The Christian Right won't be happy with the obsolescence of categories of gender, sexual orientation, etc. Since they lost the Soviets as the Evil One against God & the American Way, they have concentrated on trying to swim against the current, save America from homos & abortionists, & return America to the sexual ethic of procreation as duty. Their efforts are doomed, though; at this stage of the history of capitalism, the heartland of accumulation can't return to the ethic that existed before the rise of urbanization, mass production, mass consumption, (sub)nuclear families, fewer or no children, women of all classes (not just of the classes of slaves & workers) having paid employment, single adults living alone or cohabiting with one or more individuals outside the kin network, etc. Try as they might, they will never be able to resurrect the agrarian America based on white small-holders' racial republicanism.
At 5:09 PM +0100 10/19/00, James Heartfield wrote:
>But I take Ken's point that one wouldn't want to abolish homosexuality
>on the basis of denying it, only to remove the oppression concomitant
>upon its characterisation. In that way we could never truly transcend
>the distinction but on the basis of realising it.
Jim, you overestimate Ken's political intelligence. :)
Ken has too much of his working capital invested in the psychoanalytic stocks -- he doesn't like to see his investment melt away in the burst of psycho-babble.
Yoshie