“She’s Kind of Like a Pet” Dani Graves (25)
Read this BBC article about the Goth who was kicked off the bus for leading his girlfriend around by a dog leash. Tell me, what kind of a community, society, and world view produced such oppressive treatment of a woman (if even symbolic oppression)? Is it the same view and practice that has given to us S&M? Now S&M is going public, out of the dungeon and onto public transit. Do you think these two learned their antics in a fundamentalist, Christian home? Do you think that this oppression is bred by anyone who thinks that we should submit to authority? By the way, I am not in favor of throwing such people off public transit. Where are my feminist friends? Are they fighting sex trafficking, the new slave trade in developing nations? I join them. But not at the expense of abandoning our own children. Our sons are growing up, calling young women their pets (not tolerated by women of the 70’s and 80’s), and leading them around like first century slaves. (Bob Herbert of the NY Times writes of the sex trafficking, the hidden slave trade of our day, “This human merchandise — whether imported or domestic — is still paraded, inspected and treated like animals.” Hey, Dani Graves - stop treating your partner like an animal!)
