[lbo-talk] Nepal gays and Maoists/Marxist Approach

[Miles Jackson]

joanna wrote:
> "I'd say this is a major motif in discussions about sex in our society: 
> our sexual activity is supposed to express some deep, immutable, 
> essential component of who we are.  Witness the stigmatization of 
> bisexuals: they get as much (if not more!) social censure from gays as 
> they do from hets because "they can't make up their minds". "
> 
> It's not so  much censure as a "this does not compute" look.
> 
> Joanna

yeah, actually, that's more accurate: it's so disconnected from the 
social norms about having a stable, coherent sexual identity that many 
people are flummoxed.  It just doesn't fit.

Miles