You talk like queers in the U.S. are being rounded up and sent to concentration camps, when the fact is that attitudes and standards of reaction and treatment have been improving about as rapidly as anybody could expect. OK, the cops in Georgia shut down a nude play. Perhaps not right (though I don't necessarily disagree with the idea of regulating the locations of nude performances), but not exactly the crime of the century.
Meanwhile, you seem oblivious to the extreme danger of your attempt to base your schtick on nature. It is a long-established reactionary trope to argue that the only things that are just are "natural" things. This is a blatant end-run around sociology, democracy, and other vital hard-won elements of decency and rationality. It is also a close cousin of classical racism, which, as you must know, uses biological/natural claims to kick the living shit out of millions of people.
Queer physician, heal thyself.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org [mailto:lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org]
> On Behalf Of Brian Charles Dauth
> Sent: Sunday, December 12, 2004 11:34 PM
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Subject: [lbo-talk] Re: Diet Pills = Gay Babies . . . Not!
>
> Dear List:
>
> Kelley writes:
>
> > If the entire study isn't available and you haven't read it, why bother
> to
> > post an article about it and then complain about Miles' criticisms?
>
> I posted an article with the comment that I thought it was humourous. I
> objected to Miles' criticisms the same way I would have objected to
> someone
> criticizing a movie they hadn't seen. The study may be bullshit. But
> there
> was no way to determine that from the article I posted.
>
> > Maybe I'll give birth to a lezbean if I keep sniffing stripping solvent?
>
> No, but you'll probably keep believing in the dilletante notion that truth
> can be found in a university statistics class or an academic text. Truth
> is
> made every nanosecond in experienced reality. It is not to be found in
> any
> book, including the Bible.
>
> People make and re-make truth during the course of their everyday lives.
> If
> we can take this study and ally it with others and create the truth that
> queerness is natural and with that truth create justice for queers -- good
> for us.
>
> Our enemies take their created truths and oppress us. How do leftists
> respond? They hold seminars, publish incoherent texts, and fret over
> nuance. It is like The Godfather. We are at war and academics are the
> Tom
> Hagens of the left. While Tom was many good things, the one thing he was
> not was a wartime consigliere.
>
> I am sure that you, Miles and all the other academics on the list are not
> homophobic, but the academic approach is not very useful in the real world
> and allows homophobia to triumph. The pursuit/creation of academic
> truth(s) is a leisure class activity, like trying to figure out how many
> angels can dance on the head of a pin. People should be allowed to follow
> such pursuits as far as they wish and as long as they like. As you once
> said, (if I am incorrect my apologies), identity politics was a creation
> of
> the academic class for the working class. Well in the words of Daffy
> Duck:
> "Thanks for the sour persimmons, cousin."
>
> The left needs to create strategic/useful truths with which it can do
> battle.
>
> Brian Dauth
> Queer Buddhist Resiter
>
>
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