G O D C L U B

So, I am watching a rerun of Oprah from september 2008 right now and Elizabeth Smart and her family are on the show talking about her abduction in 2002 that lasted over a year. (Remember Elizabeth Smart? She was that stereotypical pretty white rich girl that was kidnapped and forced to be the second wife of the dude who kidnapped her. Her kidnapping, especially when she was found, was all sensationalized, especially because she was a "pretty" white girl that was forced to wear a hijab by her kidnapper, which just added an orientalist "white slavery" scare to the story.) Anyways, her family is on Oprah right now and all I can think about is how HER FATHER IS SUCH A QUEENY BOTTOMY FAGGOT!!! See for yourself:








WHAT A QUEEN!

Anyways, the Oprah show is so fucked up for this episode. It basically, in my interpretation, focuses on how children must be saved, especially white children, even more so for girls, and their sexuality is LACK, non-existent. Their only subject position can be "non-sexual, potentially-victimized children." PLEASE. Not to say that child sexual assault doesn't happen (it is high but it a majority of the time happens within the family) but the continuous idea that children are constantly "potential victims" (and the children who could be are usually idealized as white) by phantasmic "child predators" is fucked up for a few reasons, a) it constructs and fosters the idea that children have no agency because they are perpetually seen/constructed as "potential victims," which is a passive, one dimensional formation and b) the subtext of the discourse constructs them as non-sexual beings and infers that any sense of sexuality (especially desire for an "adult") is wrong and non-childlike and ultimately seen as reflective of the failures of the parent and/or predatoriness of the adult, which the desire is deployed towards/for. There are also other issues with this that delve deeper into race, gender, and adult/child sexuality that I'm not gonna get into for the sake of keeping this short. But anyways, back to my primary point:

That father is such a "FAYe" Dunaway if you know what I mean.