I certainly identify myself as a feminist.
Even more than comparing society to a family, comparing it to a body makes an authoritarian ordering of society seem inevitable, immutable.
I'm more cautious about what I write.
AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences: suicide. Or murder.
In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
The decline of education in North America and I suppose in Western Europe makes it harder to have a common body of references.