Patriarchal Head Games
By Chris Langevin | October 27, 2004While I agree with Liza Williams' main point regarding the externality of binary service-based relationships as a hindrance to the overarching objective of equi-personal concomitant sexual relationships ("Sex, Solicitation and Sororities," The Dartmouth, October 26), I believe it is incumbent upon us to delve further into her conception of the nurturance of masculinist gratification rituals cast in the sorority "framework." Clearly it is not a point of anisotropic indifference that feminine "performance" from the fellatory perspective as judged by an omnipartial male "audience" (as it were) is a hampering factor toward the concomitance of relationships; indeed it has been instrumental in bringing untold numbers of otherwise flourishing partnerships to their knees. The "objective disorder" in Williams' thinking, however, is the fallacious notion that relationships constructed on a quid pro quo oral paradigm are therefore paradigmatically unsound -- or, to put it more succinctly, that they fail to pass a "global test" of paradigmatic functionality while instead perpetuating the trope of vicissitudinal subservience in the more female of the two partners.