists to the social norms, are supposed to be "above sex," or, at least, to recognize its "relative unimportance," or to understand that it may be acceptable, if at all, only at some time, or in some "place," or other, which is never clarified. |
| 14 | 170 | That a given individual of strong passions could scream with the need for sexual release is something that they cannot understand or which, somehow, terrifies them. |
| 14 | 171 | They are flowers and, it seems, lack the senses which would enable them to understand such things as hungers and storms. |
| 14 | 172 | Buttercups and lions will perhaps always be mutually unintelligible to one another. |
| 14 | 173 | Most simply, perhaps, sexuality is regarded by the Waniyanpi as being inimical to Sameness, as being subversive of the Identity thesis so essential to its madness. |
| 14 | 174 | Too, in an interesting concession to putative sexual difference, sexuality, by the Waniyanpi, is regarded as being demeaning to women. |