At 12:57 PM 9/5/96, Malcolm Dunnachie Thompson wrote:
* 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.
Do I sense that underlying both sides is a notion that what is "natural" is
"right"? Otherwise, why does it matter, since it is all discursive anyway?
:)
Pardon the naive, non-philosophic quality of this little note, but some
people do have to live in a (discursive?) world in which people are born,
live, suffer and die - maybe so that there can be a discourse about it?
* 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.
Do I sense that underlying both sides is a notion that what is "natural" is
"right"? Otherwise, why does it matter, since it is all discursive anyway?
:)
Pardon the naive, non-philosophic quality of this little note, but some
people do have to live in a (discursive?) world in which people are born,
live, suffer and die - maybe so that there can be a discourse about it?