On Thu, 19 Oct 2000 kenneth.mackendrick at utoronto.ca wrote:
>
> On Thu, 19 Oct 2000 03:10:03 -0400 Yoshie Furuhashi
> <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu> wrote:
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> > as well as categories "heterosexual," "homosexual," "bisexual," etc., will
> become obsolete
>
> Departure for Mars and Venus, leaving in 15 minutes. Go figure. The
> moment the "queer as fuck" movement begins to demand subjectivity and
> rights, their categories get flushed. Another interesting correlation
> - between the growing demand for women's rights (esp. in the 70s). The
> moment that women actually achieved some degree of political
> recognition: the subjectivity upon which they declared their political
> rights was declared "dead." The Christian right would be all too happy
> to see 'homosexuality' (and heterosexuality) deemed obsolete. There
> is only one truth, after all. All contradictions must be cut off.
>
> sinister,
> ken
>
Umm...what? It is the categories of hetero/homo that make possible prejudice and discrimination carried out by the Christian right. If these categories were obsolete, the fundy Christians could no longer say "homosexuality is a sin, homosexuals are sinners". As yosh points out often about gender, we'd be better off without these categories (politically, anyway).
Miles