> At 03:53 PM 3/1/2009, James Heartfield wrote:
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>> My friend Pete Ray wrote this seventeen years ago, arguing that homphobia
>> is itself a myth, because it takes a social force and turns it into a
>> psychological reaction:
>>
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>
> yes. thank you. excellent piece! it's my beef, too -- and, shoot, why yes,
> i've seen a violent bigot up close and personal all irrational an' stuph. i
> almost said something but what made me laff more was that the term was
> dropped on top of a claim that suggested a kind of transhistoricality to a
> psychological phenom spanning, at least, two different cultures - and was
> justified by gesture at Foucault of all theorists. I wasn't interested in
> being serious any more. still ain't. Sorry Philip! But it looks like Doss is
> playing -- but for real $! :)
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Have I just been accused of transhistoricism by one person and historicism by another person? Something tells me that certain people don't really understand what I'm saying. Just to clear it up: I'm NOT saying that homophobia is "transhistorical", but that the social exclusion of certain groups - not just homosexuals - has been the mainspring of Western civilisation. Make of this what you will, I don't think it actually has any concrete consequences for politics, other than an oppurtunity to understand the problem more effectively. Similar ideas and arguments, as far as I'm aware - I don't read it - is coming out of "queer theory" in the US. Most notibly the philosopher Judith Butler.