tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18242406.post114246366169284900..comments2023-07-03T01:24:22.838+10:00Comments on fanthropology: Not dead!Katiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15519620972785666937noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18242406.post-25115269097683082662007-03-25T02:57:00.000+11:002007-03-25T02:57:00.000+11:00thanks for the comment, emil - i had thought that ...thanks for the comment, emil - i had thought that no one was still reading this thing! <BR/><BR/>if i might ask, how did you come across it?Katiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15519620972785666937noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18242406.post-18107363170599660162007-03-24T01:46:00.000+11:002007-03-24T01:46:00.000+11:00Idiot ? not sure ... I have seen a "gender studies...Idiot ? not sure ... <BR/><BR/>I have seen a "gender studies movie" some years ago, shown by a gender studies department: one character is put on trial by her mates for having an affair with a man; she is set against a wall and the group gathers in a semicircle, shouting questions. Now, I do not remember if the "defendant" was a positive character or not, or what was the point of the trial in the narrative economy of the movie, but the scene was (or I remember it to be) very powerful.<BR/><BR/>I think any insistence on regimentation (green vs. "industry", true geek vs. wannabe etc.) is more about creating and maintaining new hierarchies than about liberation and even organized "resistance to sexual orientation regimentation" would create a regimentation. Still, being able/allowed to choose a cause/hierarchy or to attempt to create your own is a form of liberation.<BR/><BR/>More on the point: "[i]nsistence on having a sexual orientation in sex<BR/>does defend the status quo because the unorthodox sexual orientations are build by recombining the elements of the orthodox sexual orientations, and insistence on "sex orientation" reinforces the perception that "sex orientation" is important, which is exactly what the anti-gay activists want to hear.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com