Chasing ... Cutting

[Terrance Flaherty]

jbor wrote:
> 
> The constant identification of homosexuality as a sexual aberration, lumping
> it in with S&M, bondage and submission, and some or other type of
> death-as-sex instinct -- and so dismissing it as sign or symptom of "evil"
> -- which you in particular seem fond of but not exclusively so, *is* very
> close to bigotry. Again, your interpretation of the sequence relies on this
> stereotype of the 175s' "need to be imprisoned, controlled." Why are they
> any different from any other "liberated" prisoner, except for that
> homosexual label with which they have been numbered, and by which they can
> be identified as a discrete group in the text?

A stereotype, yes, as Dave was trying to demonstrate, the
text is loaded with stereotypes--- the polish undertaker,
the inscrutable Japanese, the opium eating Chinese,  and so
on. I have posted on how these stereotypes are easily
shifted from one group to the next by the powers that
be--film industry, corporate enterprise, government...and I 
mentioned this in that ridiculous crap on Chaucer, how  TRP
also works with stereotypes, deconstructing them.  I
understand that it's very different reading this book as a
non-American but cut us some slack we are not a bunch of
Marvys over here.  The S&M and so forth is in the book, I
don't think it represents evil, but religion as I have
stated a hundred times, but oh well, you entitled to your
opinion about my bigotry and homophobia and racism and all
those great american virtues but look out, my patience, as
the stereotype goes, is long, but....