The Art of Loving Pg 31:
"The homosexual deviation is a failure to attain this polarized union, and thus the homosexual suffers from the pain of never resolved separateness; a failure, however, which he shares with the average heterosexual who cannot love."
So what are you saying? I can't love because I can't be straight. Being straight is not the goal. I Don't strive for it, because I'm simply not interested. These heterosexist books make me mad for this reason. The author is so completely disconnected from the experience of a homosexual, how dare he tries to talk about something he has no knowledge of himself.
Homosexuality is not a failure, in my opinion it is a success. The success is of truly finding yourself and what can bring you the most genuine love. It is hard to be honest and be yourself when you live in a heteronormative world which constantly encourages straight behavior, while chastising any deviation from that norm.
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Ahoy! This is just a comment on your blog as a whole, I find it really interesting. I was especially surprised with the one about the tribes who took drugs and had orgies.
ReplyDeleteYeah. They were smart back then, they knew how to alleviate the alienation they felt. In our modern culture, that alienation and lack of community is only stronger so it is not surprising to me that similar methods would be used to create community or sustain people, so that they don't get completely cut off. The drugs and the orgies are really there to maintain sanity, preventing someone from disconnecting entirely.
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