>Aside from that, it is quite understandable that Ezekiel felt stiff
>competition from Egyptian, Assyrian, Babylonian, and other men of
>North Africa and West Asia.
>
>As Jean Genet, Michel Foucault, Juan Goytisolo, and so on made clear
>through their lives, that's the axis
>of male beauty.
Stiff competition? heh. Are you saying Genet et. al. weren't capable of sharing in the same idealizations as those who felt threatened? (Goytisolo is still alive by the way).;