{"id":25059,"date":"2014-11-10T00:01:53","date_gmt":"2014-11-10T05:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=25059"},"modified":"2014-11-08T11:39:30","modified_gmt":"2014-11-08T16:39:30","slug":"qotd-the-most-dangerously-misleading-word-in-the-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2014\/11\/10\/qotd-the-most-dangerously-misleading-word-in-the-language\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: &#8220;[T]he most dangerously misleading word in the language&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>To sum up: the qualities that arouse the protective instinct are the <em>opposite<\/em> of those that attract a sex partner.<\/p>\n<p>Protector and prot\u00e9g\u00e9 are outwardly alike; sex partners are complimentary opposites. Prot\u00e9g\u00e9s are physically and mentally inferior to their protectors; sex partners are physically and mentally equals. These three sets of qualities, opposite and mutually exclusive, of prot\u00e9g\u00e9s and sex partners, determine the basic attitudes towards each, also opposite and mutually exclusive. And yet we call these profoundly different emotions by the same name: <em>love<\/em>. <em>Love<\/em> has become of necessity, then, the most dangerously misleading word in the language.<\/p>\n<p>Esther Vilar, <a href=\"http:\/\/naturalthinker.net\/trl\/texts\/Vilar,Esther\/PolygamousSex.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Polygamous Sex<\/em><\/a>, 1976.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To sum up: the qualities that arouse the protective instinct are the opposite of those that attract a sex partner. Protector and prot\u00e9g\u00e9 are outwardly alike; sex partners are complimentary opposites. Prot\u00e9g\u00e9s are physically and mentally inferior to their protectors; sex partners are physically and mentally equals. These three sets of qualities, opposite and mutually [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,16],"tags":[139,255,43],"class_list":["post-25059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotations","category-science","tag-psychology","tag-sexuality","tag-women"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-6wb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25059"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25060,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25059\/revisions\/25060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}