[lbo-talk] Clash of Sexual Civilizations (was Re: ahmadinejad)

[Miles Jackson]

Doug Henwood wrote:
> On Sep 25, 2007, at 8:28 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
>
>   
>> But a majority of Iranians, apparently including their
>> President, have not adopted the idea of sexual orientations, nor have
>> much of the rest of the Third World.
>>     
>
> How do you know that's what Ahmadinejad meant? It wouldn't surprise  
> me if he was simploy denying that there are men in Iran who suck cock  
> and women who munch box. You think the engineer-president is up on  
> comparative queer theory?
>
>   
Ahmadinejad doesn't need to know anything about queer theory to make 
this claim; he just needs to have grown up in a nonwestern society that 
does not link sexual behavior to a stable sexual identity.  (In fact, in 
the context of the culture in which he was socialized, the bizarre thing 
would be for him to claim that there are homosexuals.)

Miles