> "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
Here we are again at the crux of the matter. In the society we live---the class based society---everybody is stigmatized: What does Bush or Clinton or anybody else rate the life of a worker or soldier for? Isn't the animal in the animal farm far higher in price and rated far higher than the life of a worker. Aren't there thieves, scoundrels, criminals, feudalists, capitalits, beasts of all varieties living in the form of bipeds under the capitalist society? The crux of the matter then again is, is it is the social conditioning, the enculturation, the social system that breeds us, our views, our likings and dislikings; or something else? If it is something else, we need to find that. If it is the society, the social set-up, then despising the thief, and punishing him, is tantamount to saying that CAPITALISM IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY MISERY IN THE WORLD. Ramesh -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <../attachments/20070125/537a9a16/attachment.htm>