by Joe Weil Sexuality
I don’t believe in “blessings” in disguise. I don’t believe that all that doesn’t kill me, strengthens me. I believe I was murdered emotionally. I believed that an already severe sadness was aggravated by being taunted relentlessly. This kid who was outed without his permission, who was exposed for the “entertainment” value of the reality TV culture is not merely an instance of gay bashing. He is a test of our failure not to torture. He is a victim of our pro-exposure, lack of empathy, sociopathic contempt for privacy or kindness. I keep his picture on my desk. I look at him every day.
Tagged as: demonizing, Outing, Tyler Clementi
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by Joe Weil Aesthetics
There is an inwardness so vast, so total, that it has a true integrity—not the pretentiousness of artistic temper, not the vanity of professional mysticism, not the neurosis of social anxiety disorder, but a forthrightness, an honorable, hourly withdrawal from the world that seems, for lack of a better word—ecstatic.
Tagged as: Browning, Catholicism, ecstasy, Emily Dickinson, Harold Bloom, Joe Weil, Mysticism, mystics, Poem 258, sexuality, synesthesia, Theresa of Avila
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