tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10166090.post116086983870716107..comments2024-02-17T07:59:18.705-08:00Comments on Grad Student Madness: Men on the Down Low (Note: Adult Content)Rufushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17762279210783841414noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10166090.post-1160939952206200652006-10-15T12:19:00.000-07:002006-10-15T12:19:00.000-07:00Thanks very much. I'm trying to be more thought- p...Thanks very much. I'm trying to be more thought- provoking as of late, and stop posting so many things that amount to "look at this stupid thing some conservative said! 'Aint it stupid?" <BR/><BR/>I think Judith Butler is right in a sense. She's sort of expanding Foucault's argument here. I hated the history in The History of Sexuality, but his argument is interesting. Sex goes from being "an economy of bodies and acts" to being an identity that is engraved on the soul. I think he has a conservative tendency to romanticize the past, and I think Butler might be minimizing how bad things used to be, but the economy of acts and bodies is an interesting goal to work towards.<BR/><BR/>I don't think I've ever had a gay friend who didn't get drunk and confess to me that they sometimes wanted to have sex with the opposite sex, and I haven't had too many straight friends who haven't drunkenly confessed to wanting to fool around with the same sex. Maybe we need to settle with Margaret Cho's argument: "Am I gay? Am I straight? Maybe I'm just slutty!"Rufushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17762279210783841414noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10166090.post-1160923813181460742006-10-15T07:50:00.000-07:002006-10-15T07:50:00.000-07:00I think every sociology student is introduced to t...I think every sociology student is introduced to the ‘tearoom trade’ in their first methodology course under the sub-heading of research ethics. But I prefer the context in which you are referencing it. <BR/> <BR/>Was it Butler that described "coming out" as having the opposite effect of its intended liberation/celebration? That gay and lesbian identities are still defined in terms of the dominant regime of heterosexuality thus reinforcing and binding people to categories of sexuality? <BR/><BR/>I increasingly consider sexuality to be fluid, along a continuum. And I enjoy discourse as candid as yours. A provocative and honest post Rufus, thank you.sock monkeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00079390998688740197noreply@blogger.com