The post-structuralism of gay/lesbian theory had never crossed my mind until I read the Barry this week and the attempt of these theorists to "desexualize" and show that opposites don't necessarially attract (137).
This movement does need to be asexual for it to have any weight. This is why the news showing hand holding, flamboyant homosexuals are not helping this movement at all. I mean, as we all know, the media is corrupted by right wingers who want nothing to do with queer theory or the sub-culture at all so the pictures are there for that purpose only. This school of theory (which this is my first introduction to) will not have much success at all until the movement is truly desexualized and reverted back to the original form of analyzing female relationships with females and male relationships with males.
Will we be able to stay scholarly this week in our class discussion with such a hot topic of theory?
...dum dum dummmmmm.
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I think when we stop focusing so much on the differences, we will inevitably find the commonalities. The struggles of the minorities (women, Blacks, gays, etc) are very similar to each other, and they (we) would find more strength if they (we) came together as one. I think the discussion in class is going to be great ... nothing gets people more excited than subjects that sometimes make them uncomfortable and reveal more about themselves than they'd like to.
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