Life On the Rocks
The Fairy Tale of One Who Went Forth to Learn Fear

I guess the pussy hats were a real eye opener for me. I mean, come on, who thinks wearing your genitals on your head is anything but making yourself look like the biggest fool on earth?
I felt sorry for the people who wore these hats. But this new candle put out by Gwyneth Paltrow with her vagina scent finally made me see the obvious: progressives, liberals, leftie fanatics all share the inability to feel sexual shame. This is not a minor character flaw. There is even a fairy tale that eloquently and clearly shows why this is fatal to sexuality and sexual satisfaction.
The fairy tale, “One Who Went Forth to Learn Fear”, is the story of a young man whose father wants him to make something of himself, but his reply is that he’d like to learn to shudder, which is something he doesn’t comprehend at all.
He goes off on many horrible, gory, gruesome adventures showing his superhuman strength and courage, but still nothing makes him shudder. My son adored this fairy tale and laughed out loud as the fairy tale hero endures each more horrifying and gory adventure after another, yet still he could not learn to shudder.
The hero’s bravery is rewarded by the King with marriage to his daughter, and though the hero is very fond of his wife, he still cannot shudder…. Until one night when he is in bed, his wife pours cold water and minnows over him causing him to shudder. Now he is happy and grateful to his wife because he has learned to shudder.
“The hero of this story could not shudder due to repression of all sexual feelings—as demonstrated by the fact that once sexual fear was restored to him, he could be happy.”
If you can’t feel a sense of shame or blush in embarrassment, it’s a pretty good guess that you are totally out of touch with your own sexuality. I rest my case. Libs are completely sexually repressed, no matter how much they act out and do weird stuff trying to learn to shudder. Years of therapy.... you know what I mean.
(Quote is from THE USES OF ENCHANTMENT by Bruno Bettelheim.