>
> Oh the conceptual gymnastics people will put themselves through in order
> to install heterosexuality as the "natural". And all to avoid the issue
> of doing nasty things with their bums.
>
> "Compulsory heterosexuality," anyone?
>
>
Bravo, this is exactly the point that Butler and Foucualt are trying to
make with thier theories of "sex as social construction". They want
us to quit imagining heterosexuality as "normal", as opposed to
homosexuality as "abnormal", and to start viewing each as two forms
of sexuality that simply are. To view them as things which simply are,
without value judgement, thay ask us to imagine sex in purely social
constructivist terms, to suspend our disbelief, in order to think
of sexuality in a different light. Don't take them so damned literally, and
start thinking of thier efforts as political, rather than as an attempt
to expalin sex as a matter of scientific fact. I do acknowledge that if
one finds thier physical explanation of sex totally unbeleivable, then
thier political projects appear to exist without an adequate foundation in
reality. Such is the realm of politics.
> Oh the conceptual gymnastics people will put themselves through in order
> to install heterosexuality as the "natural". And all to avoid the issue
> of doing nasty things with their bums.
>
> "Compulsory heterosexuality," anyone?
>
>
Bravo, this is exactly the point that Butler and Foucualt are trying to
make with thier theories of "sex as social construction". They want
us to quit imagining heterosexuality as "normal", as opposed to
homosexuality as "abnormal", and to start viewing each as two forms
of sexuality that simply are. To view them as things which simply are,
without value judgement, thay ask us to imagine sex in purely social
constructivist terms, to suspend our disbelief, in order to think
of sexuality in a different light. Don't take them so damned literally, and
start thinking of thier efforts as political, rather than as an attempt
to expalin sex as a matter of scientific fact. I do acknowledge that if
one finds thier physical explanation of sex totally unbeleivable, then
thier political projects appear to exist without an adequate foundation in
reality. Such is the realm of politics.