Date: Tue, 31 Mar 1998 20:30:33 -0500
From: Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1-AT-osu.edu>
Subject: Re: M-TH: Picking up the Pieces


Boddhi:
>	Your problem is that you replace one set of norms with another.
>It is by no means contradictory to predict that the future for humans is
>majority heterosexual and to say that the idea of sexual "destiny' is
>invalid in a compassionate world.

You obviously don't understand the words 'heterosexual' and 'destiny.'
Heterosexuality as we know it as institution/naturalized norm posits
heterosexuality as 'destiny.' I am saying that heterosexuality as such an
institution/naturalized norm/destiny shall disappear.

Make a distinction between heterosexuality as institution/naturalized norm
*and* what an individual man and an individual woman may choose to do
sexually.

>You are simply replacing the hetero
>norm with a gay/bi one.

No, I am not. There won't be one normative sexual identity to which people
will be asked to conform. Neither hetero nor 'gay'/'bi'.

>You've said that you feel women are hetero
>because they are locked into it through culture.

No, I have not. I am not a culturalist.

>However, the "evidence" does seem
>to be on the hetero side of the argument if only by dint of a sizeable
>majority.

Are people who stick to one gender at all levels of sexual
practices/identities/fantasies/etc. throughout their lives really a
"sizable" majority? Even now, they probably are a minority. Don't you read
Kinsey? But the point is that if you deviate from the norm, you are asked
to stay in the closet now. It won't be like this when there is no
heterosexism.

>If the pressure of bourgeois
>identity-fetish forces people to make a choice simply because they don't
>fit in, it seems just as likely that they have been forced into staking
>out a homosexual identity just to have a little peace. In a compassionate
>society that choice would be unnecessary.

Right. That is why heterosexuality as "identity-fetish" shall disappear.

Yoshie




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