Title : "Diving Into the Subconscious of the 'Cuomosexual'/How could we have witnessed the Governor’s narcissism, bullying, and hackneyed paternalism, and found these qualities attractive? A psychoanalyst gives her take."
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"Diving Into the Subconscious of the 'Cuomosexual'/How could we have witnessed the Governor’s narcissism, bullying, and hackneyed paternalism, and found these qualities attractive? A psychoanalyst gives her take."
Ah! Perfect! This is exactly the article I'd have requested if The New Yorker had asked me What can we write for you?
I could go looking for this material myself and grope at amateur psychoanalysis, but I found this, by Lizzie Widdicombe. How absolutely pleasing to just sit back and read (and react):
[J]ust a year ago, much of blue-state America was lusting after Governor Andrew Cuomo... The erotic interest was documented in a Jezebel article—“Help, I Think I’m in Love with Andrew Cuomo???”... The term “Cuomosexual” was popularized in a song called “Andy,” by the comedian Randy Rainbow, set to the tune of “Sandy,” from the musical “Grease”....Celebrities such as Ellen DeGeneres and Trevor Noah announced their Cuomosexuality.....
... I contacted Virginia Goldner, a psychoanalyst... “He was radiating an erotized masculinity that has within it hostility and a little tenderness,” she said. “That combination of soft and hard—mostly hard, but also soft—is what so many women crave in some way,” she said.
She called it the “retrosexual part of us”—the part that was raised with the image of a “big, square” daddy/lover figure, even if we’ve never actually had one.... The harasser enjoys creating sexual tension in the workplace, but what he really likes is the psychological torment....
She quoted Henry Kissinger, noting that power is an aphrodisiac. That’s true, but it’s really “the sensation of power relative to powerlessness,” she said—power over someone else....
“We can still love those dimensions of masculinity, and ask ourselves, What are they? And how do they get corrupted?”
Yes, let's think deeply — and not just about Cuomo — about why we respond at a sexual level to displays of power. And don't start with denying that there's anything sexual about your response to power.
A bit from the Jezebel article, linked above, which is from March 2020:
Cuomo isn’t holding me hostage so much as coronavirus is, but he is the only one telling me what to do, where I can and cannot go (anywhere), who I can and cannot see (everyone), who I can and cannot listen to (President Trump, Bill de Blasio), what I can and cannot eat (anything but pasta).... [W]hen I stream his presser... I feel comforted. I feel alive. I feel protected. I feel... butterflies....
Suddenly, everyone loves Andrew Cuomo. Ben Smith, the New York Times’s new media columnist, wrote a column this week headlined “Andrew Cuomo is the Control Freak We All Need Right Now.”...
Andrew Cuomo, Dear Leader, will take care of me. He loves me. He is the only one who is here for me. He will help me get through this.
Now, that is partly satirical, but it is a confession that control feels sexually exciting — that dictators are loved.
Ah! Perfect! This is exactly the article I'd have requested if The New Yorker had asked me What can we write for you?
I could go looking for this material myself and grope at amateur psychoanalysis, but I found this, by Lizzie Widdicombe. How absolutely pleasing to just sit back and read (and react):
[J]ust a year ago, much of blue-state America was lusting after Governor Andrew Cuomo... The erotic interest was documented in a Jezebel article—“Help, I Think I’m in Love with Andrew Cuomo???”... The term “Cuomosexual” was popularized in a song called “Andy,” by the comedian Randy Rainbow, set to the tune of “Sandy,” from the musical “Grease”....Celebrities such as Ellen DeGeneres and Trevor Noah announced their Cuomosexuality.....
... I contacted Virginia Goldner, a psychoanalyst... “He was radiating an erotized masculinity that has within it hostility and a little tenderness,” she said. “That combination of soft and hard—mostly hard, but also soft—is what so many women crave in some way,” she said.
She called it the “retrosexual part of us”—the part that was raised with the image of a “big, square” daddy/lover figure, even if we’ve never actually had one.... The harasser enjoys creating sexual tension in the workplace, but what he really likes is the psychological torment....
She quoted Henry Kissinger, noting that power is an aphrodisiac. That’s true, but it’s really “the sensation of power relative to powerlessness,” she said—power over someone else....
“We can still love those dimensions of masculinity, and ask ourselves, What are they? And how do they get corrupted?”
Yes, let's think deeply — and not just about Cuomo — about why we respond at a sexual level to displays of power. And don't start with denying that there's anything sexual about your response to power.
A bit from the Jezebel article, linked above, which is from March 2020:
Cuomo isn’t holding me hostage so much as coronavirus is, but he is the only one telling me what to do, where I can and cannot go (anywhere), who I can and cannot see (everyone), who I can and cannot listen to (President Trump, Bill de Blasio), what I can and cannot eat (anything but pasta).... [W]hen I stream his presser... I feel comforted. I feel alive. I feel protected. I feel... butterflies....
Suddenly, everyone loves Andrew Cuomo. Ben Smith, the New York Times’s new media columnist, wrote a column this week headlined “Andrew Cuomo is the Control Freak We All Need Right Now.”...
Andrew Cuomo, Dear Leader, will take care of me. He loves me. He is the only one who is here for me. He will help me get through this.
Now, that is partly satirical, but it is a confession that control feels sexually exciting — that dictators are loved.
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