But sometimes even the aggressive giggling leads me back to an old frustration as recently prompted by hate mail linked in this post at Bitch PhD.
Why don't straight people remember that when we see a het couple on the street holding hands or kissing, we know what they "do in private" and we know that lots of that activity is deeply kinky? Why why why why why when considering the hegemonic hetersexual relationship do we think about "love" and "children" and "home" and when we think about marginalized homosexual relationshiop we think "sick" and "evil" and "kinky freaky dirty sex"? DENIAL and also BECAUSE we objectify and reify and demonize and cast into abjection The Other, who really is also all about "love" and "children" and "home" and making love in ways that are only equally as caring and kinky as we hets get up to. The Other (woman, non-whites, gays and lesibans, insert-other-du-jour-here) is always reduced to an objectified body, to sexuality/criminality/abjection because, well, shit kids, there's about 4000 books on the subject. I'll spare us the reiteration of the common knowledge. It's just soooooooo old hat. Or as Brezsny says, "Evil is a fucking bore." Because it never learns new tricks.
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