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Avatar: 24791 2010-03-21 18:12:06 -0400
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That’s the point man man, if sexuality is a spectrum then really “homosexual” and “heterosexual” and “bisexual” aren’t as clear cut as it seems, and when you actually start to go in deeper the waters ARE muddy. (Not to mention how the power of these simple “labels” affect the life of millions).

All these discussions, all these meanings of the word…filter into the law and into the jurisprudence. As do the stereotypes that come as a consequence from the social construction.

The fact that different societies and throughout history different cultures haven’t all had a word like “homosexual” or “bisexual” to define people based on certain same-sex conduct shows how a large part of it IS a social construction.

And again what is homosexual – is it the act with someone else? If it is just the act, what about people that do the act and don’t consider themselves homosexual? What about people that consider themselves homosexual but have never had any homosexual interaction on a physical level?

What about men that turn themselves into women and date other women but don’t consider themselves homosexual and consider themselves straight? I guess you could be extremist and put everything into categories of categories, but that kind of misses the subtlety of human interaction and thought process.

Sorry man-man but your oversimplifications hold no water and hows your lack of education on the subject. Essentialism in its purest form, just like social construction… is a logical fallacy. Real life falls somewhere in the middle.

Homosexual is not just ‘a word’ describing ‘a sex act’; it is a term laden with meaning. In fact when using the word, most people immediately envision gay males – not lesbians (lesbians and bisexuals are largely ignored in this discourse, especially bisexuals precisely because they represent the uncomfortable truth about labels).

This sums it up pretty well, speaking on Foucault

”... The point of critiquing gay identity was not to disqualify it, or to do away with sexual labels altogether, or to advocate some avant-garde suspension of all sexual meaning and all sexual categories. Rather, the point of critiquing gay identity was to open the way to the formation new multiplicities of gay identities which the insistence on a singular, already established and defined gay identity served to impede.”

elenaratelimit edited this message on 09/20/2009 8:36PM
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