homophobia

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

Carrol wrote:
>Classical scholars are still at war over this, but some (many) argue that in
>ancient greece the division was not between straight and homo but between
>active and passive.

This ancient division seems to have survived to this day as a kind of
residual gender/sexuality ideology even in core capitalist countries,
though the dominant one has changed to the straight/homo division. This
residual ideology of 'active/passive' division allows many 'straight' guys
to have sex with other men while still feeling like 'real men,' not
'sissies.'

Yoshie