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Eli Clare

#abuse | and I love how nuts this passage drives people and how similar all the things they say about it are. they all essentially boil down to, “No, sometimes abusive people are mean because they enjoy it, because it feels good to them, because it gives them genuine pleasure.” And they say these things to me with the air of an extremely weary and battlescarred veteran trying to explain the way the world works to an infant. And it’s wild because that’s what the essay’s about— the questions you ask once you begin to explore why someone has drives like that. The stuff that comes up immediately after correctly identifying someone as the kind of person who really does enjoy domination and harm.

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