queers

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

Frances Bolton wrote:
>So we have sad, sentimental stories, and we have ethnocentrism. So, we can
>assume that the only sad, sentimental stories that will be heard by
>liberals are those that will not challenge the bourgeois liberal beliefs.
>To return to the example of gays wanting to be heard by the dominant het
>culture, they would, according to Rorty, have to tailor their stories to
>liberal tastes. Stories of "suffering AIDS victims" would fly, stories of
>fucking around in the Rambles would not. So, which story do you tell?
>Obviously, you tell the story the liberals will appreciate, and
>marginalize yourself in the process. I'm giving a paper on this very
>topic in a couple of weeks, so I could go on and on, but I'm going to stop
>myself now.

I'm interested in your paper. Perhaps you can post it here? I think you
also earlier mentioned Nancy Fraser's critique of Habermas in another
thread. Do you draw on her ideas in your critique of Rorty?

BTW, I am not male.

Yoshie