Re: virus: Andro-homo-gynes
Wade T.Smith (wade_smith@harvard.edu)
Mon, 3 May 1999 12:03:44 -0400
>If social taboos keep homosexuality thriving
Well, first, this whole discussion is _way_ beyond me. I'm a poor 50's
lad with a Marilyn Monroe Complex, and, my level of even _understanding_
gender issues is practically nil. I only offered M. Gatherer's post as
evidence that _removing_ the taboo should _lower_ the reproduction rate
of homosexuals, which is a point I made, from only my own anecdotal and
observational experience, as a brief aside, which is only as far as I
wanted it to go.
I remain in complete ignorance of people who are gender wonderers. And I
know that in a situation, hot with the moment, where a homosexual event
could take place, I would not shy from it, but, in all other scenes,
every facet of me that makes sense to myself shows me more 'maleness' in
myself. I have never been gender-ignorant, and indeed, self-knowledge has
been tied, almost directly, to exploring the issues of maleness.
And I remain, also experiencially and observationally, within the
knowledge that I am attracted, in a very deep sense from the pit of my
groin, only to a woman who is equally at knowledge, or tracking that way,
with her 'femaleness'.
What does all this mean?
I don't know.
To make this even more confusing, the whole
feminist/gay/homosexual/gay/queer/androgyne/hermaphrodite/celibate/neutral/
society/biology/environment/therapy/etc... veneers on all this are, yes,
maddening.
Where is that knockwurst?