{"id":164,"date":"2018-02-24T16:16:27","date_gmt":"2018-02-24T21:16:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/queertheory\/?p=164"},"modified":"2018-02-24T16:16:27","modified_gmt":"2018-02-24T21:16:27","slug":"jm-week-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/queertheory\/uncategorized\/jm-week-6\/","title":{"rendered":"JM Week 6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/queertheory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/darko4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-165\" src=\"http:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/queertheory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/darko4-300x191.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"191\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/queertheory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/darko4-300x191.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/queertheory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/darko4.jpg 575w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The image above is of Jim Cunningham, a fictional highly conservative motivational speaker in the film\u00a0<em>Donnie Darko<\/em>. \u00a0His ideology separates the world simply into love and fear, labelling premarital sex and presumably any other type of sex besides the &#8220;essential&#8221; married heterosexual couple&#8217;s sex as a product of fear (Rubin). \u00a0The fact that he speaks at middle and high schools displays the administration&#8217;s fear of &#8220;sexually deviant&#8221; students corrupting an otherwise pure institution.<\/p>\n<p>Adding asexuality as a consideration into this ideology, I would think Cunningham&#8217;s response to an asexual student would be something similar to Dr. House&#8217;s (Przybylo). \u00a0It certainly does complicate the matter of all sex outside of marriage being a product of fear. \u00a0If there is no desire for sex, there is no risk of sexual deviancy. \u00a0However, the very absence of sexual desire may be seen as deviancy in the eyes of a character such as Cunningham.<\/p>\n<p>Citations:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/learn.rochester.edu\/webapps\/blackboard\/execute\/content\/file?cmd=view&amp;content_id=_1341285_1&amp;course_id=_30057_1\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Rubin, Afterward to Thinking Sex<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/learn.rochester.edu\/bbcswebdav\/pid-1341279-dt-content-rid-5359572_1\/courses\/GSW212.2018SPRING.26837\/Przybylo%20Introducing%20Asexuality.pdf\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Pryzybylo, Introducing asexuality, unthinking sex<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Image from:\u00a0http:\/\/www.patrickswayze.net\/Movies\/darko.htm<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The image above is of Jim Cunningham, a fictional highly conservative motivational speaker in the film\u00a0Donnie Darko. \u00a0His ideology separates the world simply into love and fear, labelling premarital sex and presumably any other type of sex besides the &#8220;essential&#8221; married heterosexual couple&#8217;s sex as a product of fear (Rubin). \u00a0The fact that he speaks &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/queertheory\/uncategorized\/jm-week-6\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;JM Week 6&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-link"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/queertheory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/queertheory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/queertheory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/queertheory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/queertheory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/queertheory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":166,"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/queertheory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions\/166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/queertheory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/queertheory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lzigelyte.digitalscholar.rochester.edu\/queertheory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}