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The more subversive Instinct gets in proclaiming free will an illusion fostered by a rigidly repressive society, the more captive it seems to a rigidly repressive studio marketing department.
This kind of picture has one of two thrusts: It either sides with the suffocated housewife who, like Ibsen's Nora, strives to break free of a repressive patriarchal hold, or it demonizes a culture that tempts men and women to put their own gratification before their responsibilities as parents.
Indira Gandhi’s tendency toward tough authoritarianism was highlighted during the repressive state of emergency she declared in 1975, describing it as “disciplined democracy,” when she ordered mass arrests of opposition leaders who had charged her and her party with malpractice and corruption.
Pundits agreed that Clinton's remarks and China's decision to air them were bold and made up for 1) Clinton's previous timidity and 2) China's petty, repressive gestures earlier in the trip.
This particular brand of sexual doublespeak has been remarked upon before, most famously by the late French historian Michel Foucault, who, in his History of Sexuality (published in English in 1978), put forth his unexpected "repressive hypothesis": Those supposedly tight-lipped Victorians, in the course of devising rules to regulate sex and the sciences that investigate its perversions, in fact talked and wrote more about sex than anyone before them.