Plato puts forth this myth in the Symposium . . . .
--- Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
> Michael Pugliese quoted:
>
> > It should be noted that Dworkin: thinks > >
> > "there is no reason not to postulate that
> humans once were
> >androgynous -- hermaphroditic and androgynous,
> created precisely in
> >the image of the constantly recurring androgynous
> godhead" (p.176)."
> >
> > Dworkin asserts that homo sapiens was, at one
> time hermaphroditic.
> > Thus placing human beings on the level of
> flatworms. Dworkin also
> >believes in human parthenogenesis (pregnancy
> resulting from an
> >unfertilized egg - i.e.. conception without sexual
> union.) Indeed, she
> >claims parthenogenesis is a common occurrence. The
> world is littered
> >with virgin births and Athena sprouting out of
> Zeus' head.
> >She concludes:
> >
> > "Homo Sapiens is a multi-sexed species, which
> has its sexuality
> >spread along a vast fluid continuum where the
> elements called male and
> >female are not discrete" (p.183).
> >
> > Therefore there is no such thing as being male
> or female.
> >
> > Heterosexuality is Evil.
>
> I gotta say, these sectarians make Dworkin sound
> appealing. Though
> she's portrayed as a rigid ideologue, this vision of
> sexual fluidity
> is a lot more utopian than the literal-minded
> binarism of these
> alleged revolutionaries. And they prove the deep
> links between the
> need to brighten the line between the biological
> sexes and
> conventional heterosexuality. Yuck.
>
> Doug
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