read the rest of the site and get back to me.
compelled issue: you're missing the point.
Kelley
>Kelley writes:
>
> > Why do glbt activists feel compelled to frame their sexuality in what
>is, ultimately, a het[ero]sexist frame in which one's sexuality is natural,
>biological, given, outside of the social?
>
>1. What makes you say they are compelled to do so? Why can't it be that
>they chose to do so or that this is the way they apprghend their sexuality?
>
> > Why do they feel that this is the only way to present the issue on the lit
>they write
>
>Who says it is the only way?
>
> > Why this political strategy that asks for 'acceptance' and tolerance rather
>than a fucking change in a social system that demands that sexuality be
>framed in this way, as either/or.
>
>Maybe because they feel that this is the most effective means to diminish
>suffering.
>
>I think it is much better to view humans as animals with a sexual component,
>demonstrated by the possession of genitalia. Accepting this as a ground, the
>question them becomes what are the ways to deploy this genitalia that cause
>suffering and what are the ways to deploy it that do not. Then the state of
>normativity is reduced to that which harms and that which does not.
>
>What compels people to think otherwise is the Western Abrahmaic discourse
>of self. If you abandon that you solve many of your problems. But most
>people
>are unwilling to be this radical so they keep trying to reform and correct a
>discourse that is flawed from the get go.
>
>Mike B. writes:
>
> > I'm tyring to convey a social dynamic which, I think, explains one
>big reason why class consciousness remains so weak after more than
>a hundred years of rational explanation, millions of leaflets, countless
>demonstrations, volumes of literature, thousands of speeches and
>endless meetings.
>
>So long as people cling to the Western/Abrahamic notion of self, class
>consciousness will not arise. The two are diametrically opposed to each
>other.
>
>Brian Dauth
>Queer Buddhist Resister
>
>
>
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