Monday, September 3, 2012
Androphilia, A Manifesto
Androphilia is a rejection of the overloaded gay identity and a return to a discussion of homosexuality in terms of desire: a raw, apolitical sexual desire and the sexualized appreciation for masculinity as experienced by men. The gay sensiblility is a near-oblivious embrace of a castrating slur, the nonstop celebration of an age-old, emasulating stimga applied to men who engaged in homosexual acts. Gays and radical queers imagine that they challenge the status quo, but in appropriating the stigma of effeminacy, they merely conform to and confirm long-established expectations. Men who love men have been paradoxically cast as the enemies of masculinity--slaves to the feminist pipe dream of a 'gender-neutral' (read: anti-male, pro-female) world.
Androphlia is a manifesto full of truly dangerous ideas: that men can have sex with men and retain their manhood, that homosexuality can be about championing a masculine ideal rather than attacking it, and that the wicked, oppressive 'construct of masculinity' despised by the gay community could actually enrich and improve the lives of homosexual and bisexual men. Androphilia is for those men who never really bought what the gay community was selling; it's a challenge to leave the gay world completely behind and to rejoin the world of men, unapologetically, as androphliles, but more importantly, as men.
More People With Issues
Rev. Salvatore Cordilione, newly appointed by Pope Benedict to be Archbishop of San Francisco, reportedly got his promotion thanks to leading the Proposition Hate (sorry, 8) charge against gay marriage. Cordilione is also recorded as having run an investigation into a Catholic group believing gays and lesbians can continue in their faith and be good Catholics. Not so, said Salvatore.
Coincidentally, he was picked up for DUI recently...
Priests and alcohol are an old story. Clergy of many different kinds and alcohol is an old story. But given the fact that Cordilione has been a crusader against gay rights, people have been referring to a classic study of RC clergy and their private lives by Robert Sipe, "A Secret World" that discusses the relationship between priestly alcohol abuse and suppression of homosexual desires. You just never know...
Speaking of Closet Cases
New questions about anti-gay Congressman Aaron Schock (R-Illinois) being gay. You can't prove it by the fact that he works on his body constantly or even that he manscrapes his chest...
What makes people REALLY wonder is the fact that he wore this outfit to a public event...
Oh, and the fact that the press caught up with him during the Republican convention in Tampa's best known gay neighborhood...
BTW, totally unrelated, here's the guy Schock refers to as his "close personal friend" -- fellow Illinois Republican Congressman Adam Kinzinger...
And a totally unsourced blind item in a notorious gossip rag...
Labor Day
In honor and appreciation of all whose work makes the world a stronger and better place...
Sunday, September 2, 2012
Saturday, September 1, 2012
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)