[lbo-talk] sick perversions

Michael Dawson MDawson at pdx.edu
Mon Sep 27 16:44:16 PDT 2004


Yoshie: "Curious about where the un-attributed quotations come from, I Googled the Net, and I found the source of the above quotations to be <http://www.cannibalholocaust.net/yamamomo.htm>, the official website of a horror film _Cannibal Holocaust_ <http://www.cannibalholocaust.net/exhibition.htm>. To present what's in _Cannibal Holocaust_ as facts about the Yanomano is like to present what's in _The Exorcist_ as facts about Iraq."

Your mind is quite interesting, Yoshie. You think you've shot me down. In so doing, however, your closed-mindedness leads you to forget what point I was making: that it's total BS to say that psychological health was built into kinship societies, and that references to them prove nothing whatsoever about the ethical and health status of homosexuality, which is 100 percent the same as heterosexuality. I quite doubt you believe that the original poster's claim to the contrary was valid. So why are you wasting your time on my source?

Whatever. The real problem with your attempted "ha-ha!," of course, is that the information from the horror movie site is true, as even you must surely know.

How's this for a more respectable source?:

"All observers who have ever been in contact with [the Yanomamo] agree that they are one of the most aggressive, warlike, and male-oriented societies in the world. By the time a typical Yanomamo male reaches maturity, he is covered with the wounds and scars of innumerable quarrels, duels, and military raids. Although they hold women in great contempt, Yanomamo men are always brawling over real or imagined acts of adultery and broken promises to provide wives. Yanomamo women are also covered with scars and bruises, mostly the result of violent encounters with seducers, rapists, and husbands. No Yanomamo woman escapes the brutal tutelage of the typical hot-tempered, drug-taking Yanomamo warrior-husband. All Yanomamo men physically abuse their wives. Kind husbands merely bruise and mutilate them; the fierce ones wound and kill."

Marvin Harris, _Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches: The Riddles of Culture_, Vintage Books, 1974.



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