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" Just as modern Westerners caricature all non-Western societies as grotesquely sexually repressed and stunted, so nineteenth-century whites assumed that non-Western societies were too promiscuous. In both cases, the desire is nothing to do with the true knowledge and understanding of another culture, and it’s not even anything to do with sex. It is about domination of the other. "

Rafia Zakaria , Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption


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Rafia Zakaria quote : Just as modern Westerners caricature all non-Western societies as grotesquely sexually repressed and stunted, so nineteenth-century whites assumed that non-Western societies were too promiscuous. In both cases, the desire is nothing to do with the true knowledge and understanding of another culture, and it’s not even anything to do with sex. It is about domination of the other.