Ellen looks at you with wide blue eyes, but cracks a smile. "Typical small town mentality..." she sighs.
Huh?
She explains that the USA is built on certain "social constructions" of sex and race that benefit white men like her father, or you. "You expect me to feel ashamed, but that's a conditioned response. That's not necessarily the real me."
"So this is a good thing?" you venture.
"It's beyond good and evil, it's subsersive!" she explains. "Look at this photo. Look at the defiance in my eyes, the slight smile on the sides of my mouth. I may be a cocksucker, but I'm an IRONIC cocksucker."
You're not following.
She sighs. "You're trapped in a white-black, virgin-whore dictotomy. Look, last night I was ordered to come over and suck some guys off while they drank beer and played XBox. That seems to entrench certain gender roles, but not when you consider my complicency in my own treatment! Particularly where a white girl serves black masters: it's a reversal of our national narrative!"
So this is a women's lib thing?
Ellen continues, "I have some other pictures that take it to the extreme: where I'm tied up and being gangbanged. But it throws the whole question of morality into question! And the guys call me slut, whore, whatever. But they're conditioned that way, to want what I can offer. So they're not fully responsible, either. It's a media thing."
Postmodernism makes your head hurt.
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