[male] homoerotics (was Re: Tibet)

[Alec Ramsdell]

Christopher Rhoades Dÿkema wrote:

> I wonder about this. Doesn't this sound more like
> the men who, in
> prison, make sure they aggressively penetrate other
> men rather than be
> penetrated because at least, in the absence of
> women, they thereby avoid
> the passive feminine rôle? Once out of prison, of
> course, they wouldn't
> be caught dead having any homoerotic experiences.

On a different level entirely, in addition to
correcting my mis-quote, the below alludes to
homo-homosexuality in a way that might interest you. 
 
Alec

http://gort.ucsd.edu/jhan/ER/rr.html

Richard Rorty:

I agree with Cornell that one of Derrida's central
contributions to feminism is that "he explicitly
argues that fundamental philosophical questions cannot
be separated from the thinking of sexual difference"
(Cornell 1991, 98). Indeed, I should go further and
say that Derrida's most original and important
contribution to philosophy is his weaving togther of
Freud and Heidegger, his association of "ontological
difference" with gender difference. This weaving
together enables us to see for die first time the
connection between the philosophers' quest for purity,
the view that women are somehow impure, the
subordination of women, and "virile homosexuality"
(the kind of male homosexuality that Eve Sedgwick
calls "homo-homosexuality", epitomized in Jean Genet's
claim that "the man who fucks another man is twice a
man"). Compared to this insight (which is most
convincingly put forward in Derrida's "Geschlecht I"),
the grab bag of easily reproduced gimmicks labeled
"deconstruction" seems to me relatively unimportant. 

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