Date: Tue, 31 Mar 1998 18:35:38 -0500 From: Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1-AT-osu.edu> Subject: Re: M-TH: Re:Porn Jerry wrote: >2) we don't know what free human beings, unenchained from capitalist >social relations, will choose in terms of sexual preference and/or >orientation. These humans of the future are as different from us as we are >from the apes. We can not know what they will choose and desire. Very true, but we can predict what they are not likely to favor under communism, and among the unlikely things, I include heterosexuality as we know it as coercive institution and naturalized norm. Without homosexuals/bisexuals who are made out to be "abnormal," there is no point in saying that heterosexuality is "normal." Probably there won't be much point in identifying ourselves as hetero- or bi- or homo-sexuals either. With this distinction's disappearance or becoming meaningless, people's other real and complex differences will be recognized. Among those differences, sticking to one's biological sex in search of sexual partners/love interest/fantasies/etc. throughout one's life without any deviation will be one preference among many--a very minority taste. >Aside to Yoshie: sometimes I get the impression that you think you are >speaking for the interests of all women. You get this impression because there are few women here, and the women who are here and post regularly (Nancy and now Li Trahn) sometimes agree with me (especially on the question of gender) but often don't (especially in the case of Nancy about labor, class, etc.). You want to hear a variety of voices speaking as women, you got to bring more women here. >I think a great many of those >women that you claim to speak for, including many progressive women, would >object to your -- unfounded -- assertion that heterosexuality among women >will become a minority preference. They may or may not. Why not bring such women here? I would love to argue with them. More interesting than arguing with *men who claim to speak for women who would disagree with me*! Yoshie --- from list marxism-thaxis-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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