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

Michael Smith mjs at smithbowen.net
Tue Sep 25 14:50:33 PDT 2007


On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 17:02 -0400, Charles Brown wrote:


> is it possible that he, like the ancient Greeks that we're all
> supposed to admire so much, doesn't see homosexual people as existing
> as much as homosexual _behaviors_ that some engage in?

This was exactly Yoshie's original point, if I understood her correctly.


> Of course, I'd guess that the state represses gays & Lesbians in Iran,
> no matter what Ahmadinejad's theoretical vision is.

No doubt. It's rather a global phenomenon, isn't it? Apart from the Netherlands.



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