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The penultimate script! And the climax of the story. We'll conclude next time with the heartfelt dénouement. Only one editing phase left. I can't wait to be done with this series, haha.
Remember that this script has two speakers, the Heir and the Contact. The Contact will show up in the last script, but only briefly.
Feel free to record, monetize, and/or modify as long as you give credit.
And any sort of constructive critique or feedback is welcome!
Wordcount: 2000
Setting: The first half is spent with the listener laying in a ditch in the streets outside the summit. Then the Contact drags them to a nearby stable. Finally, the heir's public execution in an inappropriately well-appointed garden within the summit.
Summary: There you are, bleeding in a ditch. The heir is gone. Off on a fool's errand to save the King and Queen. The Republic has outplayed you all. But someone is getting closer. And they're cursing your name in a familiar voice. Maybe there is a chance to set things right. You did not come without contingencies.
(Listener's contact rushes from the summit through the streets, getting closer)
[Contact]
[Sarcastic] Sure. Just leave me behind. That's fine. Don't worry about your fellow agent or anything. The summit fucking implodes and you up and vanish. Fantastic timing. Just—
(Sees the listener) Oh shit!
(Rushes over) Hey. Hey! Can you hear me? Are you alive?
...
Heartbeat. You lucky bastard. Left bleeding in a gutter and you pull through. Eh. Mostly.
That's a lot of bloody bandages. I guess someone took pity on you. Didn't stick around though. Whoever it was, you owe them your miserable life. But I can't afford to be nice.
Come on, wake up! Don't pull this with me. I can see your eyes are open. I know you can hear me.
Rise and fucking shine!
...
Finally. Yep, yep, can we speed up the whole delirious act? We need to move. Soldiers are looking for us.
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Uh, no. I don't know what happened to you. Mainly because you abandoned me. Remember that? But I'm generous: water, bridge, you get it. Want to repay me? Then get over your flesh wound, stand up, and get moving. It's just a scratch. If you can't handle that, I will bail on you.
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An arrow? Fine. That would explain all the blood. But it doesn't matter. Last I checked you were a Dominion assassin. With that injury you could march ten miles through a blizzard. Barefoot. Try harder.
But this isn't about pain, is it? This is about morale. You're at rock bottom. Not to mention exhausted. But you had your little nap. Take your second wind and get on your feet.
Grab my hand. Up you go. There. Steady. I got your arm. Here, lean on my shoulder.
You should be thankful I came back for you.
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Why?! I'm saving your life, and you ask why? Wow. Do you not trust me? Talk about ungrateful.
Didn't I tell you before? My job is to get us—both of us—out of here alive. 'Cause when shit like this happens, we can't survive on our own. We're a team, like it or not.
Come on, there's a stable up ahead. Saw a couple horses we can steal. Just one step at a time.
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Those bandages, that wasn't you. Remember who it was? If someone knows where we are—
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The royal heir?! You didn't kill them?!
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You—ugh, no. You're right, it doesn't matter now. I didn't think the Republic could pull off a real coup. Nobody else did either, apparently. Doesn't make me feel less stupid.
There's some good news though. It's obvious we aren't to blame. When we get back home, our superiors probably won't have us killed. If we get home.
Wait... where's the heir then?
...
Ah... I get it. Found out our plan, huh? Considering the circumstances, you really are a lucky bastard. By all rights, you should have a lot more bloody holes. Looks like your unprofessional fondness for the target was returned.
Shame about the whole thing. The assassination plot, I mean. A job's a job. And aristocrats certainly don't deserve an exception. But this one was different. Your little royal might be the only noble I can believe is, you know, noble. 'Specially riding off to go die.
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No, I didn't see anything. Don't think I need to. Soldiers have been searching for any loose nobles. But there aren't any around here. If I were putting down money, I'd say the Republic finished their collection.
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I didn't say dead.
Actually, things calmed down after the initial attack. They're being all... "Republic-y" about the whole thing. Acting like they're doing the Kingdom a favor. I slipped away when their newly wed was blathering on and on about the "tragic necessity of their actions". Blegh.
All that to say, they got the King and Queen chained up. The execution won't be for a while. Not until they're good and ready. But they have the heir now. The Republic may be full of windbags, but this is an opportunity they won't waste. The royal family has about a day left to live.
(Arrive at a small stable with a couple horses)
Speaking of living, we're here. Our four-hoofed tickets to freedom.
Huh. Someone must have been in a hurry; they're saddled and ready. Doesn't bode well for their owner, but good for us. Let's go. I'll help you up.
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Quit stalling. The Republic is still hunting us.
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I'm sorry? Save who?
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No! Absolutely fucking not! We are the ones who need to be saved. And we have our exit right here. You have no obligation to rescue the heir. Your job was the exact opposite. Did you forget?
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I saved your life. You shouldn't throw it away over some bandages. Especially for someone who hates your guts now.
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You know what? I gave you three chances. I'm not staying here to die. Listen to me. We don't need to make it all the way home. Our forces are stationed nearby. All we have to do is ride 'till we reach them and then—
—What?
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Yes, Dominion troops are still in the area. You should know that. What does it matter?
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The plan's already gone sideways. Calling them in won't do any good. Remember, they were supposed to be the backup coup in case the Kingdom figured out the plan. But the Republic struck first. I don't see how bloodshed helps us here.
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Wait. Are you serious? You want our military to save the Kingdom.
This is... making a disturbing amount of sense. Let me talk through this.
I call in the cavalry to free the Kingdom from the Republic. That unifies Dominion and Kingdom against the Republic despite what our leaders think. The Dominion gets the war they want, and the Kingdom gets to make peace with one of their neighbors. And the powers will balance out...
Still sounds crazy. But it's better than the Republic controlling the Kingdom.
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There's one problem: we can only ride so fast. If the royal family dies before we return, this will all be for nothing. Even worse, we'll have a war on two fronts.
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You're staying? The blood on your chest is still wet. What are you going to do?
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(Long sigh) Fine. Save the heir. I knew you were too sentimental for this job. We need you to go all-out. If this is what it takes, do it. Cut them to ribbons.
If I run this horse ragged, I'll be back before dawn. Hopefully, with a small army in tow. That's your timeline.
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Good luck you lunatic. You better be alive when I get back, both of you. This better be love. If I did all just for you to die tragically, I swear I'll—
I'm going, I'm going!
Do your job this time!
(Contact rides off)
... ... ...
(The heir gives a speech to the Republic forces before their execution)
[Heir]
(Indignant) Very well. If my spouse says that these are my last words, I will heed the threat.
I know my voice will fall on deaf ears. A court of Republic sycophants and Kingdom traitors is hardly worthy to witness the death of a lineage. But they will serve their purpose. As will I. Willing or not.
But know this: the Kingdom will not bow to your tricks. My people will never surrender. Take the crown and they will rip it from your head. Take the throne and they will topple it. You may think you've won but rebellion will smolder under our ashes.
You posture yourselves as "liberators", yet you would kill me in front of my parents? Your cruelty betrays your fecklessness!
(The heir's spouse hits them)
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(Deep breaths) What's the matter, my love? Was execution insufficient? You needed to strike me yourself. Are you so thin-skinned, even in triumph? I can't believe I married someone so pathetic.
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Your words would sting if I had heart left to break. Let's finish this. I have nothing more to say to you all.
Mother, Father... I'm sorry.
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You needn't be shy, executioner. My neck is there for the—
(The listener swoops in, subduing the heir's spouse and the executioner)
It... it's you. What are... Did you just stab my partner?
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Not a complaint, just a question.
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You didn't kill them, did you?
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Good, a hostage will make this easier. However, we are surrounded by Republic soldiers. Did you have a scheme to survive the stalemate? An escape plan?
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The Dominion?! I... that's right! The papers said a company of soldiers were stationed nearby. It slipped my mind. You called them to aid us?
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How can I trust you? I will admit, you saved my life. But what's to say you aren't manipulating me again? I'm sick of being a pawn.
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I see. The Republic hardly needs to be framed now. And coming to our aid will require your leaders to ally with us. That... I think that would work!
One moment.
(The heir addresses the crowd)
Agents of the Republic. The execution of my family will be indefinitely postponed. Before you seek to retaliate my... my guardian has my darling spouse at the point of a knife. Furthermore, you have fallen into our trap. The unified forces of the Kingdom and Dominion will soon arrive to liberate us.
I would advise you all to surrender now.
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(Back to the listener)
What? It was only a slight exaggeration. A little fib to make this go more smoothly. See, they're cowering already. We've won. Now, keep your eye on the Republic's soon-to-be divorcée.
(Heir rushes over to their parents)
Mother, Father, are you alright? Please forgive me for returning. I know you'd prefer my escape, but I couldn't let you die. I was overwhelmed and felt like I had no one I could trust and—
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Yes, I'm fine. Shaken, but fine. I am much better now that we are all safe. Thanks to my guardian here.
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Correct, from the caravan. The one who escorted me home after my "escapade" in the capital.
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F-fond of them?! I—ahem—I must have given the wrong impression if you recall them as "the one I'm fond of". We don't have time for teasing. We must secure ourselves for when the Dominion forces arrive.
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How did I know? Oh... uh... well. It's a bit complicated.
(Deep breath) My guardian discovered a plot by the Dominion to kill me. It was to pit us against the Republic, but it turns out they did not need the help. The Dominion posted a reserve force nearby as a precautionary measure. Now they are being called to aid us instead. Is that sufficient?
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Right, we'll speak afterwards. Please, take command. I'm quite spent. If you don't mind, I'll rest over here.
(The king and queen leave)
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You have not yet assuaged all my fears of betrayal, still... thank you. I believe I treated you worse than I ought. But, to learn that you—above all others—betrayed me... and the idea of losing my parents... it was too much to bear.
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Yes, above all others. You heard what the King and Queen said. There was a reason I was so open with you on the road. And why I lied to them about your plot.
My feelings are confused and stormy. But when all of this is over, I would speak with you. I may have shielded you for now, but there is much to discuss regarding the future of our three nations.
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Good. Now... be honest. How unbecoming would it be if I kicked my traitorous spouse?
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(Sigh) You are correct. Why must it be so hard to win with grace?
I will let justice take its course. Nothing left to do now but wait. Please, keep watch over me. I am too tired to sit patiently.

u/relevant-week8940'ın karması yetmediği için ben paylaşıyorum. Hiç editlemeden sorusu şu şekilde:
Merhabalar arkadaşlar. Liseye geçtikten sonra pandemidir odur budur derken 12. sınıfa geldik. Babamın maddi durumu iyi, ben de bunu kullanarak herhangi bir yere ücretli girerim diyordum ve 12. sınıfta bir de üstüne manita yaptık. Manita beni sınava 2 ay kala siktir ettikten sonra biraz çalışmaya başladım, mühendislik yazarım diyordum. 350k yaptıktan sonra mühendislikte yazamadık, sonuç mezuna bıraktım. Çatıda bir mekan var, orada kendimi sorgularken aklıma küçüklük hayalim olan hava harp okulu geldi. Hemen hava harp istiyorum dedim, gerekli araştırmaları yaptım ama ortada 2 sıkıntı vardı. Biri taban puanı 360 olan bir bölümü kazanmam, ikincisi de kilo almam lazımdı. Hedefim bu yıl MSÜ'ye de girip gerekli puanları yapmaktı. Eylül gibi kilo almak için spora başladım. Hem spor hem de YKS'yi beraber götürecektim, fiziğimi geliştirdim, onda sıkıntı yok ama netlerim sıkıntıydı. Mart ayında MSÜ'ye girince yine bok gibi bir şey yaptım ve moralle hayallerimden vazgeçip işe başladım. Anasını sikeyim. Şimdi yine pişman oldum, işten de ayrıldım, tekrar mezuna bırakmayı düşünüyorum ve o milli savunmaya girmek istiyorum. Kararım net ve değişmez, bundan sonra netlerim ise matematiğe hakimin, LT'yi biliyorum, biraz da fizik biliyorum. Durum bu, düşünceleriniz neler?

(Français suit)
We did not know how to sell a product (something for the garden) that came with a house. People around us suggested Facebook Marketplace. We posted an ad on the platform, and this is where the nightmare began. First the account was hacked almost immediately and someone used the credit card to boost fake ads. We spotted this and cancelled it. Second, a man showed *immediate* interest in the posting and wanted to pay a deposit even though a) this is a large purchase, so it feels odd to want to pay a deposit immediately and b) you may want to see the product before making any move. Long story short, he very quickly sent an interac which we did not accept, and has been threatening my wife (poor her, first experience there) to take legal action to "force the sale," arguing that the facebook marketplace chat constituted a sale. He purchased a Neolegal demand letter and found our address (how? I don't know). The demand letter is mostly boilerplate, arguing that the Quebec Civil Code states that any agreement verbal or written, constitutes a contract. The chat looks a bit vague to me, and it mostly says "well you should come to see it before doing anything." Given the amount of scams on Marketplace, I advised her not to proceed and did not accept the Interac transfer at all.
Weirdly, this man argues that in the few hours between the ad and his claim, he undertook "large investments" to welcome the product and threatens to sue for thousands of dollars (?). There is no evidence he undertook any of the investments. No exchange of goods or services happened. This looks like a very sophisticated scam to me, but I'm curious to see what the community thinks.
Needless to say, our first and last experience with this platform.
Nous ne savions pas comment vendre un produit (quelque chose pour le jardin) fourni avec une maison. Les gens autour de nous ont suggéré Facebook Marketplace. Nous avons posté une annonce sur la plateforme, et c’est là que le cauchemar a commencé. Tout d’abord, le compte a été piraté presque immédiatement et quelqu’un a utilisé la carte de crédit pour diffuser de fausses publicités. Nous l'avons repéré et l'avons annulé. Deuxièmement, un homme a montré un intérêt *immédiat* pour l'annonce et a voulu payer un acompte même si a) il s'agit d'un achat important, il semble donc étrange de vouloir payer un acompte immédiatement et b) vous voudrez peut-être voir le produit avant. faire n'importe quel mouvement. Pour faire court, il a très vite envoyé un interac que nous n'avons pas accepté, et a menacé ma femme (la pauvre, première expérience là-bas) d'intenter une action en justice pour "forcer la vente", arguant que le chat sur Facebook Marketplace constituait une vente. . Il a acheté une mise en demeure Nelegal et a trouvé notre adresse (comment ? Je ne sais pas). La mise en demeure est pour la plupart passe-partout, arguant que le Code civil du Québec stipule que toute entente verbale ou écrite constitue un contrat. Le chat me semble un peu vague, et il dit surtout "Eh bien, tu devrais venir le voir avant de faire quoi que ce soit". Étant donné le nombre d'arnaques sur Marketplace, je lui ai conseillé de ne pas procéder et je n'ai pas du tout accepté le virement Interac.
Bizarrement, cet homme affirme que dans les quelques heures qui se sont écoulées entre la publicité et sa réclamation, il a entrepris de « gros investissements » pour accueillir le produit et menace de poursuivre en justice des milliers de dollars (?). Il n’y a aucune preuve qu’il ait entrepris l’un des investissements. Cela me semble être une arnaque très sophistiquée, mais je suis curieux de voir ce qu'en pense la communauté.
Inutile de dire que notre première et dernière expérience avec cette plateforme.

What I’m specifically asking about is whether it’s ethical to create a story where the main character is horrible, and that is evident throughout the entire story but they also happen to be a kid? My main character, Alexander O.J. Epstein de Sade, is 13 years old, but very mature for his age. The book starts out with him SAing his 44-year-old housekeeper. The scene goes on for 7 pages, but on page 6 I write two paragraphs about how SA is wrong (I wasn't sure what to write for these paragraphs so I just copied them from a Vice article). Anyway, that's how the reader will know I intended for my MC to be complicated. Is this a strong opening?
Do I make MC self aware? Do I play it safe with the gore? Say the MC likes SA and struggles with the impulses before acting on it (AND I MAKE IT OBVIOUS ITS VERY, VERY WRONG)? Like, in every SA scene (I have 34 written), there's one part where the MC says, "Oh, I know I'm doing wrong, but I can't help it." Is that going too far or is the story something that is still readable? I’m striving for realism, and people who enjoy these kinds of things exist but should it even be written about in the first place? (I've already decided the answer is yes, so it would really help me out if you could agree with me.)
Not to sound overly confident, but I am a very good writer with very good ideas for other stories which I intend on writing, but I want to push the boundaries and the audience as well. That’s only something I can do by going into unspoken territory, but then that begs the question of whether it’s right or not. I really want to make sure I do this right so that I can win the Nobel Prize for Literature. My other books are probably only going to win National Book Awards, or maybe a Pulitzer.
I’m still playing around with the whole story, nothing is concrete, but I do need multiple opinions on this rather than simply my friends and self. Also it's hard to talk to my friends, because visiting hours are only twice a week and it costs me a fortune when they call me from inside.

Title: A Falcon of Summer
Author: Lawkeeper
Rating: T
Language: English
Length: 440k words
Status: Ongoing
Link: A Falcon of Summer work
Chapter 66 Headaches and Family
Summary: At Riverrun in the one night before marching off to war with Robert Baratheon, Jon Arryn sires a son with Lysa Tully. Jasper Arryn is an untested green boy, a lord of summer, but when the king who sits on the Iron Throne commands him to hand over his wards, history repeats itself. As High as Honor!
Chapter Summary: Cersei is Cersei and is the most rational actor ever. Tommen has to take a break from the war to deal with his lovely mother. Garlan uncovers a conspiracy. And Edmure is a good man in the Kingswood and adopts a feral wolf
If your want a fic where the OC is a flawed guy like the rest of the asoiaf characters and things change from the canon line very quickly this is your story. If you want some interesting plot point changes. Heres some spoilers. Joffrey is exiled from the realm at the Trident. Melisandre believes Robert is the chosen one. Not Stannis. No War for the Five Kings. Different war is launched. Jon Snow gets a white cloak instead of a black.
Another chapter down in theory I only have 17 left(Technically 19, but being the silly guy I am I already finished two chapters out of order. One is a battle chapter which was a blast to write.) My goal is to try to finish this fic by the end of the year. Probably a fools hope (I'm just as bad as George I guess XD) I do wish sometimes I had help for this and someone could split the workload. I'd be very happy if that ever happened, but I suppose thats unlikely by this point. I just have to keep chugging along until I get to the end. I can see the end, but we still have several miles to go. Assuming every chapter is on average 5K I still have 95K of unwritten materials as a conservative estimate likely more like in the 115-120K range given most chapters are at least 6K in words.

Title: A Falcon of Summer
Author: Lawkeeper
Rating: T
Language: English
Length: 440k words
Status: Ongoing
Link: A Falcon of Summer work
Chapter 66 Headaches and Family
Summary: At Riverrun in the one night before marching off to war with Robert Baratheon, Jon Arryn sires a son with Lysa Tully. Jasper Arryn is an untested green boy, a lord of summer, but when the king who sits on the Iron Throne commands him to hand over his wards, history repeats itself. As High as Honor!
Chapter Summary: Cersei is Cersei and is the most rational actor ever. Tommen has to take a break from the war to deal with his lovely mother. Garlan uncovers a conspiracy. And Edmure is a good man in the Kingswood and adopts a feral wolf
If your want a fic where the OC is a flawed guy like the rest of the asoiaf characters and things change from the canon line very quickly this is your story. If you want some interesting plot point changes. Heres some spoilers. Joffrey is exiled from the realm at the Trident. Melisandre believes Robert is the chosen one. Not Stannis. No War for the Five Kings. Different war is launched. Jon Snow gets a white cloak instead of a black.
Another chapter down in theory I only have 17 left(Technically 19, but being the silly guy I am I already finished two chapters out of order. One is a battle chapter which was a blast to write.) My goal is to try to finish this fic by the end of the year. Proably a fools hope (I'm just as bad as George I guess XD) I do wish sometimes I had help for this and someone could split the workload. I'd be very happy if that ever happened, but I suppose thats unlikely by this point. I just have to keep chugging along until I get to the end. I can see the end, but we still have several miles to go. Assuming every chapter is on average 5K I still have 95K of unwritten materials as a conservative estimate likely more like in the 115-120K range given most chapters are at least 6K in words.

Cycle summary and priorities:
Outside of BGS another quiet week. Our expansion was not pushed.
This week we have Patreus trying to expand to Caph which we need to oppose. And Winters has Dongkum up if you want to haul.
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In the news:
Some more positive Thargoid war changes to get you swinging at the tentacled chitterers.
CG! Earth Defen(c/s)e Fleet are under attack, the Federation is being plundered by pirates! You'd have thought Jerome would know better than advertising it to all the other pirates and ne'erdowells 🤦‍♂️.
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Fortification:
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Lundji, Elycoch, Belgitan, Asetsi
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Expansion:
We have an expansion this week to Dongkum - haul away! Join our Discord to get the inside track.
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Undermining:
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Diplomatic Overview:
Aisling Duval – Hostile
Archon Delaine – Amiable
Arissa Lavigny-Duval – Hostile
Denton Patreus – Unfriendly
Edmund Mahon – Green
Li Yong-Rui – Neutral
Pranav Antal – Neutral
Yuri Grom – Unfriendly
Zachary Hudson – Ally
Zemina Torval – Unfriendly

Before diving into the poem itself, I want to explain my overall opinion on the concept for this album. While it is in a lot of ways about her relationship(s), it's also in just as many ways (if not more) about Taylor's relationship with herself, the media, the industry, and her fans.
In my opinion, one overarching theme of TTPD is the parasocial relationship these groups have to her and the well crafted PR machine that has been created for her. Throughout her career people have speculated on which relationships her songs are about despite very little confirmation from Taylor. She has made the comment in her career that fans think it's one thing because "they didn't see a picture of it, so it didn't happen." They think they know her and know what is best for her, but in reality we only see what Taylor wants us to see (Mirrorball is literally about this). But what Taylor is telling us throughout TTPD is that we DON'T always know what's going on and we absolutely DON'T get to tell her how to live her life.
Last year, when news broke that her & Matty were dating, all hell broke loose. Her fans wanted it to be ANYTHING other than a real relationship because they have crafted this persona of her and Matty did not fit into their box of who Taylor Swift is. So many of the lyrics on TTPD are exaggerated, heightened for emotional effect. Because she is feeding into the public narrative that she MUST have been crazy to date him, he MUST have been a rebound when she was in an emotional state.
(Reminder: Taylor plays with pronouns a lot. Not every HE is a bout a man. She wrote an entire song called The Man, Taylor is James in the teenage love triangle, etc. Also, more importantly, she is unreliable narrator).
Enter The In Summation poem: A satirical plead to the public to forgive her for her "bad judgement." Because they act as Judge, Jury, and Executioner of her life.
At this hearing I stand before my fellow members of the Tortured Poets Department With a summary of my findings A debrief, a detailed rewinding For the purpose of warning For the sake of reminding

• The public is the fellow members of the TPD. She had to rewind her discography to answer questions (debrief) about her life which is why so much of TTPD references previous songs/lyrics. The purpose is for cautionary advice (warning) and reminding that we do not always know what is going on behind the scenes.

As you might all unfortunately recall I had been struck with a case of a restricted humanity Which explains my plea here today of temporary i n s a n i t y

• "Restricted humanity" -- Restricted can mean, "for limited circulation and not to be revealed to the public for reasons of national security." So here she is saying, I have to hide who I really am as a person from you, I have to hide my personal life.
• "Temporary insanity" -- Because the line follows the words, "restricted humanity which explains", she is not saying that dating Matty was her being temporarily insane. She is saying me freeing myself of your expectations, thinking I could live my life how I want to, was a moment of temporary insanity.

You see, the pendulum swings Oh, the chaos it brings Leads the caged beast to do the most curious things

• A pendulum swings back & forth freely. But when she is free, it brings chaos.
• Taylor is the caged beast. She writes about herself being caged, she shows herself being in cages in a lot of her music video and tour visuals. When she does something that doesn't mirror the well crafted PR image we have of her, it's unusual (curious) to us.

Lovers spend years denying what’s ill fated Resentment rotting away galaxies we created
Stars placed and glued meticulously by hand next to the ceiling fan
Tried wishing on comets. Tried dimming the shine. Tried to orbit his planet. Some stars never align.

• She knows she cannot always be on the pedestal despite the public continuing to have these high expectations. Denying what's ill fated is that she will eventually need to come off that pedestal to live her life authentically. The galaxies we created -- the lies she showed the public and the stories they tell themselves of her. The galaxies are also her albums.
• For years she dreamed she could have both: her career and her truth. She went to lunar valleys in her mind, created a place people understood her (I hate it here). She tried to dim herself, but now realizes that the public will never be satisfied.

And in one conversation, I tore down the whole sky
Spring sprung forth with dazzling freedom hues Then a crash from the skylight bursting through Something old, someone hallowed, who told me he could be brand new

• Matty has spent his entire career being his authentic self. He knows that he will eventually say something controversial, he rejects cancel culture. But he knows his real fans will always stand by. Taylor was envious of how he lives his life and she saw the freedom she could have if she too lived her career that way. This could be a new start for her.

And so I was out of the oven and into the microwave Out of the slammer and into a tidal wave How gallant to save the empress from her gilded tower Swinging a sword he could barely lift But loneliness struck at that fateful hour Low hanging fruit on his wine stained lips

• The oven represents her slowly cooking. Her career to this point was more or less simmering in this persona she created. Her relationship with Joe kept her contained for 6 years. But the microwave cooks fast. She was ready to show us herself at a faster pace.
• She broke out of jail she felt she was in and into the tidal waves of public opinion
• The public wanted to save her (SpeakUpNow Movement anyone?) - they thought she needed saving. But they could never understand what it entails to be Taylor Swift (Try to come for my job).
• The public rejecting Matty was the low-hanging fruit or easiest thing to stop on her conquest to become her authentic self.

He never even scratched the surface of me.
None of them did.

• She is reminding us that none of this is just about one person, one man, one muse. Her name is hers alone to disgrace.

“In summation, it was not a love affair!” I screamed while bringing my fists to my coffee ringed desk It was a mutual manic phase. It was self harm. It was house and then cardiac arrest.

• The first line being the only sentence in quotes throughout this whole poem is the key to me understanding all that I am writing in this post. This is the only thing Taylor says aloud in this poem. Because what she is building towards is her own individual freedom, not one love affair. It's about her rejecting the need to constantly keep the public happy and hide the real Taylor behind bars & cages.
• Mutual manic phase - between her and the public. Self harm - she knew this would happen and this is why she has spent her career hiding herself.
• House arrest - feeling the need to keep her private life out of the public eye. Cardiac arrest - the backlash she received broke her heart.

A smirk creeps onto this poet’s face Because it’s the worst men that I write best.

• I interpret this as she is being cheeky. She smirks because she knows that all of this will go over the heads of most people and it will just be interpreted as another album where Taylor just writes about men breaking her heart.

And so I enter into evidence My tarnished coat of arms My muses, acquired like bruises My talismans and charms The tick, tick, tick of love bombs My veins of pitch black ink

• She went to war for herself, her tarnished coat of arms. She is presenting all her muses that have bruised her because she is continues to be defined by the men she dates.
• Talismans & charms - "put narcotics into all of my songs" -- giving the people what they want
• Taylor is love bombing us. All of her imagery references to the clocks (Midnights, Eras tour, Easter eggs) and her overly public relationship with Travis who is adored by the public compared to Matty.

All’s fair in love and poetry ;)

Embracing Musicality in the Lai Form**
Summary:
The lai is a poetic form with origins in medieval France. It traditionally consists of nine lines divided into three stanzas (two rhymed couplets followed by a tercet). The rhyme scheme is typically AABAABAAB, and it often explores themes of love, nature, and daily life.
Examples:

1. "Lai" by Marie de France.
2. "In the Orchard" by Ezra Pound.
3. "Morning Light" by Catherine Chandler.

Tips for Creative Writing:

• Embrace Refrain: Utilize the recurring rhyme and refrain for musicality.
  
• Focus on Imagery: Paint vivid pictures with descriptive language.
  
• Vary Themes: Lais can capture a wide range of emotions and experiences.
  

Questions for Exploration:

1. How does the rhyme scheme contribute to the lai's musical quality?
   
2. Can you identify any modern poets who have experimented with the lai form?
   

Additional Resources:

• Explore the lais of Marie de France for insights into medieval poetic traditions.
• Read modern lais by contemporary poets for a fresh perspective.

Creative Writing Prompt:
Step 1: Choose a theme or emotion for your lai.
Step 2: Determine the AABAABAAB rhyme scheme.
Step 3: Compose your nine lines, incorporating the refrain.
Example:
Beneath the boughs, where shadows play (A) Soft whispers linger, in the twilight's sway (A) A melody of leaves, in the gentle breeze (B) Nature's lai, sung by the ancient trees (A)
The sun dips low, in a fiery display (A) Golden hues dance, a farewell ballet (A) Nature's palette paints, with vibrant ease (B) A lai of evening, woven by the trees (A)
Remember: The lai's structured yet flexible form invites poets to create melodies with words.

https://sci-hub.st/10.1057/fr.1988.4 Feminist Review, No. 28, Family Secrets: Child Sexual Abuse (Spring, 1988), pp. 56-64
In the early 1970s, when a radical feminist consciousness pulled [incestuous abuse] out of the closet, we thought we were engaged in an unprecedented discovery. In fact, charity volunteers and social workers a century earlier dealt with incest cases daily, understanding them to be a standard, expected part of the caseload of a child-protective agency such as a Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. How are we to explain this historical amnesia? Like the suppression of so much women's history and feminist analysis, this hiatus was not created simply by the decline in feminism between 1920 and 1970, but by an active reinterpretation of child sexual abuse. I shudder when I think about what this meant: not only because of the incest victims rendered invisible and mute, but also because of its threat to us today, the threat that great achievements in consciousness-raising can be rolled back by powerful ideological tanks. My motives in writing a history of family violence were thus far from disinterested.[1]
Charity and social workers in the late nineteenth-century United States were familiar with child sexual abuse and knew that its most common form of abuse was intrafamilial—that is, incest. Ten per cent of the family-violence case records of Boston child-saving agencies which I sampled, starting in 1880, contained incest (Gordon and O'Keefe, 1986; Gordon, 1984). Moreover, in their upper-class way these child savers had a feminist analysis of the problem: they blamed male brutality and lack of sexual control. They could safely offer such explanations because they believed the problem to occur exclusively among the Catholic immigrant poor, whom they perceived as of "inferior stock," crowded "like animals" into urban ghettoes. Thus, ironically, the very upper-class base of child-rescue work at the time promoted the identification of problems unmentionable by standards of Victorian propriety.
Despite these class limitations, the sympathy for child victims entailed by this sensibility was one of the major achievements of the nineteenth-century feminist movement. The attack on male sexual and familial violence was often disguised in temperance rhetoric. American women's historians have recently conducted a reinterpretation of temperance, acknowledging its anti-Catholic, anti-working class content, but also identifying its meanings for women contesting the evils that alcohol created for them and their families: violence, disease, impoverishment, male irresponsibility. Moreover, the feminist anti-violence campaign had significant successes. In the course of the century wife-beating was transformed from an acceptable practice into one which, despite its continued widespread incidence, was illegal and reprehensible, a seamy behaviour which men increasingly denied and tried to hide (Pleck, 1979). Indeed, the whole movement against child abuse which began in the 1870s was a product of a feminist sensibility in several ways: first, in opposing corporal punishment and preference for gentler methods of child training; second, in challenging the sanctity of the Victorian home and authority of the paterfamilias. Most manuals of child raising by the last quarter of the nineteenth century recommended physical punishment only as a last resort (Reposter note: Of course, this would still be child abuse. "Child training" is still a dehumanizing term. They didn't go anywhere nearly far enough.), and women's legal victories in child custody created a preference for maternal rights to children for a century.
Consider a few examples of incest cases from the late nineteenth century:[2]

In 1900 a thirteen year old girl has been placed out with a family in which the wife is absent. The SPCC worker reports that the "child's bed not slept in but [the father's bed is] much tumbled. The girl cries and dreads the night." (Case #1820A)
An incest victim reports, sometime in the 1890s, that her father "told her that it was all right for him to do such things and say such things to her, for all fathers did so with their daughters. Tried to force her to go to a hotel in Boston with him once. Also advised her to go with fellows to get money. Said that if she got in trouble he would help her out.…" (Case #2058A)

There were hundreds of these stories telling us not only that [incestuous abuse] occurred, but that child-saving agencies were aware of it and taking action against it. The publicity and fund-raising efforts of the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children focussed on intrafamily "carnal abuse" directly, unembarrassed to include it as part of the need for SPCC intervention.
In the early twentieth century the child-savers' view of child sexual assault changed significantly, and incest was de-emphasized. By the 1920s, although child-protective agencies continued to meet many incest cases, a three-part interpretive transformation had occurred: the locus of the problem was moved from home to streets, the culprit transformed from father or other authoritative male family member to perverted stranger, the victim transformed from innocent betrayed to sex delinquent. In other words, the fact that child sex abuse is overwhelmingly a family problem was obscured; instead it was pictured as rape by strangers on the streets. (Anna Clark has shown how a similar reinterpretation of adult rape took place (Clark, 1987).) This is not to say that there was no extrafamilial sex abuse; there was, but, compared to incest, it was greatly exaggerated in both public and professional discourse.
Several factors contributed to this reinterpretation. The professionalization of social work tended to weaken the influence of feminists and social reformers among child protectors, even as, ironically, more women entered child welfare casework as salaried workers. After the women's suffrage victory in 1920 the organized feminist movement fragmented and weakened. During World War I venereal disease became a major problem for the armed forces (it was for this reason that condoms became widely available at this time, first issued by the Navy to sailors); servicemen were presented as victims of disease-ridden prostitutes. After the war, fears of Bolshevism, sexual freedom, and feminism combined to create a "pro-family" backlash.
The implications of this reinterpretation of child sexual abuse were pernicious for women and girls. The existence of sexual abuse became evidence requiring the constriction and domestication of girls, and their mothers were blamed for inadequate supervision if the girls were molested or even played on the streets. What was once categorized as carnal abuse, the perpetrators virtually all male, was often now categorized as moral neglect—meaning that the mother was the culprit and the behaviour of the victim was implicated. Some of the "sex abuse" was relatively noncoercive teenage sexuality. Female juvenile sex delinquency was constructed as a major social problem in early twentieth-century America, and it was a vague, victimless crime. Girls who smoked and drank, dressed or spoke immodestly, or simply loitered on the streets were convicted of sex delinquency in substantial numbers and sent to reformatories (Schlossman and Wallach, 1978). During World War I near armed-forces bases it was the servicemen who were the innocents, their girl partners the sources of pollution. Even girls who had been raped were no longer victims but temptresses. I do not mean to deny that some girls behaved in socially dangerous and self-destructive ways, nor that they sought out sexual adventure but, as many students of sex delinquents and other runaways today have observed, high proportions, quite possibly a majority of these girls, were first victims of sexual assault, typically familial. They were, so to speak, squeezed out onto the streets in search of safety and/or self-esteem from homes that were even more destructive than the street boys or men who exploited them.
Above all, this reinterpretation of child sexual abuse removed scrutiny from family and home, restoring the curtain of impunity that surrounded those sacred institutions. This was the period of the discovery of the "dirty old man," the "sex fiend," and the "pervert," the stereotypical culprit in child sex abuse cases in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s. As before, I do not wish to deny that such figures existed. Child protection agencies uncovered child prostitution, pornography rings and sex criminals who molested literally scores of children. The victims were not always brutalized; the children of the very poor—not only in the Depression but in earlier decades too—could be bribed into acquiescence and silence with a nickel, an orange, a pail of coal. However, even these nonfamilial molesters were rarely "strangers." They were often neighbours, accepted members of communities, often small businessmen or janitors who had access to private space.
There were two peak periods of hysteria about sex crimes: 1937-40 and 1949-55. The panic had official government sponsorship, led by none less that J. Edgar Hoover, head of the FBI. In 1937 he called for a "War on the Sex Criminal." Hoover's rantings about "degenerates" threatening "American childhood and womanhood" assimilated these sexual anxieties to nationalism, racism and anti-Communism. It bears notice that, in contrast to earlier periods of public agitation against sex crimes, as in campaigns to raise the age of consent in the Progressive era, women's organizations played no role in this campaign (Freedman, 1987).
Meanwhile social workers became less likely to investigate girls' typically euphemistic accusations of their fathers.

In 1935 a mother turned her daughter in for sex delinquency. Investigation reveals that the daughter, fleeing from an abusive father, who also beat his wife severely, had spent most of her time for 4-5 years with her maternal uncle and aunt. She accused her maternal uncle of molesting her steadily. However, the MSPCC physical exam indicated that she was a virgin,[3] so no action was taken. (#3555A)
A battered woman, terrified of her husband, is told by their daughter, who has become a "sex delinquent," behaving "vulgarly," that her father has criminally assaulted her. The mother says "she would speak to him." At court the police chief says he is doubtful about taking up the case as the girl's word is the only evidence the Government could produce; he would not question the father "as it would be asking [him] to incriminate himself." The daughter was committed to an institution. (#2057A)
In 1920 a mother is so fearful that her new husband will abuse her daughter (from a previous marriage) that every time she goes out she hires a babysitter to chaperone them. Yet when the daughter, now eleven, says she has been raped by a "stranger" whom she refuses to name, the social workers not only fail to question whether she might be shielding her stepfather, but decide that her accusation is not credible and brand her a delinquent—a liar, immoral, and uncontrollable. She is boarded out as a domestic. (#3085A)
In 1930 a 14-year-old girl alleges sexual abuse by her widowed father and begs to be taken out of his home. No action is taken until the father brings her to court on stubborn-child charges and she, as well as her younger sister whom she has been trying to protect are sentenced, separately, to institutions. (#3585)

In addition to references like these, in which the agencies did not investigate or prosecute, there were many others in which agency workers simply did not pick up the broad hints that girls threw out, hoping to draw attention to their plight. Social workers ignored statements like, "I asked my mother for a lock on my door." These girls were not usually bribed or intimidated into silence. Some of the recent discussion of incest emphasizes victims' fearful silence, but this evidence is based on the work of therapists, counselling incest victims years later, who have often by then reconstructed their stories on the basis of their guilt; my evidence, contemporaneous with the abuse, showed that these children were usually very active in trying to get help, more so, for example, than victims of nonsexual child abuse (Gordon, 1986).
Not only did social workers de-emphasize incest, but academic experts dismissed it as an extremely rare, one-in-a-million occurrence (Weinberg, 1955). Psychoanalytic and anthropological interpretations, associated respectively with Freud and Levi-Strauss, attributed to incest taboos a vital role in the development of civilization; this logic brought with it the assumption that these taboos were effective and that incest was, in fact, rare; but in terms of impact on treatment of actual cases, Freudian thought did not so much cause social workers to deny children's complaints and hints about sexual mistreatment as it offered categories with which to explain away these complaints. As Boston psychiatrist Eleanor Pavenstedt commented in 1954:

Most of us have trained ourselves to skepticism toward the claims of young girls who maintain they have been seduced by their fathers… We must ask ourselves whether our tendency to disbelief is not in part at least based on denial. The incest barrier is perhaps the strongest support of our cultural family structure, and we may well shrink from the thought of its being threatened. (Pavenstedt, 1954)

So did the dominant sociology of the family, which inverted Levi-Strauss's functionalism to prove that the incest taboo was operative because it had to be. For example, "No known human society could tolerate much incest without ruinous disruption" (Gebhard, Gagnon, Pomeroy and Christenson, 1965: 208; Davis, 1949; Bell and Vogel, 1963). The few nonfeminist historians to study incest replicated that error by studying public beliefs about incest, not behaviour (Wohl, 1979; Strong, 1973).
The rediscovery of [incestuous abuse] in the 1970s was, then, merely a reinterpretation, and it did not come quickly. Nonsexual child abuse was resurrected as a social problem in the 1960s in a movement led by physicians but stimulated by the influence of the New Left, with its sympathy for youth and critique of authority and the family. Without pressure from feminists, [incestuous abuse] first reappeared as gender-neutral. Indeed, the very classification of all forms of intrafamily sexual activity as [incestuous abuse] obscures the meanings of these behaviours. For example, sibling sexual activity, or sex between other relatives of approximately the same age, is extremely common, difficult to identify and not necessarily abusive. Mother-child incest is extremely rare and, in my findings, more often than father-child incest, associated with adult mental illness; by contrast incestuous fathers have extremely "normal" profiles (Gordon and O'Keefe, 1984; Herman, 1981). (Reposter note: I am skeptical about these two claims. Maternal CSA is significantly rarer than paternal CSA, yes, but I doubt that it's "extremely" rare, and an analysis of adult supremacy as an axis of oppression intersecting with misogyny clarifies this. I am also skeptical of all pathologization and saneism-inflected broad claims about abuser psychology. I have reason to believe she and her sources were biased by heterosexism in reaching this conclusion. In contrast, youth liberation feminists would emphasize the adultism, domestic power, and authoritarian motives in an intersectional manner.) Yet many child abuse experts throughout the 1970s ignored these gender differences (Kempe, 1980; Money, 1980). Others found ingenious ways of explaining away actuality with speculation about possibility. Thus social worker Kate Rist argued that "society has created a stronger prohibition against mother-son incest" because "it is most likely to occur. This has led to the intriguing situation in which father-daughter incest appears to have a lower natural probability of occurrence, is therefore less strongly prohibited, and in practice occurs more often" (Rist, 1979; 682).
Historians do not usually like to speak of the "lessons of history," as if she were some objective, finally definitive schoolteacher. But in many years of work at the craft, I have never come across a story that so directly yields a moral. The moral is that the presence or absence of a strong feminist movement makes the difference between better and worse solutions to the social problem of child sexual abuse; more, that the very same evidence of sexual abuse will be differently defined in the presence or absence of that movement. Without a feminist analysis, evidence of child sexual abuse means that danger lies in sex perverts, in public spaces, in unsupervised girls, in sexually assertive girls. There are few ironies more bitter than the fact that rape of children—that most heinous of crimes—has also been the crime most drenched in victim-blaming. As with adult rape, child sexual abuse without feminist interpretation supplies evidence and arguments for constricting and disempowering children.
Such a reinterpretation arose again in the United States in the mid-1980s, a reinterpretation aided, of course, by the real and increasing incidence of deranged killers attacking strangers. In the school year 1984/85 my then second-grade daughter was taught three separate programmes in her classroom about how to react to sexual abuse attempts, all of them emphasizing strangers, and all of them gender-neutral. The most publicized sexual abuse cases have concerned daycare centres, and often female teachers, although daycare centres remain, on the whole, among the safest environments for children. The statistics about child sexual abuse remain what they were a century ago: the most dangerous place for children is the home, the most likely assailant their father. Similarly a panic about missing children not only exaggerated their numbers a thousandfold, but completely misstated the source of such "kidnappings": neglecting to mention that noncustodial parents are overwhelmingly the main kidnappers; and that teenage runaways, often from abusive homes, are overwhelmingly the majority of the missing children.
What then is the best policy? My argument should not be taken as an implicit call for de-emphasizing the problem. On the contrary. The children's educational programmes and pamphlets have strengths, particularly in so far as they offer assertiveness training for children: if it feels uncomfortable, trust your judgement and say no; scream loud and run fast; tell someone. Of course it is difficult and inadvisable to sow distrust of fathers, particularly because the more intimate fathers are with children, the more responsibility they have for children, the less likely they will be to abuse them sexually. (Reposter note: I get what she's trying to say here, but this is phrased poorly IMO. Sowing distrust is fine. If it's genuinely unjustified, then the problem will resolve itself.) However, education for children should contain a feminist and an anti-authoritarian analysis: should discuss the relative powerlessness of women and girls, and praise assertiveness and collective resistance in girls; should demystify the family and even discuss that ultimately tabooed subject, economic power in the family. Education for boys must be equally brave and delicate. Boys are children too, and often victimized sexually, but they are also future men, and school age is not too early to ask them to consider what's wrong with male sexual aggression, to teach them to criticize the multiple and powerful cultural messages that endorse male sexual aggression.
Probably the most important single contribution to the prevention of [father-daughter] incest would be the strengthening of mothers. By increasing their ability to support themselves and their social and psychological self-esteem, allowing them to choose independence if that is necessary to protect themselves and their daughters, men's sexual exploitation could be checked. In the historical incest cases I sampled, one of the most consistent common denominators was the extreme helplessness of mothers—often the victims of wife-beating themselves, they were often ill or otherwise isolated, they were the poorest, the least self-confident and the least often employed of mothers in these case records. This is not victim-blaming; their weaknesses were not their fault, but part of the systematic way in which male supremacy gives rise to [father-daughter] incest. It was a gain that wife-beating and [father-daughter] incest have become more criminalized, but we cannot expect women to prosecute aggressively if their prospects for single motherhood are so bleak.
Moreover, women's very subordination often contributes to making them child abusers and neglecters. Although women do not usually abuse children sexually, in these case records they were responsible for approximately half the nonsexual child abuse (the same proportion they occupy in many contemporary studies). Unfortunately, feminists have avoided women's own violence towards children and analysed family violence in terms of stereotypical male brutality and female gentleness. Women's violence should not be regarded as a problem that will somehow weaken our feminist claims; on the contrary, these claims should not rest on assumptions of women's superiority […]. Women's mistreatment of children also needs an analysis of the damages caused by the sexual division of labour and the pattern of women's exclusive responsibility for child-raising. In the US, too, the rather middle-class radical feminist groups never made issues of social services a political priority, although such services are fundamental to women's ability to resist violence, to protect their children, and to parent better themselves.
This is not to say that a good feminist line will solve the problems of child sexual abuse, especially not where the abuse has already occurred. Like everyone else, feminists who deal with policy or individual cases must wobble through many contradictions. For example: the victimization is real, but the tendency to exaggerate its incidence and to produce social and moral panics needs to be resisted. The problem emerges from the powerlessness, the effective invisibility and muteness of women and children, especially girls, but the adult anxiety has led to children's false accusations, and children's sufferings will not be corrected by eroding the due process rights and civil liberties of those accused. Child sexual abuse needs a political interpretation, in terms of male power. However, the prosecution of culprits—however necessary—and the breaking up of families that may result do not always benefit the child victims. Especially if they are incestuous, sex abuse cases have something of the tragic about them, because once they arise, tremendous human damage has already occurred, and a politically correct analysis will not ease the pain. Still, that analysis, situating the problem in the context of male supremacy in and outside the family, is the only long-term hope for prevention.
Notes
Linda Gordon is Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin/Madison. She is the author of Woman's Body, Woman's Right and the forthcoming book on family violence noted below.
[1] My book, Heroes of Their Own Lives: The History and Politics of Family Violence, is forthcoming from Viking/Penguin US in early 1988. References to my sources and more information on my research methodology can be found there.
[2] These and other excerpts are from case records of Boston, Massachusetts, child-protection agencies (see Gordon, 1988).
[3] The standard response to a sex abuse allegation was to look at the condition of the hymen (Gordon, 1988).
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