From: cbcox-AT-rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu (Carrol Cox)
Subject: Re: M-TH: Toward the Abolition of Heterosexuality?
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 13:44:05 -0600 (CST)


Sheila,

I'm losing track of this thread, so I'm not speaking for/against any of
the posts on it right now, but one possible take on it is this: the
*labels* "heterosecuality" and "homosexuality" are relatively recent, and
that coinage of the labels corresponds to increasing social
self-consciousness about "manliness" and "womanliness." So
"heterosexuality" does not just mean a sexual practice, it means a
self-conscious choice to follow a certain practice. You probably wear
shoes, but I doubt that you ever think of yourself as a "shoe-wearer" in
contrast to "widget-wearers," thoughj one sees the possibility of that in
the common restaurant sign, "No shoes, not shirt, no service!"

In this sense the elimination of "heterosexuality" AND "homosexuality"
would constitute the elimination of a non-desirable form of
self-consciousness, the elimination of an (at a minimum) unnecessary
social (and potentially or actually) political and legal classification.

Does that help?

Carrol

> 
> Hi, Yoshi:  Why would the abolition of heterosexuality be a good 
> idea?  (you stated that you think it would be a good idea, but that 
> you don't think it would be a realistic ideal) I still don't 
> understand that what would be especially good about abolishing it 
> even if it were realistic rather than idealistic.   If 
> heterosexuality were abolished (assuming there's a good reason for 
> abolishing it, which I can't fathom anymore than a good reason for 
> abolishing homosexuality...)  if it *were* abolished, would there be 
> something good about continuing sexual relationships that were NOT 
> hetero?  
> 
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