F. Paul Wilson's Repairman Jack in Hosts on self-ownership and individual freedoms:
He made a face. "You're not a dyke.""Sure I am.""No. When I hear 'dyke' I see a fat broad in work clothes and boots with a bad haircut and a load of 'tude."She laughed. "It doesn't mean superbutch anymore. It's what we call ourselves. As Jeanette says, 'We're taking back the word.'" Or what Jeanette used to say, Kate thought as a wave of sadness brought her down. "But you're not answering the question.""Okay, the question seems to be since I lie about myself to just about everyone every day, how can you be sure I'm telling you the truth.""Not at all—""Or is it about whether I'm one of those politically correct liberal types who knee-jerks to this sort of thing?"Had she offended him?"Jack—""So let's get a few things straight, Kate. I'm not PC and I'm not liberal—I'm not conservative or Democrat or Republican either. I operate on one principle: you own your own life, and that means you're free to do anything you want with that life so long as you don't interfere with other people's freedom to live their lives. It means you own your own body and you can do anything you want to it—pierce it, fill it with drugs, set it on fire—your call. Same with sex. As long as there's no force involved it's none of my business how you get off. I don't have to approve of it because it's not my life, it's yours. I don't have to understand, either. Which, by the way, I don't."
