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Sidebar-for the other half

"The Gays." Is that phrase typically capitalized in that fashion? For some reason it threw me for a loop.

roula

eep. did my comment disappear? testing..

roula

ok, i guess it did. i was just going to answer to sidebar -- i think it is capitalized in the same way that someone else might put it in scare-quotes. as in, HF doesn't use this phrase but maybe you'll recognize it as something that homophobes often say (especially when they are talking about gay people as though they are a cohesive social or political actor). specifically, the way many of them say stuff like "THE gays", with a definite article, not just "gay people" or even "gays". it's almost like The Reds, or something.

The Happy Feminist

That is correct!

L.

Oh, that`s a great story.

David Thompson

How young is "young"? Are we talking 5-year-olds here or what?

I think anal sex is a nasty, disgusting habit, but so is putting mayonnaise on your french fries. Some people like that shit, though, and there's no good reason to outlaw either one.

mythago

I think anal sex is a nasty, disgusting habit

Whoa, when did we switch from a discussion of ass-grabbing to one about ass-fucking?

evil_fizz

mythago, I think when the word homosexual got used.

Metal Mozart

I do not see any flaw of the arguement of your father. I have dated many girls who were molested by men and they're still straight. His suggestion that men's attraction to boys is what causes fear in our masculine dominated society. The fact that women are oppressed on a number of scales is so obvious its unseen and overlooked easily; even by your father. That doesn't disqualify his arguement on the generality of masculine thought or balance more light into the view of feminine thought. Though you probably know all this, I felt confused reading it and felt I should share this with you.

Ismone

Sorry to law geek for a while, but I had Joshua Dressler (a criminal law scholar) visit my law school. He was speaking to us about an article of his opposing a young man who had argued that non-violent homosexual passes should never be considered provocation. (Provocation means that a crime that would otherwise be murder is reduced to manslaughter--classic examples include seeing someone raping your significant other, finding your significant other cheating on you, and the like.) He analogized a gay man non-violently groping a straight man to a straight man groping a woman, which he said we would all find provoking.

I asked him why the straight man got to be the woman, and pointed out that he was importing all these assumptions about men and women by doing that, i.e., that the woman is smaller, weaker, that a man who gropes a woman may rape or otherwise physically harm her later, etc. I asked him why he didn't reverse the sexes, and have the woman be the groper and the man the victim. He then played the line for laughs, and said most men would like that. (Actually, not true as to my guy friends.)

As I told some friends after the lecture, if straight men groping straight women caused us to snap into murderous rages, I swear, the bodies would be stacked high as cordwood if we killed one out of every ten.

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