Reaction formation

This is a psychological term for doing exactly the opposite of what you are feeling. Psychology Wiki: "In Sigmund Freud's psychoanalytic theory, reaction formation is a defense mechanism in which anxiety-producing or unacceptable emotions are replaced by their direct opposites."

(I sometimes think that most of White Liberal behavior is reaction formation: "Don't you just love the authenticity and passion of urban hip-hop?" as a reaction formation for "Mother of God, what degenerate soul-deadening ghetto crapola trying to pass for music!" Most often, though, I despairingly think they actually buy all that shit.)


In my case, the direct opposite of celebrating the beauty of the male animal, as seen below, is a set of fantasies about the violent and messy demise of a public figure, brutal images I find myself enjoying, which provokes some anxiety even in a reprobate reactionary like Ex Cathedra. And the imagined bloodbath only begins there. So instead, enjoy this blast from the past as my defense mechanism: corn-fed ginger-blond 90's porngod Todd Gibbs aka Ethan Parker:

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