Comparative suffering

On August 15, 2014 at 12:56 am, Paul Nathanson said:

Excellent article. Too bad the author needed to explain (and implicitly apologize for) even mentioning the problems of men. Nothing will improve in relations between the sexes until we succeed in undermining identity politics, which relies on the pervasive belief in what I call “comparative suffering.” I say this for two reasons. First, there’s no reliable way to measure human suffering. Because suffering has many causes, not one, people can suffer in very different ways. Moreover, suffering is highly subjective and highly influenced by cultural expectations; it’s not quantifiable. Second, comparative suffering is inherently dehumanizing, because it allows one group to trivialize other groups and to exploit those other groups in order to score political points (that is, claiming the coveted prize of victim status). Men and women need to respect each other, not to compete with each other–and certainly not to trivialize or attack each other.

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Reverse the flow of life.

Lol. You small mind hoarding the useless treasures that weigh you down. You simple fool. That I exist at all, that I raise the Bonny Blue flag, that I say I am other than you and that when this state goes that you should be shackled and made to work like a horse until you drop dead, that I have a historical memory should be your undoing and proof that your decaying media has not erased history, but history is coming to visit you and smash this cursed union. We will say to the Northern men that to destroy you is no loss, and their women will be re-educated as biological factories to produce our offspring. We will reverse the flow of life and you will gnash your teeth.

The "expediency" of terrorism ...

The "expediency" of terrorism is still highly contentious today, but it is safe to say that who is or is not a "terrorist" seems to be determined by which side of the barricades the one making the judgement is standing. I will make no mention of the phony "War on Terrorism" being waged by the "bourgeoisie of the whole world" against the workers and peasants of the non-industrialized world by means of drones, air raids, mercenaries, apartheid walls, and military intervention and occupation.


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Tastemakers

Homo on March 8, 2015 at 8:32 pm

Speaking of the “call of the wild,” I don’t think there’s anything as natural as a man and a woman raising children together. I’m gay but I have the self awareness to realize that. Furthermore, I don’t carry the childish resentment that many feminists and lesbians have against “the patriarchy” – I think at their core most gay men are with me on that. As Camille Paglia said “Heterosexual love is in sync with cosmic forces. Not everyone has the stomach for daily war with nature.”

Your fantasy about “opening your wings” is rightly tempered by your understanding that it is “fucking lonely.” There’s many a night when I drive home from work and wish I had a wife to great me with a hot meal or one of my kids run up to the door to show me his report card. Men being men, once the sexual sizzle dies out of a relationship there’s not a whole lot to sustain it… that’s where the sustenance of filial love comes in to create a full and meaningful life through your progeny.

That said I do believe the natural eccentricity of gay men and the attendant loneliness does foster the distinct and very potent creativity you see in this population. Acceptance of homosexuality goes hand and hand with decadence; as negative as the connotation of that mode of cultural expression is I’d take it any day over a dour, repressive and overly serious theocracy… I mean Islam … the boring geometric non-representational art, the total disregard for fashion (those burqas, ugh!). Same goes for the tacky Jesus iconography and drippy sentimentalism of what passes for much mainline protestant Christianity.

America’s #1 export is its pop culture and gay men have proven to be most exquisite tastemakers in that regard… I guess I’m just saying America is successful because it does embrace it’s misfits to a degree.