Re: Big gay essay
Posted by Yer Humble Host on 7/27/2006, 6:11 pm, in reply to "Re: Big gay essay"
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Agreed. We have this nagging tendency to stereotype and "group" ourselves even as we complain about others doing so. We manage to be offended when religious conservatives make invalid assumptions about us as a group, but it's just fine when we do it to ourselves. Maybe it's just a natural human tendency to oversimplify.
--Previous Message--
: The analogy I've used with myself
: is that personality has many
: hundreds of different dimensions,
: and the gay/straight axis is but
: one of them. I find our society's
: obsession with classifying people
: along it oppressive.
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: --Previous Message--
: I had lots of reactions to your
: essay, most of which I think I'd
: better address at my own site
: someday. One question for now,
: though: how can sexual orientation
: be politically neutral when
: discrimination based on that
: factor is alive and well? Doesn't
: the fact of that discrimination,
: and that "enemies of sexual
: freedom must be fought off,"
: make sexuality political?
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