The idea that the reader is important enough to me that I'd tailor my words to either please or offend them always seems amusingly alien to me.
Jim GoadIn a perverse way, it's very patriarchal to think that women can't be malicious or violent.
Jim GoadYou have to be careful because those feelings and bitterness can take over and consume in a bad way.
Jim GoadHomosexuality is genetically hardwired but race and gender are only ideas. OK. Just trying to keep up.
Jim GoadI believe "human sexuality" is one of the most ridiculous aspects of being a human, and here I was, facing publications whose prevailing editorial slant sought to portray our basic rutting instincts as something "ennobling" and "empowering," to depict women who were fundamentally whores and predominantly unstable as "sex workers" and "goddesses."
Jim Goad