I don't wanna get into the territory of sexual pathology as politics, but Rand apparently had some kind of submission and/or rape fetish that probably leaked into her general worldview
Internalized misogyny is a fuck. Rand wrote a lot in Atlas Shrugged about it somehow being empowering for women to “allow” themselves to be owned by men.
If you don’t reconcile or accept your fetishes / sexuality, it will absolutely come out in random unhealthy ways that are extremely obvious to everyone else.
As someone who has read Atlas Shrugged, yeah, she does. Like, it's not even subtle. Every sex scene in that book is gross. And apparently Fountainhead is worse? What a world.
I don't wanna get into the territory of sexual pathology as politics, but Rand apparently had some kind of submission and/or rape fetish that probably leaked into her general worldview
Internalized misogyny is a fuck. Rand wrote a lot in Atlas Shrugged about it somehow being empowering for women to “allow” themselves to be owned by men.
If you don’t reconcile or accept your fetishes / sexuality, it will absolutely come out in random unhealthy ways that are extremely obvious to everyone else.
It's like she's the evil mirror universe version of William Moulton Marston.
As someone who has read Atlas Shrugged, yeah, she does. Like, it's not even subtle. Every sex scene in that book is gross. And apparently Fountainhead is worse? What a world.