[lbo-talk] Michelangelo , was Re: The sources of suffering (Grow up!) ( Was Re: Harry Potter, Metritocracy, and Reward)

[Miles Jackson]

John Thornton wrote:
> Miles if you're savvy enough to realize that the historic differences in 
> understanding sexual orientation are non-trivial one would think you 
> would also realize that Chris' question was far from meaningless.
> The analogy you draw however is deeply flawed so as to be meaningless.
> I would suggest reading the collection of works that comprise "Queering 
> the Renaissance".
> It would seem that we actually can come to a decent understanding of the 
> sexual orientation of others during Michaelangelo's time.
>
> John Thornton
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Only if we are willing to falsely impose our own sexual categories on 
societies in the past.  (The notion that people have stable sexual 
identities based on the gender of their partners is not a human universal.)

Miles